mission

  • Being Together

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    Our focus on being together can get in the way of making it happen–and doing the very thing we’re called to do.

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  • Why we don’t really want an accurate count of homelessness.

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    When I was a teenager, I was part of Youth Volunteer Corps; a non-profit geared toward teaching youth about community service. For me, it was visionary, collaborative, and remarkably effective. And it always struggled to get funding. As part of a national organization with a common mission to both revitalize communities and build up young…

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  • Identity Politics

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    While Jesus tries to help them see what he is up to, they struggle to get past his identity. Even his closest followers are confused by who he is supposed to be. How fighting over the nature of Jesus prevents us from following Him. Proper 8C |  Luke 9:51-62   Who is Jesus? Last week,…

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  • Church and Politics

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    One of the ways I struggle with our arguments about church and politics is that we don’t use the word the same way. Another is that Jesus’s actions seem quite political. Check out my thoughts on my St. Stephen’s blog. One way a church must be political

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  • Blessed For Mission

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    This is huge! And I honestly don’t understand why we don’t get this time off of school and aren’t making a bigger deal of it. Putting Jesus’s baptism at the center of faith Epiphany 1C |  Luke 3:15-22 The big deal There are three ways we know that Jesus’s baptism was about as important to…

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  • My 3 Words for 2016

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    Happy 2016! I’m trying something new. I’m kind of jazzed about it. I’ll pick 3 words for the year. Like a mantra. A vision. A course of action. A way of changing my life and maybe help me change the world. Do you want to give it a try? What am I doing? It is a…

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