Talking the Walk
August 28, 2017
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How often do you talk to people- friends, neighbors, your communities, strangers- about your faith? When was the last time you told someone the story of your faith?
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Moments of Transformation
April 2, 2017
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by Jennifer Ochstein When people ask about my conversion testimony, I cringe. My motivations for becoming a Christian were suspect. I wasn’t filled
the Objective God
March 19, 2017
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Again and again we find ourselves as subjects addressing God as an object, a separate being – one whom we seek, appeal to, and praise. We ask this divine being to respond, to have mercy, to grant, to forgive, to act, just as we would ask another person to do the same. “We” speak to a God who is not “us,” but something else, whether we think of God as the one in whom we live and move and have our being, or as something impossibly far away. In other words, we think dualistically.
Transformation not conversion
March 19, 2017
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by George Clifford The theological term conversion has sufficiently troubled me that I have avoided using it for decades. Initially, this avoidance was
Speaking to the Soul: Conversion
January 25, 2017
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When was a time you experienced conversion of way of life, or a significant change, and it took you a while to accept your “new name?” Who entered your life to help you navigate it?
Speaking to the Soul: Anagnorisis 180º
August 19, 2016
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When is a time you discovered a pivotal truth that flipped your way of viewing something on it’s head, and turned you from a naysayer or a persecutor, to a follower?
Christian aid workers and Muslim refugees
August 2, 2016
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The Guardian describes as “insensitive” attempts by Christian aid workers to convert Muslim refugees to Christianity during their detention at an asylum center on the island of Lesbos, Greece.
An Order of Conversion
August 2, 2015
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In the Magazine this month we’re exploring story-telling and the ways we craft the narratives of our lives. In this piece, Julia Powers aligns the unfolding story of the liturgy with her own story of accidentally discovering grace.
Two women find The Episcopal Church from opposite directions
April 15, 2015
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The Reverend Nurya Love Parish grew up unchurched, called to ministry in the Unitarian Universalist Church, educated at Harvard Divinity. Rachel Held Evans grew up
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