This year, for the first time in decades, an otter was spotted in the Cuyahoga River in Northeast Ohio. After a history of pollution and neglect made famous by the 1969 fire that in many ways resulted in the environmental movement, enough fish had returned to a stretch of the river that otters could again …
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the last Episcopalian
"Monks are accustomed to taking the long view," writes Kathleen Norris as she describes a massive storm slowly lumbering towards a monastery on the open prairie in Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. Whether in storms or sunshine, the spiritual life means making our way through a very different - and far more patient - time horizon. …
the missing manual
If I could set my time machine back about twelve years when I became the pastor of a church for the first time, I'd pack the missing manual that I could have used back then. I've had wonderful mentors and teachers and colleagues and parishioners who along the way, supported me as I became priest, …
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