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May 19, 20194 min read
Surrounded By Intelligences Other Than Our Own
This is in stark contrast with how the Bible portrays our relationship with the natural world. Our Psalm today calls on all aspects of...
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May 12, 20194 min read
The Great Promised Feast
When I was a young woman, I saw a film called Longtime Companion. The movie chronicled the lives of several gay men during the AIDS...
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May 5, 20196 min read
Sheep Feeding
Jesus had always recognized Simon son of John as someone with a lot of potential. He had so much potential that early on Jesus nicknamed...
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Apr 29, 20194 min read
Kinesthetic Learning
Educators have taught us that there are multiple styles of learning. The majority of people are visual learners, taking in the most ...
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Apr 22, 20195 min read
The Resurrection Laundry Miracle
When I was seven years old, an amazing thing happened. Every morning when I woke up, there was a brand new pair of purple striped socks,...
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Apr 7, 20194 min read
Stingy Story, Lavish Love
I met Lynn when I was a young pastor. She organized the acolytes at church, was about 20 older than me. She lived with MS, but managed...
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Mar 31, 20197 min read
Scandalous Forgiveness
This is a parable about extravagant forgiveness, about a father who doesn’t even consider not forgiving. This is a parable about a young...
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Mar 25, 20192 min read
Ending the Blame Game
But many of us do harbor the thought that a person is responsible for what happens to them. We hear of someone getting arrested and we...
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Mar 6, 20194 min read
Vision Quest
In Native American culture there is a rite of passage called the Vision quest. Typically an adolescent boy goes into the wilderness alone...
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Jan 13, 20194 min read
The Big OK
Some scripture passages stick with you: your confirmation verse, the Christmas story, Psalm 23. This Old Testament lesson sticks with me...
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Jan 6, 20195 min read
By Another Road
When I was a child, my mother used to let me play with the nativity scene. We set it up on the lid of the piano, and added figures as the...
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Dec 30, 20185 min read
What Is Healing Prayer?
When I came to Manchester as a student pastor, one of the first people I met was Wayne. Wayne was a retired insurance guy, and the parish...
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Dec 24, 20185 min read
Modern Day Bethlehems
Its Christmas Eve. and we’ve got all the makings for most incredible night Stars in the sky Holy hush Celestial choirs Good tidings of...
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Dec 3, 20183 min read
Living in Safety in the Era of Big Data
The key to the people’s safety is spelled out in this passage, and it isn’t what they had tried before. Prior to Babylon’s invasion, the...
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Nov 29, 20184 min read
What Is Truth?
“What is truth?” Pilate’s question to Jesus the night before his execution seems strikingly modern. The internet has brought us...
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Nov 18, 20184 min read
The First Church of Bob
It turns out that Jesus responds to a similar question today in our Gospel lesson. Jesus and his disciples were outside the temple in...
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Nov 11, 20184 min read
Out of her poverty,
The older gentleman walked the rails to trails path with a cane. The night before had been a blustery one, and many stick littered the...
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Oct 28, 20185 min read
God’s Abundant Grace
It’s big news at the Reuning-Scherer household: my daughter Stephanie has a job. She is now the cantor at Our Lady of Sorrows Roman...
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Oct 16, 20183 min read
The Quiltmaker’s Gift
The Quiltmaker’s Gift and our Gospel Story have a lot in common: Both feature men who have many possessions; In both stories the men are...
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