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WHO NEEDS CHURCH?
Early in my time as lead pastor of a congregation I served for more than thirty years, I happened on a comment from Eugene Peterson, almost always a wise commentator on the role of the pastor. Peterson mentioned that he was an avid reader of the poetry of Wendell Berry and that wherever Berry mentioned…
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MAESTRO: How Bradley Cooper Gets Bernstein Wrong
Movie Notes September 25, 2021. We were emerging from the COVID lockdowns. The Bellingham Symphony (BSO), a fine regional ensemble under the direction of Yaniv Attar, had been producing online concerts, but however fetchingly they are done online concerts are not the same as a live performance. Now, for the first time since the pandemic…