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Go with the flow
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4 min read
Conversations about energy rarely take into account the precipitating factor of our disagreement: that we long to be masters of creation. Scripture gives us an entirely different charge.
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So there’s this big hubbub about a faith group wanting to build a structure in Manhattan to practice their faith. This isn’t really news, let’s be honest, regardless of what the faith group is. Now, if it were some fringey group or the First United Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, we might find it…
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the importance of Anne Rice’s quitting church
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3 min read
The news that celebrated novelist Anne Rice is quitting Christianity is no doubt be taken lightly by most of the world. In the same way that I reject caring about the gossip of celebretries, it would be quite easy to dismiss this announcement. And there might even be a few people out there that are…
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The Fool
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3 min read
“You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you.” This week’s gospel in the RCL is Luke 12:13-21. It deals with Jesus preaching to this crowd of thousands and he is describing how radical the Kingdom of GOD looks compared with the world we live in. It is a pretty profound message…
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Being Martha
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5 min read
What does it mean that we are so eager to slip on the persona of Martha? Why are we so eager to come to her defense?
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Compassion
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4 min read
The physical nature of the Compassionate Samaritan story can reveal a deep-rooted internal struggle in all of us.
Make a New Normal
