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Lent 4

Sailing ships on the Mediterranean Sea in the Middle Ages had no radios. No binoculars. And no GPS devices.       So, what was a navigator to do? Use a portolan chart. Hand-drawn and often quite colorful, these charts were written on vellum, an animal skin that had been prepared by cleaning, bleaching and stretching. The charts […]

Lent 3

Back in 1980, former New York Yankee baseball player and manager Billy Martin wrote an autobiography titled NUMBER 1.  In one excerpt, he said that he and teammate Mickey Mantle were doing a little hunting down in Texas during one off-season. Mickey had a friend who would let him hunt on his ranch. When they […]

Lent 1

Now that we can watch all of our favorite shows on DVR, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, or any one of a zillion ways, we no longer have the experience we used to have, of watching something and then turning to a friend and saying, “What did he say?”, “What was that mumble?” or […]

Ash Wednesday

A little boy had just returned home from an Ash Wednesday church service. The little girl from next door asked him what the smudge was on his forehead. He replied, “It’s Ash Wednesday.” “What’s Ash Wednesday?” she asked. “Oh,” he replied, “It’s when Christians begin their diet.” Ash Wednesday is about more than giving up […]

Last Epiphany

When I was a kid, I ate chocolate donuts for breakfast.  That may have been one reason I had a 36-inch waist by the time I was in 6th grade. So it was not easy to find pants for me.  We would shop in the husky section of the boys’ department but could not always […]

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