Kristin Berkey-Abbott

Sunday, November 30, 2025

Balancing Acts in the Time to Come

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In some ways, life returns to normal today.  We are headed across the mountains soon, so I can preach and preside at Faith Lutheran's wo...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Thanksgiving History in Fabric Scraps

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Here I sit, at the kitchen table of the big, ramshackle house at Lutheridge, the church camp where my family has always had our holiday fest...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Thanksgiving Morning

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Thanksgiving morning, in a house with no wi-fi, and a writer determined not to use her hot spot until the last possible minute because she, ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Gratitude Tuesday: British Lit, Teaching, and the Larger Perspective

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This morning, I'm trying to remember to do my writing first before going to teaching duties.  Yesterday I did grading for my online clas...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Book Buyers on Campus

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On Friday afternoon, I noticed a stranger in the office suite.  No one seemed alarmed, so I thought maybe he was expected.  He wore slightly...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Homespun and Spinning of All Sorts

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My writing time is about out--but happily, I've written a rough draft of Sunday's sermon.  And I didn't have a unified blog post...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Various Patricia Smiths and Various Strands of a Life

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I have spent some time this morning listening to Patricia Smith's acceptance speech for the National Book Award for poetry; another poet...
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Kristin Berkey-Abbott
A poet, a scholar, a teacher, a wanna-be mystic--always wrestling with the temptation to run away to join an intentional community--but would it be contemplative? social justice oriented? creative? in the mountains? in the inner city?--may as well stay planted and wrestle with these tensions and contradictions here, at the edge of America.
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