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Garret Keizer

Garret Keizer's most recent book is Help: The Original Human Dilemma (HarperSanFrancisco). He is currently at work on a cultural history of noise.

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Slow to answer: The reticence of Jesus

One of the paradoxes of Jesus as he is portrayed in the Gospels is his way of combining candor with reticence....
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Pray and vote: Political sloth

Even before the invasion of Iraq had begun, the cry went forth through and from the churches: Pray! Pray for the soldiers, pray for the civilians, pray for peace. So I preached, and so I did....
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Grief and grievance: The tyranny of the dead

"Before I became enlightened, mountains were mountains and trees were trees.” So begins a well-known Zen Buddhist proverb that continues: “As I approached enlightenment, mountains appeared to be mo...
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Career ministry: Two cheers for professional clergy

"Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”...
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Faith, hope and ecology: A Christian environmentalism

The only possible dialog is the kind between people who remain what they are and speak their minds....
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No can do: Faith at work

Some time between World War II and the Second Vatican Council a small-town church in northeastern Vermont was destroyed by fire....
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Summer job: Faith at work

I worked my first full-time summer job at a glue factory when I was 18 years old. Most of the other guys carpooled to work from the inner city....
In the Lectionary

Slaying the hobgoblins

Sunday, August 19 (Luke 12:49-56)
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Thanks, but no thanks: Luke 12:13-21

It was a sad day in the history of the church when Paul’s statement about being “all things to all men” first came to be seen not as a call to diversity but as a claim of versatility. St....
In the Lectionary

Fear not, little flock

Luke 12:32-40

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In the Lectionary

Poor Martha: Sunday, July 22. Luke 10:38-42

Then she was my high school sweetheart, now she is my wife of 25 years, but we still laugh about that evening when, sitting close on the couch in my living room, we were momentarily startled by a r...
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Deadlines: Faith at Work

Louie Armstrong is supposed to have said, “Never mind creativity, man, just give me a deadline.” It’s a beautiful credo, one with which any self-supporting writer or artist can re...
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Of anchorites and beadsmen: Faith at work

Sometime in the 14th century an English woman we know as Julian came to the Church of St. Julian and St....
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Out of the depths

The psalmists of the Bible often sound as if they’re drowning.
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Natural resistance: Faith at work

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade for learned as well as unlearned hands,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, echoing a theme that goes back at least as far as the Rule of St. Benedict....
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Out of Egypt: Faith at work

I have been writing recently about the connection between our Christian faith and the workaday lives most of us lead, and I have sought to strengthen that connection....

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