Swimming with George Washington The Creek that is a 10-minute walk from my grandma’s house in rural Maryland is the same one in which General George Washington and his soldiers skinny-dipped. I know this for a fact about George and his boys stopping at Wills Creek because they are mentioned in The Biography of Benjamin
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How George the Iguana Converted the Preacher There I was: the clergy guy, officiating at the first-ever blessing of the animals in our church, but doing so much against my will. It wasn’t that I disliked animals. I had grown up with dogs, cats, birds, and tropical fish in our house. It was just that
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The Most Unforgettable Person I’ve Ever Met:My Grandma Bennett Although the descendant of Scotch-Irish Christians of the sterner variety, my maternal, Appalachian grandmother, Clara, knew how to smile. There she is in that 1902 family photograph of some 25 members of my familial forebears, from my great-great grandparents on down to my grandmother’s generation. It
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Mrs. Rector, our Cub Scout Den Mother, had no idea that her darling little boy Ronnie was prime material for the Ten Most Wanted Criminals poster. But he was. In fact, he and a couple of our fellow Cubs, Alex Kozar and Jimmy Jenkins, were potentials for that list as well. All three boys were
Confessions Of A Polyamorous Ghost Lover In Honor of All Souls Day According to recent polls, 41-61 percent of the US populace believe that ghosts exist, and 20 percent indicate they have personally encountered a ghost. Psychologists tell us that some people are affected by factors that make them prone to being human-ghost lovers. For
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Illusion? Reality? In Between? In the very earliest of time… a person could become an animal if he wanted to and an animal could become a human being… and there was no difference. All spoke the same language. That was the time when words were like magic. The human mind had mysterious powers… and what
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From his new novel: First Church: Spiritual Wokism in the Pews Today We decided we would go to the Halloween party together: I, a senior gay white male liberal minister, and she, a lesbian Anglo/Native American New Age flower child experiencing her early-fifties. She was also the church’s religious education director. Her name was Fred.
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A Small Reflection I was already retired from a nearly 40-year career as a minister when I learned the truth. It came in an email from the nephew who told me that his uncle, my minister when I was a kid, had been a gay man who was “outed” only after he had died in
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Part Three There are 104 countries which celebrate Mother’s Day; 77 of them (including the U.S. and Mexico) celebrate the day in May. It is a good thing to do, but I have always felt that the day should also include honoring the various women in our lives who have made a significant impact on
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Part Two There are 104 countries which celebrate Mother’s Day; 77 of them (including the U.S. and Mexico) celebrate the day in May. It is a good thing to do, but I have always felt that the day should also include honoring the various women in our lives who have made a significant impact on
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