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Gary Percesepe
Gary Percesepe is pastor of Open Door United Church of Christ in Murphys, California, associate editor at New World Writing (formerly Mississippi Review), and a philosophy instructor at Fordham University. His most recent poetry collection is The Girl of My Dream.
The Day the President Threatened to Obliterate Civilization
Civilians hold hands in a ring of death at power plants targeted for obliteration. Bombs burst in...
Fearful symmetry
With apologies to William Blake and James Tate...
Children of Gaza
Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures. —Guy Debord...
Carpenter’s Lullaby
I consider Saint Joseph the special patron of all those forced to leave their native lands because of war, persecution and poverty....
What is the lost coin in us? (Luke 15:1-10)
Can we reach the sinner inside and ask what keeps us from coming to the table?
September 14, Ordinary 24C (Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28; Psalm 14)
Hope where all appears hopeless: that’s where God is.
Jesus makes it hard to be a Christian (Luke 14:25-33)
The problem many preachers face when trying to preach without fear or favor is Jesus himself.
September 7, Ordinary 23C (Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18)
My mother taught me what the Psalmist knew well—that a human being is one continuous interrogative prayer.
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Kairos election
Every second is the straight gate through which the messiah might enter. —Walter Benjamin
It’s late on earth...