New Blogs to Check Out

May 22, 2008

I’ve been following a few new blogs that I wanted to let you all know about:

Fr Patrick’s Weblog: I first met Fr Patrick in Idaho, when his beard was significantly shorter, and we met each other for coffee pretty regularly. We had some really wonderful conversations and it was an honor to be able to [...]

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Take This Bread: A Review

April 10, 2008

I just finished reading Sara Miles’s “Take This Bread” last night. I always love reading spiritual memoirs, and this one is great - very much in the spirit of Anne Lamott’s “Traveling Mercies.” Miles’s conversion is very similar to Lamott’s, who just happened to find herself in a church one day. While Miles wasn’t under [...]

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A Night in York in Three Acts

January 31, 2008

Today’s blog post comes in three acts (yes, I’ve been listening to some This American Life podcasts). These are all stories from our trip to New York City yesterday. Act One begins in a coffee shop.

Act One: Mud and Reconciliation
After Sarah and I got off the train, we headed over to the Lower East Side [...]

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Julie Clawson on the Kingdom of God

January 30, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from Julie Clawson:
The Kingdom of God is like a well-cooked Italian meal. Now it might seem a bit strange to start off a reflection comparing the Kingdom of God to Italian food, but I recently stumbled upon [...]

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The West Bank meets Clifton, NJ

September 29, 2005

Last night I had a great opportunity to eat Palestinian food again! A few nights ago, I received a phone call from my friend Nidal (pictured with me on the left) and he let me know he was in Clifton, NJ. Nidal lived two floors above me in Beit Sahour, in the West Bank this [...]

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Why not eat sheep stomach?

July 6, 2005

Why not? I mean, that’s really the question. Why would anyone choose NOT to eat sheep stomach, intestines or brain? There are times when I wish you could communicate smells over a blog - this is one of those times. Sheep stomach has a very…well, I should say, unique smell to it (again, I have [...]

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Eating like a local…

June 11, 2005

So, my stomach is still doing very good. And since I have an 8+ hour busride tomorrow to St. Katherine’s Monastery, I decided to play it safe and eat something I knew would be okay, instead of a shewarma that turned out to be sketchy…
So I sucked it up, and went into the Hardees at [...]

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