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Lent and Light and Love Prevailing

Lent is right around the corner and for those of [...]

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God’s Covenant with All Creatures

Sometimes a comfortably well-trodden path becomes a rut. When our [...]

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Winning One for the Gipper

In 1920, University of Notre Dame’s football star, George Gipp, contracted pneumonia and died, just [...]

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Mark’s Gospel and The Small Bird’s Immediacy

[This article was first published on [...]

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Deep Winter Light

In the cold of earliest morning at Pendle Hill Quaker Center, I venture from my room to [...]

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Where’s the Arc?

I’m not saying Jesus was a bad preacher. I am saying that one of the traditional styles [...]

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Matthew and Mark and Mysteries

We are in Advent, and a new church year is [...]

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Rejoicing in Active Hope

Clothing and food — celebrated necessities — describe God’s abundant gifts to creation in an Isaiah passage [...]

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The Domino’s Effect

A few years ago the Domino’s Pizza company faced a grim reality. Sales were falling [...]

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Betting on the Spirit

Back in seminary, and when I teach preaching, we emphasized over and over again to our students [...]