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Palm Sunday is a festival celebrated by Christians around the world. Jesus went to Jerusalem; that much is certain. The details are less clear.
read moreFor believers, understanding our relationship with God is essential.
read moreA lyrical, captivating retelling of the biblical redemption story from National Book Award nominee Mitali Perkins, sure to become a beloved tradition for families of faith.
read moreIt isn’t just Jesus’ birthday. The whole of creation is reborn.
read moreToday there are Bethlehems all over the world as families are forced to leave home environments, travel to places unprepared for them, and find a way to survive on their own.
read moreAs the years moved along, this answer seemed less and less adequate in the face of undeserved suffering in the world, the epitome of which is the baby born into the world, experiences extreme pain, and dies after one day.
read moreChristmas presents us with an intersection of religious and secular stories that come from and come with a mixed bag of fact and fiction
read moreHere are some recent news items to which I have added a few facts that seem related. Have fun putting it all together, creating your own narrative about what it all might mean, if anything.
read moreFifty years ago, one prominent topic of conversation in the churches was the ecumenical movement, trying to determine what the various bodies had in common.
read moreA peacemaker’s guide to the book of Revelation The book of Revelation—which deals on a cosmic scale with good and evil, politics and empire, community and eternity—has intrigued and frustrated readers since it was written. How …
read moreHere is a reissue of the critically acclaimed bestseller, named one of the “20 books that changed the world” in New Age Journal’s Annual Source Book for 1995.
read moreIn this season of Advent, may we all be a little more perfected in love so that we may hear, perhaps for the first time, the message of Jesus and the angels, “Do not be afraid.”
read moreInstitutional religion has become vestigial enroute to extinction, having largely become a “non-prophet” organization.
read moreIt is not so much my thinking that has changed over the last fifty years, as the attitude I bring to that thinking.
read moreThis compilation of the mystical writings of Hadewijch of Antwerp is best described, in Andrew Harvey’s words, as a “heroic song” of love
read moreIn these post-election days, there have been no reports of the violence many had forecast. Certainly, this is most encouraging. There is no place for violence in a civil society.
read moreWatch Rev. Mark Sandlin, Presbyterian Church of the Covenant on his November 13, 2022, sermon on Happiness via Compassion and Connectedness.
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