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The reading of Ephesians 5 in church, the part about husbands and wives, always amuses me. Some of the women in the congregation stiffen or frown when they hear: “Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is head of the church … so
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“Ephphatha,” the priest explained during the recent baptism of a grandson, is Aramaic for “Be opened.” The word occurs in Mark 7:33-34, where some people in a crowd brought a deaf man with a speech impediment to Jesus for healing. And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and
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In Paul Clayton’s collection of short stories, “Seeing Sunny Again,” we meet Carl Melcher. It’s the early 1960s, and Carl, who will enter high school in a week or so, has spent the summer hanging out on a beach longing without success to find a girlfriend. On this particular evening, he decides to try his
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In 2014, I was a prompter for a local homeschool poetry festival. With copies of all the poems to be recited, from pre-K kids to highschoolers, I sat in the front row, ready to provide a word or a line from the poem if someone on stage lost their train of thought. That evening, I
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