All saints (and sinners)
Have you ever celebrated the feast of All Saints (aka All-Saints Day). It’s today, November 1. For over a millennia, Christians have...
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philreinders
- Sep 5
- 2 min
Labour day liturgy
For your Labour Day prayers: here is a brilliant song from the Porter's Gate, "Your Labor is Not in Vain." (I play this every Sunday on...
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philreinders
- Mar 2
- 3 min
Viruses, missiles, and ashes: learning to die
The trouble with normal is that it doesn’t exist. Whatever we previously believed to be normal life was smokescreen and subterfuge,...
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philreinders
- Jul 23, 2021
- 4 min
Loving your enemies, the Lasso Way
Are you sick of the fighting, the social media trolling and trashing, the climate of contempt and derision, all the destructive...
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philreinders
- May 5, 2021
- 1 min
Haste the day
Sometimes - oftentimes - we lack for words. In the midst of a glorious good, in the muddle of hollowed darkness, both can leave you...
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philreinders
- Apr 3, 2021
- 3 min
The necessary interlude
Growing up I never knew this last day of Lent had a name. It was simply another Saturday, this one sandwiched between the big days of...
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philreinders
- Jan 2, 2021
- 2 min
A new year's prayer coming out of 2020
Hey, we made it. The annus horribilis of 2020 is in the rearview mirror. And as we all move out into this new year – perhaps with an...
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philreinders
- Dec 31, 2020
- 5 min
Ditch the resolutions for a rule
January 1 – an entire shiny new year lying ahead, 365 calendar squares of unmarked living. It screams of so much possibility and...
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philreinders
- Dec 5, 2020
- 4 min
The real Christmas deal
"A saint is one who exaggerates what the world neglects." G. K. Chesterton No, Virginia, that paunchy, red-suited, white-bearded stranger...
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philreinders
- Nov 12, 2020
- 1 min
Tel Aviv Market
Fresh off of a flight, desperate to stave off jet lag, I dove into the Carmel Market (the Shuk Hacarmel) - a full sensory delight that...
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philreinders
- Nov 12, 2020
- 1 min
Welcome
Hey all, and welcome to my brand shiny new blog site. After years of writing over at Squinch, I figured a more readily identifiable blog...
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