Guest Contributor
- Nov 24, 2020
- 3 min
A Year of Gratitude
Many of my friends have decided that the year 2020 is a no good, awful, bad, terrible year. I’m not saying it’s been a walk in the park,...
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Guest Contributor
- Nov 18, 2020
- 3 min
We Need More Light
The first day after Daylight Saving Time ended, it got dark at 4:30. I sat at my desk, finally getting something done, aghast as the lig...
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Guest Contributor
- Nov 10, 2020
- 3 min
Nothing is Wasted
My faith doesn’t answer many questions, and sometimes it raises more questions than I desire. But it does also give me Someone to trust ...
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Guest Contributor
- Nov 3, 2020
- 3 min
Here We Are
Here we are I am writing this on Tuesday, cognizant that Wednesday’s coming, and Thursday after that. I am also fairly certain that what...
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Guest Contributor
- Oct 22, 2020
- 2 min
The Key to Wisdom
The great Sufi master Mullah Nasruddin was on his hands and knees searching for something under a streetlamp. A man saw him and asked, "W...
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Guest Contributor
- Oct 20, 2020
- 3 min
Make This Your List
Recently, at the end of a day packed with zoom calls and other meetings, with little or no space between things, I came home and announce...
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Guest Contributor
- Sep 29, 2020
- 3 min
In Awe of Awful Days
Are you having awful days? I have heard people speak that way about 2020, about the world, about this semester. Awful. There is truth he...
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Guest Contributor
- Sep 22, 2020
- 3 min
Find Something Old
What gives you perspective? As Covid numbers rise on campus, as giants of justice and progress—like John Lewis and Ruth Bader Ginsburg—d...
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Guest Contributor
- Sep 15, 2020
- 3 min
Upside-Down Faith
The story goes that when I was a toddler, my favorite view was to put my head between my feet and look at the world upside down. Apparen...
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Guest Contributor
- Sep 8, 2020
- 3 min
Numbering Our Days
I am writing this on a Friday and have abruptly realized that, perhaps for the first time in my professional life, I count down to Frida...
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Guest Contributor
- May 15, 2020
- 2 min
Behar - Bechukotai
In this week's Torah portion, Behar - Bechukotai, the last Torah portion for the book of Leviticus, God tells Moses to speak to the Israe...
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Joel Harter
- May 12, 2020
- 3 min
Finding Today's Haystack of Light
"Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight..." –Mary Oliver
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