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Lessons for Restless Souls from Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
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Kristina Robb-Dover
An audio version of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises has been keeping me company in the car; and has convinced me that Hemingway was a restless soul, too (by “restless,” I mean another soul looking for more purpose, more truth and more life). Set in post-World War 1 Paris, the book tells the story…
“O Holy Night”
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Kristina Robb-Dover
We sang this hymn in church today. In the wake of Friday morning’s massacre of a first-grade class of school children, the meaning of “O Holy Night” made me cry like a baby. (Never mind my husband’s running joke that I cry at road kill.) Jesus was born into the very same dark world. When…
Visio Divina (The Visual Word): An Advent Series
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Starting tomorrow we’re in for a treat. That’s when we’ll begin a special Advent series featuring the photography of the very talented, fellow saint and sinner Katie Archibald-Woodward. (Just think: we’ll get to say that we knew Katie before she became famous; and I’ll be able to boast that I grew up miles from her…
Wacky Wednesday: Villainy and Veneration
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Kristina Robb-Dover
First, villainy… By way of an addendum to my recent review of the new James Bond flick, fellow saint and sinner Michael Frost has shared a wonderful resource: The Ultimate James Bond Fansite. If you’ve ever entertained the notion of being one of Bond’s arch-villains or femme fatales, you’ll find your favorites here. (For me it’s…
Augustine Tweets for Restless Souls
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Kristina Robb-Dover
I’m convinced that if he lived today, the early church father, Augustine, would like Twitter and I would be one of his followers. Augustine once said of the God he worshiped: “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” I love that quote. For one thing, it tweets. For another, familiarity can breed endearment: I hear…
Nature and Grace
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Kristina Robb-Dover
If you read yesterday’s sermon, you may have caught some refrains on this theme. The picture I mentioned of the leopard snuggling with a baby antelope might almost pass as a Hallmark card, were it not for the fact that within the hour the antelope will become the leopard’s grisly lunch. But, that picture speaks to…
Then God Said “Let It Be Messy”
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Church planter and professor A.J. Swoboda has a book out, and it’s worth a read. My review of Swoboda’s book, which aired today in the Episcopal Church’s very helpful, ecumenical publication, Sermons That Work (http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com), is reprinted in full below with the permission of The Episcopal Digital Network: I once thought that being a Christian meant…
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