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Richard Skidmore

I CAME UPON A CHILD OF GOD

There was a star danced and under it my grandson was born.

Mar 3, 2023

I CAME UPON A CHILD OF GOD

Mar 3, 2023

Presence

Inscribed above the door of the Swiss Psychotherapist Carl Jung’s home is the Latin phrase Vocatus Atque Non Vocatus Deus Aderit. “ Bidden…

Feb 23, 2021

Presence

Feb 23, 2021

Epiphany

Let January be a silent month absorbent of sound. Let peace descend. Let this be a time of rest and dreaming a respite from maskless…

Jan 8, 2021

Jan 8, 2021

the birth of the rebel Jesus

Every birth is prodigious in the hearts and minds of those who first love you into the world. Jesus wasn’t the only one. We all of us come…

Dec 22, 2020

the birth of the rebel Jesus

Dec 22, 2020

A Bewilderment of Saints

I missed All Saints Day this year,

Nov 15, 2020

A Bewilderment of Saints

Nov 15, 2020

Summer’s End

Still missing John Prine.

Sep 25, 2020

Sep 25, 2020

MY TOP TEN LIST OF THINGS TO HOLD ONTO IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

1)There is Something, call it what you will, coursing through the living world that causes our cuts and nicks to close and heal. Flesh…

May 11, 2020

MY TOP TEN LIST OF THINGS TO HOLD ONTO IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

May 11, 2020

O Portlandia!

It’s coming on two years since we moved from the Pacific Northwest (land of the trees, home of the crazed) to settle just shy of paradise…

Aug 12, 2017

O Portlandia!

Aug 12, 2017

Yom HaShoah

Tenderness and Grace,

Apr 26, 2017

Yom HaShoah

Apr 26, 2017

Jesus Live Tonight at the Beehive. No Cover.

In his autobiography, Music Is My Mistress, Duke Ellington talks about ‘church goin’ as a little kid…

Apr 12, 2017

Jesus Live Tonight at the Beehive. No Cover.

Apr 12, 2017

Richard Skidmore

Richard Skidmore

Pastor Emeritus, Kairos UCC, Portland, Oregon. Writer, musician, senior softball enthusiast. Currently lives just shy of paradise in Encinitas. CA.

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