Sean Niestrath
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- Sep 10, 2026
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- Aug 14, 2026
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The Grief Tree (opens the original)
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There is a tree just on the left side of a paved path that I walk a couple of times a month. Itâs on the left because I nearly always walk it in the same direction. It is in a city park and hundreds of people see it every day. I donât walk for exercise â that is a by product of what I am doing. I walk for contemplation. That means that I will often stop and consider the mundane. One morning this past spring I was still trying to process the sudden and unexpected death of someone I knew. I
Abundance of the Heart — Faith, History, and Public Life (opens the original)
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âOut of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.â A well-known proverb used by Jesus as he was confronting those who had accused him of being of Beelzebub and were in the early process of figuring a way to get rid of him. This is a true and frightening saying. We may think that we are telling people something about the world. We are really telling them something about ourselves. The abundance of the heart exposes us in ways that we may not always be attuned. It took me a long time to fig
Institutional memory (opens the original)
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We are fascinated by newness. The younger generations will always grow weary of the older generations slowing everything down. We fall into the trap of confusing enthusiasm with wisdom. I am now old enough to be bemused by those who have just stumbled into a brand-new insight that is hundreds of years old. I also provided such bemusement to my elders in years past. In any organization there are people who have been around for decades that understand how things work. They embody the tacit rules a
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