Sunday, August 27, 2017

Killing Babies for Pharaoh (a Steve Orr Lectionary reflection)

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When Puah and Shiphrah chose midwifery as a career, it's unlikely they had nation-building in mind. Two ordinary women, Hebrew midwive...
Saturday, August 19, 2017

Running With the Little Dogs (a Steve Orr Lectionary reflection)

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There seems to be a preoccupation, these days, with being the focus of all; being the people everyone thinks about, being the main topic of ...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

No Surrender! (a Steve Orr Lectionary reflection)

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When Japan surrendered in August 1945, World War II came to an end ... but not for everyone. Dropping atomic bombs on two Japanese citie...
Saturday, August 5, 2017

The Impossible Task (a Steve Orr Lectionary reflection)

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It was an impossible task ... or so it seemed to my still-new-to-high-school brain. The task : Decorate our homeroom door in a Christmas h...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Seize the Day! (a Steve Orr Lectionary reflection)

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Carpe Diem! It conjures up thoughts of champions; rugged individualists, explorers of the unknown, captains of industry. Maybe we recall ...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

The Gods of Summer (a Steve Orr Lectionary reflection)

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In the summer of 1962, I encountered a god. OK, to be fair, it was a comic book god, but the encounter was pretty thrilling nonetheless. ...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Little House on the Prairie? (a Steve Orr Lectionary reflection)

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I am sitting in my seat in class; it's just after lunch. My arms are on my desk and my head is on my arms. At the same time, I am also s...