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Stretch Out Your Arms

Nine of us were gathered in the lounge of Burlingame on Pacific University’s campus. It was early, just after seven in the morning, and seemed earlier still, since all nine of us were in the middle of our summer residency for Pacific’s MFA program. We lay on our backs, seven emerging writers and a preeminentContinue reading “Stretch Out Your Arms”

Digest of Acts

Recently I spent an afternoon at the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, doing some research for a group bringing an overture to General Assembly, the governing body of the Presbyterian Church (USA). It had been a long time since I’d been in a historical society, but the smell of old paper, the hush of theContinue reading “Digest of Acts”