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  • Ghosts of Christmas’ Past

    We are of course familiar with the image of ghosts of Christmas’ past thanks to Charles Dickens, ‘A Christmas Carol,’ penned in A.D. 1843. Dickens points toward a morality of generosity during a great 19th century division between a well-off gentry class and the working poor. Even today his theme of the repentance of Scrooge…

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    Roger Harned
    Much has changed in Christianity and Church jargon since the 19th and 29th centuries. Tuesday, December 27, 2011: Ghost of Christmas Past This is a photograph that hangs inside Trinity depicting one of my predecessors on the front steps on a snowy day about a hundred years ago, 1872 church.

  • Thanks-taking feasts of C.E. humankind

    A BIG meal of little thanks in a long season of thanklessness. Giving Thanks to the LORD O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. 1 Chronicles 16: KJV – v.34 16:34 הוֹדוּ לַיהוָה We know the concept well — yāḏâ Yᵊhōvâ, from the Hebrew. This instance…

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    Roger Harned
    Who did you thank? a question about Thanksgiving

  • Bill Harned – 100 years ago in Smalltown, America

    Bill Harned, my dad as I remember him Bill Harned had been the dad in the 1960’s with his Kodak 8mm movies of everyone else in our family then later endless slide shows and even a poster-board chart of our family tree. I remember this photo of him in his new uniform after his promotion…

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    Roger Harned
    William E. [Bill] Harned circa 1942