... am a firm believer in the power of "naming." You see, I am a twin, and my twin brother and I are known as Jack and Jim. The story goes that during his time in India in the Second World War, the great joke among Dad and his friends was his intention to ... sufficient for all our needs. A circle of grace for Dorothy, for you and for me. One of my favorite theologians is Garrison Keillor, with his Prairie Home Companion and his tales from Lake Wobegon. Keillor tells the story of the Krugers. It seems in seventh ...
... are as fragile as the world we inhabit. Who was not shocked a few years back by the death of that wonderfully creative man, Jim Henson, mastermind behind the Muppets? A minor infection ”or so he thought. It was a weekend. He didn’t want to bother his doctor ... in control. He is Immanuel, God with us. In an issue of THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY magazine (Nov/Dec 1988) R. Benjamin Garrison tells about a computerized chess game his wife gave him for Christmas. One night, he found himself shouting at this amazing ...
... resurrection." (3) You and I have much to look forward too. Heaven is more beautiful than we can ever imagine. Humorist Garrison Keillor in his delightful descriptions of the people in his fictional hometown of Lake Wobegon tells how difficult it will be ... up the car on the side of the highway, another driver who had fallen asleep behind the wheel struck the car. The impact dragged Jim Loder underneath the car for fifty feet. He was badly injured. He writes, "As I roused myself from under the car, a steady ...
... of his suffering with him. With Job, I stood on the edge of the city picking away at scabs. He found a way to wheeze to me what Jim had said to him, "When this first came up on me, I kept asking, ‘Why me? Why me?' Crawford said to me, ‘Why not you?' " And that ... not distorted. She is gorgeous. Williams tells us that when she looks at this woman, this is who she sees. The Garrison Institute, 37 miles from here on the Hudson, is doing a monthly series on rethinking environmentalism in our region. How? By ...
