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Scott Dalgarno
Scott Dalgarno is senior pastor of Southminster Presbyterian Church in Beaverton, Oregon. His new collection, Third-Class Relics, will be published next year by MoonPath Press.
Forgotten Voices
I am Peter’s wife sleeping alone in Capernaum. I am Eutychus who fell asleep before falling out...
Blessed Conrad of Bavaria, AD 1154
Cistercian pilgrim of Palestine, started home for Clairvaux when he heard his patron Bernard was dying. Got as far as Italy when word came ...
Pilgrim visits Julian of Norwich,
April 1410
April 1410
Through a tight window, Julian
crouches over a bit of handwork.
Known for going nowhere
she has redefined the words home,...
Water & salt
The weeping woman who knelt at the feet
of Jesus and anointed him for burial
is sister to the lithe Abishag; the maid...
Falling upward
“. . . he was carried up, and a cloud took him.” Acts 1:9Gravity, they say, is all about mass. Big attracts...
House calls: A vanishing form of ministry
A church I pastored in Portland, Oregon, ran an after-school children’s program. One afternoon someone came to tell me that twin brothers, aged six, had pushed a little girl during a play period....
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