Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦

@aahrens430.bsky.social

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Chaplain, PhD Christian Worship Author: Suffering, Soul Care & Community: The Place of Lament in Corporate Worship. (Wipf & Stock, 2023), musician, teacher. I enjoy nature, birds, music, poetry.

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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦·Apr 23

“Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.” -Mary Oliver “Messenger”

A grassy hillside with trees in the sunshine.

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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦·Jul 28

All of @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s posts are important, but this one feels particularly so. This administration’s embrace of Nazi German policies is becoming more blatant by the day. Most of us ordinary Americans wouldn’t catch the subtle references. I appreciate how this newsletter calls that out.

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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦·Jun 24

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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦·Jun 16

“And I am thinking: maybe just looking and listening is the real work. Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem.” -Mary Oliver, “From the Book of Time”