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I occasionally learn something as an Episcopal priest from the United States planting a church and raising children in the Netherlands. Nothing you probably didn't already know, but just in case... The title alludes to Hopkins' As Kingfishers Catch Fire

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    After I had somewhat laboriously trudged across Beatrix Park to the Amsterdam-Zuid station and gotten onto a train with three bags containing the material remains of the church whose pastor I had been, I wondered if this was a solemn moment that called for some brief ritual or at least prayer, maybe a Facebook post. As it happened, I was tired and my legs hurt from a minor injury. I wasn’t supposed to be walking so far or carrying so much. So I let my aching legs settle into the seat, and my min

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