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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 [...]