Blessed with new sight
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In both gospels for this week, we are invited to see things differently—about our world, the people around us, and how it all works.
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In both gospels for this week, we are invited to see things differently—about our world, the people around us, and how it all works.
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In the Beatitudes, we are offered a vision of hope that is certainly unconventional, but it is purposeful. Blessing is for our common thriving.
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Celebrating All Saints’ Day in church is a beautiful chaos; a messy day of searching, hoping, that we too are good.
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It is fitting that Congress set All Saints’ Day as the day to cut SNAP (the program formerly known as Food Stamps). The day we celebrate all of the saints that came before, all the saints in our midst, and all of the saints to come, All Saints’ Day is one of the church’s principle…
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Eating a double helping of Mark 12:28-34 and John 11:32-44 We get our choice this week between two texts. One is the lectionary text (Mark) and the other is the text from All Saints’ Day (John) which can be transferred. Most churches I’ve served observe All Saints’ on a Sunday, so I thought I’d do…
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A web-friend was recently asked about Halloween and what he thinks about it as a Christian. His response, as expected, was thorough, honest, and appropriate. Mine, is well…perhaps a little less so. I don’t really dig on Halloween & Church. Not because I think it is demonic or sinful or whatever. And it is not…