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Scott L. Barton

Scott L. Barton is an honorably retired member of the Presbytery of Philadelphia who had pastorates in Northern New York, Vermont and Philadelphia. Now living in western Massachusetts, he enjoys writing, hiking and singing with Boston Symphony’s Tanglewood Festival Chorus. His latest book is Lectionary Poems, Year C: Even More Surprising Grace for Pulpit and Pew.. Those interested in purchasing a signed book for a reduced price can email him.

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Unless you change and become like children

A reflection on 2 King 5:1–14.

How easily in trouble

A poem by Scott Barton for the third Sunday after Pentecost.

Blessed be the tie that binds

Easter 7c Acts 16:16–34 We sang it yesterday with gusto; The old timers love it— and the new ones will; What, do..

Psalm 30 in Iambic Decameter

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Resurrection problem: A poem

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Who’s That Knocking at My Door?

“He departed from him until an opportune time.” What a strange line. We assume Luke meant the Garden of Gethsemane; But we..

The very stones: A poem

One of my first funerals, in my first pastorate, Was for a young man barely out of high school; One blistering July..