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Washington chopping down the cherry tree
17 Aug
16

LIES

I ran into an old friend I haven’t seen for serveral years and for whom time has been unkind. I silently gasp.

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BEHOLD THE EMPEROR
10 Aug
6

BEHOLD THE EMPEROR

The Devil dropped by for a visit. Where’ve you been? I asked. Oh, the usual places, he replied.

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BOTCHED BAPTISMS
03 Aug
6

BOTCHED BAPTISMS

One of my readers urged me to weigh in on the latest church foolery. Which one? The one in Arizona. I looked it up.

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Pig in slop
27 Jul
5

GRUNTLED SUBSCRIBER

I’m a word junky but I never hear of “gruntled.”

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Picture of FDR
20 Jul
7

DISGRUNTLED SUBSCRIBER

A disgruntled subscriber called me. I usually ignore unknown callers, but now and then I play Russian roulette.

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BORN ON THE 5TH OF JULY
13 Jul
6

BORN ON THE 5TH OF JULY

I was born on the 5th of July. It’s an unremarkable date.

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Shepherdstown StreetFest
06 Jul
14

STREETFEST AND OTHER FESTS

Everybody LOVES a festival. Well, maybe not EV-ER-Y body.

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MEMORY TEST
29 Jun
0

MEMORY TEST

Beware my old friends. “Memory tests” are now standard fare at annual physical examinations.

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NO KINGS IN SHEPHERDSTOWN
22 Jun
17

NO KINGS IN SHEPHERDSTOWN

The nation’s party wasn’t in DC last Saturday. It was in 2,000 other places.

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Library Shelves with a bright light at the end of the aisle
15 Jun
11

THANK YOU, AMY JO

I’m thinking we’ve all had an “Amy Jo” in our lives somewhere along the line. Who’s yours?

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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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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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