Dave
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Named and Naming
With university student pliability they rolled out of the van. They’d come for a week of conversation with valley ranchers, spiritual guides, farmers, and Tribal politicians. Our work today was to talk about the valley’s history, politics, religion, spirit, hurt, joy and… Continue reading
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Quiet Talk
Three of them sat around the afternoon fire talking. Sometime ago he had taken a thirty-six-inch tractor rim and set it in the ground. As the two of them talked he watched the fire. Noticing that as the rim heated, the ground around… Continue reading
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Sensible Theology
Theologians have long worked to develop theology to explain the unexplainable. A few have done reasonable work and made it accessible. Yet to do so is getting harder. In part, because we are losing our grounded-ness. When were we last able to describe the… Continue reading
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Winter Settles
When winter arrives, as it has, place settles. Quiet no longer moves across the landscape. Quiet is. Over the years a path has been worn between the house and the winter water trough. It is walked many times during the summer. During the winter… Continue reading
Chewing the Cud 