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This past Tuesday, January 7, 2025, my father, Keith Erickson, passed away after a seven-year battle with cancer. He was surrounded by family during the final days of his life, as we shared stories, prayer, tears, moments of deep quiet, laughter, and much singing around his bed. There are so many things I could say …
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I've enjoyed posting poetry series themed around the Christian year in the past couple of years (see "Poetry for Lent" and "Poetry for Easter"). I will continue that with a series called "Poetry for Ordinary Time." Ordinary time includes two sections of the church year between Christmastide and Lent and Easter and Advent. The word …
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I've enjoyed posting poetry series themed around the Christian year in the past couple of years (see "Poetry for Lent" and "Poetry for Easter"). I will continue that with a series called "Poetry for Ordinary Time." Ordinary time includes two sections of the church year between Christmastide and Lent and Easter and Advent. The word …
Continue reading "Kwame Dawes, “Peach Picking” [Poetry for Ordinary Time]"
While reading through Nicholas Wolterstorff's powerful book Lament for a Son, I came across this moving description of how tragic loss leaves a hole that cannot be replaced. In this book Wolterstorff, who taught philosophy at Calvin College, the Free University in Amsterdam, Notre Dame, and Yale, chronicles his own journey through grief after the …
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Matthew Erickson 