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A Sawyer’s Thanksgiving: In Gratitude for ERs, Post-hole Diggers and Stupid Luck
Dear Net Zero Enthusiasts: I must be the most unreliable blogger in all of Creation anyway, but today you might as well know why it’s been an unusually long stretch since you’ve heard from me. Let’s just put it this way—there are several immutable commandments woven...
Things I Should’ve Known, Especially Today
How will/did you spend Martin Luther King Jr. Day?!? Last blog I was just learning my ancestors owned slaves. For MLK 2022 I’m sharing some facts of Black History I’ve learned way too recently, things this Old White Guy should’ve known way before now, but I just...
Epiphany A Year Later—Time to Unmute!
Today is January 6, a date etched in our national memory now as much as 9-11. Many don’t know January 6 is also Epiphany—a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something Our grandson Jackson is 3 1/2. ...
Thank You Grandpa!
Kathleen Dean Moore writes, in A Pine Island Paradox, “The most loving thing you can say to...
You Are A Marvel!
How do we make this world worthy of our children? I’m sure we’d all like to know. The way we’re...
Imago Dei
Several times already we’ve had the privilege of rising early and taking the little guy from his...
Jackson, Tell Me About God
Our first grandchild was born July 12 and the whole universe blinked. This is the first I’ve...
Creating A Disturbance—Let Our People Go!
Last Thursday I was arrested. Along with 21 other Oregon clergy and faith leaders I received two...
The Road To Sheridan: Love Leads Us
At 11am last Sunday morning, June 24th, 2018, we worshipped at the Federal...
“The Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer”
About this time, each spring, I get Wendell Berry’s collection of poems, Farming: A Handbook, from...
Net Zero Intolerance: This was supossted to be Land of the Free
I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to...
The King of Compost Challenges the Rat
Straight to the point: something was missing in the depths of my soul on this new place, until we...
C-O-M-P-O-S-T: My Latest (De)Composition
I’d like you to hear my new compost song. But it needs an intro. Erin’s wife, Amy, our newest...
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