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June 17, 2024

Everything has become new

You may have seen artist Charles Allan Gilbert’s depiction of an elegant young woman seated at a vanity, admiring herself in the mirror. With a slight shift of perspective, the image becomes one of a human skull. Gilbert’s art is more than a trick for our eyes or a comment on vanity. It’s also a Continue reading

Ruminations

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January 22, 2022

Our work of reconciliation

Most of the parents of children in our Child Care Center are tired of the restrictions and quarantines of the pandemic, some of them desperately so. Most of us are, too. We grieve what we’ve lost and yearn just as desperately for a return to normal. We want to gather for worship the way we Continue reading

Ruminations

body of Christ, Dorothy Day, Ezra, finding faith, God's word, human relationships, laying a foundation, loving God, loving our neighbors, ministers of reconciliation, Nehemiah, pandemic, political divisions, quarantine, racial divisions, rebuilding, reconciliation, relationships, reshaping faith, return to normal, seeds of grace, social divisions, St. Augustine, tolerance, understanding, unity

About Me

Rich Neal is, in no particular order, a wordsmith and graphic designer; lover of typography, books, and publishing; photographer; contemplative; saunterer; and a retired and still-active pastor. He claims neither special wisdom nor particularly deep insight into life, only occasional glimpses of what lies behind the veil along the way. He shares them here in the hope of connecting the pieces of life’s puzzle that come to him in the journey and would consider it a gift if sharing them also connected him with others who travel an unmarked path toward the same unknown end.

understanding

Everything has become new

Our work of reconciliation