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"God longs for freedom instead of bondage, justice instead of oppression, life instead of death." - Kelly Brown Douglas, (b. 1957)

Bright sun shining amid a blue sky and thin clouds, above a still river lined by green trees.

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 13m

Love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. #Luke6 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.” - Jesus #Luke6 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m starting the Psalms from The Message, working my way 1 to 150, posting bits here as I go— Why the big noise, nations? Why the mean plots, peoples? Earth-leaders push for position, Demagogues and delegates meet for summit talks… “Let’s get free of God!” #Psalm2 #Message

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth and said to him, "Follow me." He got up, left everything, and followed him. Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house; and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them. #Luke5 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wrote these poems one month ago. Last week, fall officially began and is in full swing. But I’m still savoring my summer memories. Hummingbirds migrate, so that one I saw in August has likely left Santa Fe by now too.

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Santa Fe Morning & Time Change

Two summer poems inspired by water

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jesus said to Simon, "Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch." Simon answered, "Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets." #Luke5 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just learned from @wikipedia.org that Gibney’s stepfather was William Sloane Coffin! I still have my DVD of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (and still miss Twitter).

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A poem assembled from the Private Devotions of Bp Lancelot Andrewes, best known for overseeing the translation of the King James Version Bible, on his feast day 🕯️ “Have patience with me, Lord; yet I have not wherewith to pay, I confess to Thee; forgive me the whole debt, I beseech Thee.”

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The Whole Debt

Poem assembled from Lancelot Andrewes’ Private Devotions

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Queen Esther answered, "If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me-- that is my petition-- and the lives of my people-- that is my request. For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated.” #Esther7 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The devil led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world. The devil said, "To you I will give their glory and all this authority. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours." Jesus answered, "It is written, 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.'" #Luke4 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Started our fall Bible Study today on the Gospel according to Mark. Still can’t read about Beelzebub (Mark 3:22) without thinking of this song by #SoulCoughing.

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Bus to Beelzebub

Soul Coughing · Ruby Vroom · Song · 1994

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

About five o’clock he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, ‘Why are you standing here idle all day?’ They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard.’ #Matthew20 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Then Jesus cried aloud: I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness. I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.” #John12 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Come out to NJPAC October 15-17 for the Dodge Poetry Festival. I’ll be performing at the FREE Family Fun Day on 10/17 in Chambers Plaza between 12-12:30pm. Hope to see you there! Tickets at njpac.org/dodgefest #DPF26

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." #John12 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s been seven weeks since my last post on Substack, a summer sabbath of sorts. But by the pool and the shore, on trains and planes, in bed and a new papasan, I read poetry that had been suggested or given to me by YOU! #poetry

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In the Company of Poets

Summer Reading & Dodge Poetry Festival Invitation!

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The great crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!” #John12 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My daughter needs to read Caldecott children’s books for an elementary school assignment and I was delighted to realize we have 20 of these in our house and more that I’ve read over my life. Book joy begins with childhood! www.caldecottbooks.com

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Caldecott Medal Winners & Honor Books (1938–2026)

Every Caldecott Medal winner and Honor Book since 1938. Covers, descriptions, and Amazon buy links.

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The crowd answered, "How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up?" Jesus said, "The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. Believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." #John12 #HolyCross 🕯️

Cross by the Hudson River at Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, NY

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Peter came and said to him, "Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?" Jesus said to him, "Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times. #Matthew18 #dailyoffice #forgive

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.” #John11 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Where I was 9/11/01— Room 207, Union Theological Seminary, NYC Merciful God of full circles, I remember sitting in this room in 2001, on the first day of James Cone’s Systematic Theology class, when someone burst in to tell us the World Trade Center Towers had been hit. 1/2

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Collects & Postcard to God

Prompts from a workshop with poet Pádraig Ó Tuama

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" Martha said, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God." #John11 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. #John11 #dailyoffice Was Martha added? Check out @libbiesp.bsky.social’s research

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Signs of Mary Magdalene in John 11

“If John’s christological confessor is also the first person the risen Jesus appears to,” says biblical scholar Elizabeth Schrader Polczer, “that could make her a competitor to Peter’s...

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. Many came to him, and they were saying, “John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” And many believed in him there. #John10 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them." #Matthew18 #lectionary

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We just saw Coyote vs Acme in the movie theater and it was awesome! Most of it takes place in and around Albuquerque and the main character was wearing a Frontier Restaurant t-shirt in one scene. Definitely recommend.

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.” #John10 #dailyoffice #poem

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Do You Follow?

Poem inspired by John 10, Isaiah 40, and Psalm 23

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another.” #Job19 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Micah & I were amazed when we discovered our St. Stephen's connection! My home church in the 90s. "At 19, he began attending worship services at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, a small congregation in Olean, NY. 'They welcomed me immediately and beautifully, so I said, I guess I’m Episcopalian now'"

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Wisconsin cathedral welcomes Episcopal Church’s first transgender dean

[Episcopal News Service] Growing up in rural Western New York, the Very Rev. Micah Cronin couldn’t have imagined his present role as dean of the Episcopal cathedral in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was …

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God's works might be revealed in him. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." #John9 #dailyoffice #poem

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Waiting Room

Poem inspired by John 9, written in a hospital

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’m focusing on The Gospel of John this #dailyoffice cycle and am glad we’re done slogging through #John8, the only chapter that doesn’t make it into the #RCL #lectionary. It’s mostly a bunch of bickering.

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” #John8 #dailyoffice

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Free Truth

Short poem inspired by John 8

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor. Be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers. #Romans12 #lectionary

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Praying for Nepal, all who have died, all who are grieving, all who are missing, all who are searching.

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life." #John8 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Jesus cried out, "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me. As scripture has said, 'Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water.'" Some said, "This is the prophet." Others, "This is the Messiah." But some, "Surely the Messiah does not come from Galilee, does he?” #John7 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"How does this man have such learning, when he has never been taught?" Then Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine but his who sent me. Anyone who resolves to do the will of God will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.” #John7 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jesus did not pursue fame, fortune, or social media sensation. He didn’t go to the capitol to show the world all he could do. He almost didn’t go at all. Secretly, he slipped in— one wanted if identified. #John7 #poem (full in post)

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What Was Coming

Poem inspired by John 7

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

When they were satisfied, he told his disciples, “Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost.” They filled twelve baskets. When the people saw the sign that he had done, they began to say, “This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world.” #John6 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that testify on my behalf. Yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” #John5 #dailyoffice #poem

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Searching Scripture

7th poem inspired by the Gospel of John

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be astonished.” #John5 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.” But he did not answer her at all. #Matthew15 #lectionary

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Chuckled reading this article since I was literally reading Berryman at the beach today! “The poets leading the charge are not the traditional behemoths – Berryman and the Brownings, Marvell and Milton, Pope and Pound.”

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The Guardian view on booming poetry sales: Homer, meet the Instapoets | Editorial

Editorial: In an unexpected twist, a Hollywood epic has contributed to Britain’s best-ever half-year in poetry sales

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him.” The father realized this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he himself believed, along with his whole household. Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee. #John4 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“Our lives in Jesus Christ are always life, death and resurrection.” Bp. Matt Heyd #tec

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