Taking It On Faith
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We all have faith. Literalists try to limit it. Atheists try to deny it. Lets embrace it, and the diverse world it encompasses
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Can We…
Can we … celebrate our similarities … accept our differences …looking instead to what our unique experiences reveal to us about God?
Continue readingA Five Piece Suit
Have we committed ourselves to living the Message of the Christ more fully in the coming year?
Continue readingAdvent 2012 – Hope
God’s Hope, and ours, is that we nurture each other and the world with all of the love and compassion that we would the Christ child.
Continue readingSeeds to Sheaves
It can seem like all of our efforts to change things are fruitless. No matter what we do, the world remains mired in greed and exploitation.
Continue readingA Harvest of Peace
The human tendency to focus on our superficial differences instead of our fundamental commonality is what enables violence, oppression, and exploitation, whether of individuals, groups, or the world around us.
Continue readingSaving Our Lives … and the World
Does our faith require us to walk away from our lives, hop a plane to an impoverished nation, and start digging wells and building hospitals? Sometimes
Continue readingThey Come From Within
Sounds like a bad science fiction movie doesn’t it? This excerpt from Mark is the writer’s way of identifying the difference between legalism and faith
Continue readingNo Interest…ing
O Lord, who may abide in your tent? Those who … do not lend money at interest … Psalm 15 Uh oh. Did anyone tell the banks?
Continue readingOnward Christian Soldiers? Where You Going?
When a hymn ceases to reflect our understanding of what it means to be Christian, we can simply put it on the shelf. But what about sacred texts like Ephesians?
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