Author: Dan Wilt

Remembering Our Way Forward

Tonight Peter Fitch, my daughter and I, and some friends, are leading a brief Christmas service a local funeral home puts on yearly for those who have lost a loved one this year. We lead a few carols, I’ll offer a short reflection, and Peter

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LightenUp: I Like You

We have a number of friends going through great difficulties right now, and we ourselves have hit a few bumps. In the midst of that, a friend sent me this: I Like You So, be liked. That’s about as profound as its going to get

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Ideas Long Ago Forgotten

So many of the most healing ideas for the Church to embrace in its relationship with culture, and its understanding of itself are existent throughout the ancient Church. There are things long ago forgotten that the more hip, mod, faddish, culturocentric mindsets in our contemporary

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Music & Hope

Played guitar for a funeral last evening. A beautiful, radiant spirit, this gal was to so many people. Then, our our oldest “adopted” daughter (i.e. she’s not our daughter, but we love her like one) lost her aunt to cancer last night as well. A

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Art & Vulnerability

I’m amazed at how vulnerable I feel as an artist when I create something that others are meant to experience. I wrote a quick song last night, very roughly/poorly recorded, and swallowed hard as I played it for some friends who came by my office

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