Category: stories
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easter from different angles: 5
I’m really enjoying posting these Easter reflections from different friends. Today’s thoughts come from Sherri Owens. I met Sherri when we were students at Montreat College. She used to come around Howerton Hall and join a few regulars to kick the hacky-sack around. Yes, hacky-sack. Yes, I was good. Sherri was good too. Here’s her…
David Swanson
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easter from different angles: 4
Thom Fredericks is the next amigo to consider the question, “Why does Easter matter to you?” I can always count on conversations with Thom to be challenging and deeply encouraging. I think you’ll get a glimpse of that here. I’m not really sure what Thom’s “real” job is, but he’s got serious skills with a…
David Swanson
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shopping at a Muslim grocery store
I’d like to point out a lovely story from a fellow Chicago-land blogger. Catherine keeps the very well-written Everyday Life as Lyric Poetry. Yesterday she described her experience checking out her neighborhood Halal grocery store. The husband graciously gave me a tutorial on meat that is Halal which, including my follow up questions and considering…
David Swanson
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easter from different angles: 3
Wayne Stapleton is the next to answer the question, “Why does Easter matter to you?” Until a few months ago Wayne and his wife worked as houseparents for the same organization where Maggie works. A few months back Wayne took a job as a pastor at Grace Community Church in Detroit. I’ve never been to…
David Swanson
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easter from different angles: 2
Next up to answer the question, “Why does Easter matter to you?” is my aunt Tammy. Tammy is my dad’s sister, a good friend, wife to my hilarious uncle Kelly, mother to Mike and Dave, one of the people Maggie most laughs with, and the Senior Pastor of First Covenant Church in Mason City, Iowa.…
David Swanson
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