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Go High

Read 1 Peter 3:8–12 California governor Gavin Newsom wants to be president. At the very least he wants to be the...
Bob Turner
August 28, 2025
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It Can't Happen Here

I just finished reading It Can’t Happen Here, a 1935 novel by Sinclair Lewis that imagines an alternative timeline...
Bob Turner
August 21, 2025
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A Buttress for Ms. Rachel

Some years ago, not long after she first got sick, my wife started a group she called “Flying Buttresses.” As she...
Bob Turner
August 14, 2025
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A Generous Kind of Faith

Read Exodus 13:3–10 I once heard a Jewish comedian talk about Passover and the requirement that the bread at the...
Bob Turner
July 31, 2025
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Aiming for the Sweet Spot

Read Amos 9:11–15 Last week I wrote about Amos’s anger management issues. This week I want to balance the picture...
Bob Turner
July 24, 2025
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What Would Amos Say?

Read Amos 5:10–17 Amos is an angry guy. As you read the book that bears his name, it seems almost as if his...
Bob Turner
July 17, 2025
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Sorry, Dave

Read Psalm 7 There is something seductive and dangerous about the sentiments expressed in Psalm 7. The subtitle of...
Bob Turner
July 10, 2025
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Prayers with Hands and Feet

A few months ago, when the Trump Administration first floated the idea of shutting down the United States Agency...
Bob Turner
July 3, 2025
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Loss

Read Genesis 3 I can almost not remember it anymore, but there is something about the way the light plays through...
Bob Turner
June 26, 2025
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Juneteenth Is for Everybody

Read Psalm 9:9-20 Today is Juneteenth, the commemoration of the final end of slavery in America. It was on June...
Bob Turner
June 19, 2025

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