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Tribute to Stephen Philbrick on the Occasion of Twenty Years in Ministry

this is the original version of the abbreviated tribute I gave this....

November 30, 2014

Justice

Returning to Langston: Poems of Our Times

When I preached on the Sunday a week after Mike Brown was murdered in Ferguson,....

November 29, 2014

Chaplaincy

Forget the Blessings (poetry)

for T.C. Forget pious blessing chatter. The nice-nice that assures polite....

October 15, 2014

Poems

Metal May Well Revert (poetry)

I am posting this poem here, as my dear friend's mother died last night.  I....

October 8, 2014

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