Author Archives: Boz

Grace: Advent Word 5

Posted on December 7, 2023 by Boz

I delight in volubility and could write thousands of words on the idea of grace, so antithetical to American culture beginning with our Puritan forefathers and continuing right through the rugged individuals of the frontier. However, I also delight in … Continue reading →

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Peace: Advent Word 4B

Posted on December 6, 2023 by Boz
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Peace: Advent Word 4

Posted on December 6, 2023 by Boz

Give Peace a Chance? Most Advent meditations have no need of a trigger warning, but here goes: If you’re expecting warm fuzzies, you should make a peace sign and hum a few bars of “Kumbaya.” My thoughts as I pondered … Continue reading →

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Presence: Advent Word 3

Posted on December 5, 2023 by Boz

In an argument that has informed my efforts to understand God ever since I first read it, Walter T. Stace wrote, “Either God is a mystery, or he is nothing at all.” However, it seems that some of the attributes … Continue reading →

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Hidden: Advent Word 2

Posted on December 4, 2023 by Boz

Metaphor was my guide as I pondered today’s assigned word. First, my thoughts strayed to one of the Bible verses I memorized as a girl in Sunday school. It was the very early 1960s in a very Protestant church, so … Continue reading →

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Wind: Advent Word 1

Posted on December 3, 2023 by Boz

Christina Rossetti, the fervent proponent of High Anglicanism who gave us #112 in the Episcopal hymnal, the haunting carol “In the Bleak Midwinter,” also wrote the brief poem below, often anthologized for children: Who has seen the wind? Neither I … Continue reading →

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United in Grief and Patriotism: The Memory of a 10-Year-Old Girl

Posted on November 22, 2023 by Boz

What were you doing 60 years ago today? (If twinkling somewhere in a galaxy far, far away, don’t bother to reply.)

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The Evening and the Morning

Posted on July 27, 2023 by Boz

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second … Continue reading →

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Relationships in Red Ink: 50 Years

Posted on July 22, 2023 by Boz

My relationships with red ink have been myriad and complicated.

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Russell Banks: 1940-2023 (Actually, Immortal)

Posted on January 28, 2023 by Boz

Browsing the “Books and Arts” section of the Wall Street Journal today (matutinal guilty pleasure #2, close on the heels of “Opinion”), I glanced at a small headline in the lower left-hand corner, revealing the death of Russell Banks. I didn’t read … Continue reading →

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