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Life changed when a nun returned to her habit after many years in "ordinary" clothing
Wednesdays are always my busiest days, when it comes to life at my computer keyboard.
First of all, there is my “On Religion” column deadline. That’s been carved into my calendar for almost 36 years. This is also the day when I work with the Lutheran Public Radio team to research and produce the weekly “Crossroads” podcast. We’ve been doing that for over a decade.
Right now, you can toss in lots of packing for our move from Oak Ridge up to the Tri-Cities region in the mountains of Northeast Tennessee. Late last week, I reached for a book (during an online interview with Jonathan “The Anxious Generation” Haidt) and realized that I had already packed that shelf and the boxes were sitting in my future office nearly 150 miles away. Then, dang it, the same thing happened with a different book during some email chatter with a Nashville media pro a day later.
Yes, things are extra busy in my neck of the woods. Thus, please allow me to offer a rather quick Rational Sheep post today, a natural follow-up to my recent post that ran with this double-decker headline:
Should men of the cloth hang out ...
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Religious garb in public places, Part II
Life changed when a nun returned to her habit after many years in "ordinary" clothing
