Plan Your Escape Route Now
March 8, 2020
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“Our mission is to be midwives of the kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. That is no easy task and it takes enormous energy, courage, strength, and effort.”
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The Daily Sip
March 8, 2020
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“Nature amazes me. But nature has a long view. It’s patient. I guess they liked swimming back then. Cats, I mean. It is so dangerous to be sure of things a few millennia old.”
Reviewing Reading Buechner
March 7, 2020
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Buechner’s words are the antithesis of a church sign.
Mary Magdalene – My Lord
March 1, 2020
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“I counted myself among those who followed you. It was said that I was but a woman and yet you welcomed me. I followed you and you spoke to me. Your words fed me, you strengthened me to stand, a woman among men, as witness.”
Church Goes Missing: Little Women’s Critique of U.S. Christianity
February 29, 2020
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“Charlotte Allen asks where the Christian faith is in Little Women. The 2019 Little Women film may not have the explicit references or the pedagogical morality of earlier iterations of the novel, but Greta Gerwig has turned this question to the church – where is the Christian faith and praxis in the church and in Christians?”
Brother Sun, Sister Moon: a Lenten Memory
February 25, 2020
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written by Teresa Donati It was 1972 — how long ago that seems, yet in memory as only yesterday. My group of friends, including spouses
The OWG Challenge
February 24, 2020
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“To get more of an understanding of why those who rail against equality and full inclusion of people of color, LGBTQ people, women, and foreign- born people in our society, I began to engage with some who are angry about the origins of that anger. Doing so was enlightening and engenders some sympathy for them in my own thinking.”
Preparing for Good Friday
February 17, 2020
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“The choice we Christians face this Lent is to confront the heritage from the past and its impact or to be silent. For the faithful who have heard over many years the Passion according to John, it can be heard differently this Good Friday. To the seeker who might hear this narrative rarely or even for the first time in our church, what must we say? What will we choose to say— in writing?”
Astonishing Kindness
February 16, 2020
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“We were made and set here, the writer Annie Dillard once wrote, “to give voice to our astonishments.”
Understanding Evangelism: Three Key Terms
February 15, 2020
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“When evangelism is strictly about sharing the good news, those who evangelize are energized and grow in faith, hope, and love. Conversion remains the amazing grace of the Holy Spirit. Evangelists help conversions happen, even being the linchpin at times. Church Growth stays as the work of the congregation, inviting others to join the community and letting them grow as a new member.”
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