Saturday, January 27, 2018

The Best Laid Plans (a Steve Orr Epiphany reflection)

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"The best laid schemes of mice and men go oft astray" wrote poet Robert Burns. My experience agrees. It hasn't put me off sc...
Saturday, January 13, 2018

A Life Lesson While Learning to Drive (a Steve Orr Epiphany reflection)

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When the light turned green, I just sat there. It’s was less than a month to my 16th birthday. Mom had become my driving instructor (this ...
Saturday, January 6, 2018

Following the Star to ... Nazareth?! (a Steve Orr Epiphany reflection)

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The Wise Men never made it to Bethlehem. Wait. What?! In the Sony animated Christmas film, The Star (which was delightful), some talkin...
Saturday, December 30, 2017

So ... Now What? (a Steve Orr Lectionary reflection)

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I imagine that was the question that came to mind the next morning. The baby was born ... and had spent a portion of its young life in the...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

Revisiting The Wild Bunch (a Steve Orr Advent reflection)

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“...just some bad people we know killing some bad people we don't know ." That’s what Roger Ebert said when he reviewed the mov...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

For Sale: Baby Shoes (a Steve Orr Advent reflection)

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Hemingway wrote a short story on a napkin to settle a bar bet ... supposedly. Maybe that’s true, and maybe it’s not. The story goes like t...
Saturday, December 9, 2017

Revisiting An Unfinished Christmas (a Steve Orr Advent reflection)

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It was a Christmas we would never forget. I was no older than the first grade. I remember my mother taking us downtown so we could watch t...