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Barbara Chaapel

Barbara Chaapel is a retired minister in Philadelphia Presbytery and serves as a parish associate at the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. She directed the communications department at Princeton Seminary for many years and is a board member of the Presbyterian Outlook

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a sparrow sits on a bird feed in winter

Sustenance

On a winter morning, seeds are scattered, tea is poured, and patience becomes prayer. Barbara Chaapel offers a poem about the quiet truth that giving sustenance sustains us.

Care for creation

Earlier this summer I was fortunate to join friends on a small expedition ship to explore southeast Alaska’s coastal wilderness. The trip..

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