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Dog Years

January 26, 2023 by David Anderson 4 Comments

Our granddog is sick. Almost a year ago, Eloise was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and underwent radiation therapy. The tumor shrank and her seizures could be controlled with medication. My daughter Sharon and her husband Anthony hoped their beloved French Bulldog, now seven years old, might make it to eight or nine. This […]

Filed Under: Death/Dying, Healing, Mystery, Suffering

The God I Don’t Believe In

May 20, 2014 by David Anderson 9 Comments

Last week I heard Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, the writer and scholar of the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah, interviewed on the radio. He told a story that I haven’t forgotten. Rabbi Kushner was invited to a dinner for a class of young people preparing for their bar or bat mitzvah. Classes completed, they had come […]

Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Belief, Faith/Trust, Love, Mystery

“What kind of bread is this?”

March 31, 2014 by David Anderson 7 Comments

Giving people communion—as any clergy will tell you—is one of the blessed gifts of ministry. People come to receive the life of God in all of their humanness. They stream to the altar, the hopeful and harried, the world-beaters and the unemployed, the believers and skeptics alike. I walk down the line and here are […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Mystery, Seeing

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