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Paul Hooker

Paul Hooker is an honorably retired minister of the Word and Sacrament and a member of the Presbytery of New Covenant. He has extensive experience in reading, writing, and evaluating ordination exams, and in teaching and interpreting the church’s constitution.

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Apophasis

Nothing happens in this room. That is why we come. Pews have ceased to creak beneath their burden. Elders summing up..

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Joseph’s Bones

The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem, in the portion of the land..

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Blue-eyed Snake

What in the world is a blue-eyed snake? A sign that things are surely changing, that what is old is sloughing off,..

Drift

For the 2018 graduating class of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary Three hundred fifty million years ago an urge so deep no tongue..

Inferno

Blood runs in the streets. Where shall we place the blame when blood is blood, and death is death? We descend into..

Woodwork

It’s about the blood — joining boards at angles, edges are negotiations, prone to pinch, and nails pierce like talking points, splinters..

Silence Falls – Advent hymn

A new hymn for Advent by Paul Hooker. Your hymn purchase includes downloads of a PDF of the lyrics scored with the..

A prayer before Advent (hymn)

This hymn is free for congregations to use to support recovery efforts for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in Texas, Florida, and Puerto..

The thirty-two-foot principal

When called for, or at the organist’s discretion, at the end of lines, or when otherwise the melody pauses, as though gathering..

The Space Between

There is a space between one word and another, a gap that yawns between truth and truth, between hands reached out to..