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How the US Falls Apart: One Trade at a Time

24 Aug 202024 Aug 2020
Central Virginia is six COVID cases away from losing 80% of its hospital imaging capacity. I wish I didn’t know this. I wish this weren’t true. I wish I were…
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Right View

22 Mar 202024 Mar 2020
There are a couple ways to view what's going on right now. One starts funny and ends sad. The other starts sad and ends...okay. And not okay as in "meh."…
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The Devaduta Kingdoms

9 Oct 201921 Oct 2019
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.…
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The Phantom Fourth

7 Jun 20197 Jun 2019
I'm about to test in taekwondo again, another in a long line of tests to (in theory) get me to my first degree black belt. I've already got the belt…
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Sermon on What We Leave Behind

5 Dec 20185 Dec 2018
I'm in some strange mental territory here, so bear with me a while. I hope to make it worth our time. First things first, though--disclaimers. No, I have not received…
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Sermon on Ecstatic States

30 Sep 201830 Sep 2018
The existence of mystical states absolutely overthrows the pretension of non-mystical states to be the sole and ultimate dictators of what we may believe. —William James, The Varieties of Religious…
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Sermon on Gifts

24 May 201824 May 2018
My grandmother's profound gift was to dare to believe that, perhaps, there was nothing she couldn't do just because she was a girl. This is a far more difficult gift…
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Sermon on Charlottesville

13 Aug 201721 Oct 2017
Charlottesville is very much on my mind right now. I can't express the depth of my horror that the slogans my grandparents' generation risked their lives to fight are being…
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Sermon about Surrender

6 Apr 20171 Nov 2017
  As I've stumbled through the past year and all its crises, I've been gifted with several things that have helped me tremendously...and this time, I'm not referring to people.…
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Sermon about Love

4 Dec 20162 Jul 2018
Good morning, beautiful girl. How'd you sleep? You must've grown last night--your hair is crazy curly this morning! Yup, you grew. You've added a whole bunch of shoulder. Some leg,…

Kathryn Carson

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