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How To Teach an Old Dog New Tricks
My dear friend, Megan Gunnar, is the director of the [...]
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Climate Change Preach-In
This monthly column will point out environmental dimensions in upcoming lectionary passages and suggest ways to bring [...]
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No Fact Filter for Sermons
I feel somewhat sheepish about starting out the year with nuts & bolts procedural issues [...]
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Enmeshed in Light
Last month, I attend a conference called “The Forgiving Victim.” James Alison, a brilliant theologian and an [...]
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Epiphany’s Creative Light
This monthly column will point out environmental dimensions in upcoming lectionary passages and suggest ways [...]
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An Advent Rant?
Last year I swore off the customary Christmas rant against the secularization of Christmas. Let’s face it, [...]
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Out of Nowhere
My mom called and complained that “it had gotten down to forty degrees” in Los Angeles and [...]
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The Best Christmas Ever
“What to give someone who has everything?” It’s the annual pre-Christmas dilemma. And the annual post-Christmas dilemma [...]
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Preaching Behind Closed Doors
Back in my writing days, I attended a writers’ workshop where I sat in on [...]
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Chronic Illness: Nothing is Certain, but Everything is Safe
All too often, what seems [...]