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BELFAST
02 Jan
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BELFAST

In Ireland, peace is always fragile.

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YESTERDAY
26 Dec
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YESTERDAY

I just finished watching “The Beatles: Get Back”. It’s too damn long! And yet not long enough.

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LOVE IS THE GREATEST
19 Dec
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LOVE IS THE GREATEST

I don’t like half the people I love.

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3rd Sunday in Advent
12 Dec
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TAKE JOY

The world is doing better than it has for a long time.

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HOPEFUL PESSIMIST
05 Dec
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HOPEFUL PESSIMIST

When it comes to peace, I’m a hopeful pessimist. I don’t expect the advent of peace anytime soon.

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SIGNS OF HOPE
28 Nov
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SIGNS OF HOPE

Doom and gloom fills the news these days. So it’s a good time to light the Advent candle of hope and call to mind signs of hope.

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ODE TO BENITA
21 Nov
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ODE TO BENITA

This Thanksgiving I will thank my lucky stars for the chance to know Benita Keller, to witness her bodacious life and beautiful work.

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ODE TO COALMINERS
14 Nov
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ODE TO COALMINERS

Last Saturday I saw my grandfather’s tombstone for the first time. Jacob Tremba died in 1922 at the age of 53, leaving a wife and 10 children behind.

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A HALLOWEEN STORY, PART 2
06 Nov
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A HALLOWEEN STORY, PART 2

Part 1 ended with the Dalai Lama standing on my porch.

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A HALLOWEEN STORY
31 Oct
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A HALLOWEEN STORY

The devil paid me a visit this week. He’d let himself in. (The devil never knocks.)

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Thanks to Old Scratch I’ll be posting a reflection on something I find remarkable in and around our world most every Sunday morning.

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WITH THE ONE YOU LOVE

October 25, 2026

Something notable happened this month that merits an early return from my sabbatical.

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I reached a personal milestone yesterday. Alas, there were no fireworks and no parades.

O JOGO BONITO

July 19, 2026

Soccer is a beautiful game, my sons told me years ago. I couldn’t see what they saw, but I’m beginning to.

BEYOND REASON

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I'm a soccer fan but not a fanatic. Alas, the game releases the inner barbarian.

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About The Author

Randall Tremba was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. He took a bachelor of arts in philosophy at Wheaton College, Illinois (1969), [delete extra space]a master’s of divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California (1973)[comma] and a doctor of ministry at Princeton Seminary (1992). He was installed as minister of the Shepherdstown (WV) Presbyterian Church in July 1976. Forty-one years later he retired. In between[comma]* he married Paula, became a parent (Jonah, Nathanael, Amanda) and a grandfather as well as founding[comma] founded the Rumsey Radio Hour (1990), and co-founded the Shepherdstown Good News Paper with Ed Zahniser (May 1979). You can follow the author on his blog, thedevilsgift.com.

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