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#1 and a recap – 2024 Best Reads List Concludes
I like being an iconoclast but James was worthy of all the accolades. →
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Fleming Rutledge Upends Another Season
Alongside Dry January, a preacher might offer a sermon series on ‘6 Ways to Up Your Spiritual Game in 2024.’ I don’t even know what that means, but it sounds…productive. Inconveniently for such well-intentioned attempts to enter the marketplace of resolutions, the calendar of the Christian year gives us Epiphany, an obscure season that puts… →
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The Silence of No-One’s Land
I’m back up on the great StreetLight Magazine blog with a new meditation on silence–the way it can wallop you and open you up to something immense. Check it out here: https://streetlightmag.com/2022/11/07/the-silence-of-no-ones-land-by-alex-joyner/ →
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Little Cups
Alex has a new memoir essay up on the great StreetLight magazine website: https://streetlightmag.com/2022/08/01/little-cups-by-alex-joyner/. →
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Whole City Podcast with Elizabeth Catte
Alex Joyner, editor of Heartlands, has a new podcast, The Whole City. You can find the initial episode on the Charlottesville Podcasting Network and on YouTube. In this episode, Alex talks with Elizabeth Catte, author of Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia, about the history and future of Market St. Park in →
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Colossians: A Translation
A translation by Alex Joyner From: Paul, by God’s will an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Brother Timothy To: The holy and faithful in Colossae, brothers and sisters all Grace. Peace to you from God the Father. We give thanks to God, Father also of our Lord Jesus Christ, as we pray always on your →
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Australia (and Nuance) Burning
Recently I had the opportunity to write a story about the Australian brushfires for the great FaithLink resource. The main essay from that curriculum is now up on Ministry Matters. Come for the spectacle of the fire. Stay for the musings about how we’ve killed nuance and the opportunity to really see what we’re seeing. Click here. →
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Via Dolorosa of the Confederacy
My piece on visiting Appomattox Court House is up on the blog of StreetLight Magazine. Click here. →
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In Memoriam: Bess Sheldon
On November 8, 2019 we celebrated the life of Commander Bess Bryant Sheldon, most everybody’s Aunt Bess. These were my remarks at the service: So let me start by acknowledging that you don’t get to be a pastor to your own family. People know you too well. You might get called upon to do the →
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In Memoriam: Walking Liberty for Pete Joyner
On December 14, 2019, a memorial service was held for my father, Ulysses Percy “Pete” Joyner, Jr., at Trinity United Methodist Church in Orange, Virginia. I shared this witness to his remarkable life. The last time my father remembered seeing his father was on an evening in May 1940. The family was reeling from the →
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