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Safe, not sterile: discussing sex at church

August 4, 2013 2 Comments

When we talk about sexual abuse in the church, or even sexual harassment in the church, we are talking about an abuse of power, where someone uses his or her institutional authority inappropriately. It’s a terrible thing, and something the church has a grave history with, but it doesn’t mean sex itself is unsafe, or that is should be off limits as a subject of discussion.

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Flattery

August 3, 2013 No Comments

This is a God who has the power to create universes with a word and who has a refrigerator big enough to show the pictures of every person that has ever been on the face of the earth.

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Rejected gifts

August 1, 2013 No Comments

St. Joseph of Arimathaea Everyday Mysteries With others she manages a website for the Diocese of Colorado highlighting congregations’ creative ministries:

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In the weeds

July 30, 2013 No Comments

In our gospel lesson for Sunday, Jesus reflects on the parable of the weeds: the paradox of sin flourishing side by side and sometimes indistinguishable from virtue.

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I will never…

July 28, 2013 No Comments

Daily Office readings for Sunday, July 28: Psalm 24, 29 (Morning) Psalm 8, 84 (Evening) Kirkepiscatoid

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Our worst fears

July 27, 2013 No Comments

by Lawrence L. Graham According to the evidence presented at trial, Trayvon Martin thought the man following him might be a sexual predator. On the

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Meetings and God

July 27, 2013 No Comments

Then the apostles and the elders, with the consent of the whole church, decided to choose men from among their members and to send them

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