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Scott Kinder-Pyle

Scott Kinder-Pyle identifies as an ordained pastor in Presbyterian Church (USA), and has served as an adjunctive professor of philosophy, religion and literature at Eastern Washington and Gonzaga universities. Scott is a poet and the author of There’s No I in Debris—Except this One! In 2020 and 2021, he served as a resident chaplain at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, and has subsequently worked for Kindred and Gentiva Hospice as a Board Certified Chaplain [BCC], accountable to the Association of Professional Chaplains. Most recently, Salem Lutheran Church of Spokane’s West Central neighborhood has welcomed Scott as their interim pastor. He’s married to Sheryl going on 36 years, loves his children, Ian and Philip, enjoys films like Adaptation, ponders painting in the near future and appreciates the thinking of Emmanuel Levinas.
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Way, Way, Way, Back, Back, Back… to the Mytho-Poetic, Baby!

they seemed to sway the question of Intergenerational Worship away—way, way, far and away—from the ‘Entertain-Me’ inclinations of the infamous Baby Boomer generation.  And for the most part, I said “Thank the Lord and Pass the Candles.” 
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The Gap between Lightning and Thunder

There's a gap. A gap between the possibility of holiness and the convoluted facts on the ground. There’s a distance between my daydreams, in which all things seem possible, and the possibilities that spill onto the blacktop and seep into the cracks.
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Prayer begins with this B-racket

I aspire to counter that prayer-posturing, however, with halting words and with stuttering silences that actually compete with March Madness for our passions.
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When Nietzsche Rides the Service Elevator Too: Reflecting on Cathy McMorris-Rodgers’ MLK Speech

Elevators, like the well from which Jesus drew water with the Samaritan woman, are compelling venues for conversation. Don’t you think?
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Scroll Back to the Bosom of Abraham

as the Sacred Scriptures and Constitution are wont to do— the literal text tore a giant, yawning chasm between the poor slob and that infamous, rich guy with the winning temperament...
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Caesar?! — But Why the Most Powerful Person in the Free World Survives

The vast majority have long conflated goodness with greatness, and more often than not, goodness must assume the minority position and embrace its subversive assignment.
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An Introduction to Religion: the Myth of Mice and Yet, the On-Going Buzz

Religion in Spokane is notoriously ghettoized, which is to say, we ‘talk’ and ‘listen’ on sites like this one, but in the process we discover how afraid we are of being ignorant, or being wrong, or being unfaithful, and so we scurry back to that enclave where people think and believe like us.
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