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Life Is a Thump-Ripe Melon

I’ve long been a fan of singer-songwriter Joan Baez for a long time. Not always: I guess I was aware that she had...
Allen Heggen
August 25, 2021
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Quinoa

It must have been more than a dozen years ago that I walked into the Iron Hill in Newark and discovered on the menu...
Allen Heggen
July 28, 2021
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Coming Home: To a Place We've Never Been Before?

It has been interesting for me to note, even from a couple thousand miles away, the differences that have...
Allen Heggen
June 30, 2021
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Meditation

I found myself thinking about Dorothy Sayers this morning. “About whom?” you might ask. Allow me to introduce you....
Allen Heggen
June 2, 2021
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Meditation

I feel like a seven-year-old child. I feel I’m like with my family in the family car, and we’ve made a road trip to...
Allen Heggen
June 10, 2020
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Lessons from Doubting Thomas

John 20:19-31 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week and the doors of the house where the...
Allen Heggen
May 6, 2020
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Signs of Grace

My mind snags caught on a poem by Jane Hirshfield: Anywhere You Look in the corner of a high rain gutter under...
Allen Heggen
January 29, 2020
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What Does Patriotism Mean?

This is the week in which Americans celebrate the Fourth of July. I hope that this is a safe space for me to come...
Allen Heggen
July 3, 2019
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Loaves Abound!

Friends at St. Stephen’s: grace and peace! The postcard announcing our annual congregational meeting arrived...
Allen Heggen
January 24, 2018
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Nourished into Growth

Chicago-based pastor and teacher, Joseph Sittler, once said that we don’t “just grow”: we are “pushed,...
Allen Heggen
June 28, 2017

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