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I know you, you know me One thing I can tell you is you got to be free Come together right now over me — The Beatles (“Come Together” from Abby Road © 1969) One life But were not the same We get to carry each other — U2 (“One” from Achtung Baby © 1991) [...]

Every now and then I seem to dream these dreams Where the mute ones speak and the deaf ones sing Touching that miraculous circumstance Where the blind ones see and the dry bones dance – Mark Herd (“The Dry Bones Dance” from Dry Bones Dance, 1990) God told Ezekiel to prophecy to the bones. He [...]

Too often we make the resurrection only a matter of apologetics and melt the resurrection accounts down into an ingot of doctrine. — Eugene H. Peterson (Christ Plays in Ten Thousand places) Zoroastrianism is a religion based in Persia—modern day Iran. Statistically speaking, the percentage of Zoroastrians in the world today is slim. However, in the [...]

Hear the wind moan In the bright diamond sky These mountains are waiting Brown-green and dry I’m too old for the term But I’ll use it anyway I’ll be a child of the wind Till the end of my days — Bruce Cockburn (“Child of the Wind” from Nothing But A Burning Light, 1991) Do [...]