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Because writing an allegory in place of an application essay is a tad left of plumb, I wrote a postscript to the story that begins here. This is it. I hope I can be forgiven for this unconventional essay. It is probably obvious that I am deeply passionate about storytelling. In thinking about how best [...]
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The is the third, and last, part of my application “essay” to seminary. Part 1 here. Part 2 here. The girl heard more of the Story than ever she had before, out of the Way among the native tribes. Around every ceremonial fire, on every feast day, in every high place and low place, she [...]
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Here is Part 2 of my seminary application “essay.” Part 1 here. There came an age when many Storytellers had less room for mystery in their hearts than in ages past. The paradox of the Story that is also the Way weighed heavy upon them, and they came to believe that the Tribe should choose [...]
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Well, I’ve finally gotten around to applying to seminary. I’m excited. And terrified. I haven’t been accepted yet; I just popped everything in the mailbox this morning. I’ll let you know when I hear the good (or possibly bad) news. Until then, I thought you might enjoy the “essay” I wrote as part of the [...]
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I’m part of a church community that takes communion (that’s the Eucharist for all you Anglo-Catholics) on the first Sunday of every month. As I understand it, this is pretty common practice in American evangelical churches. Even though I love many other things about my church, most of them being the people, I wish it [...]
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It’s difficult to piece together what exactly happened a few days after the good man was executed. (And if what happened was what the man’s followers claimed happened, this difficulty makes a good bit of sense: It’s not as if dead people came back to life at the drop of a hat in first-century Palestine, [...]
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We don’t know much about what went on the day after the good man died—actually, we don’t know anything, if we’re using a definition of the word “know” that involves textbooks, microscopes and math. On the other hand, the people who experienced the horror of the good man’s death were people, and we know a [...]
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