Oppression
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Love and Anti-Oppression (All About Love, Part 4)
The day before I went in for the surgical procedure on my left hip, I wrote this in my personal journal: “It started back in 2017: once-and-a-while episodes of my hips locking up momentarily then unlocking, and each time the pain would be blinding. Who knew that, all these years later, it would culminate in…
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Isn’t Stellaluna a lovely story? It comes with real depths of meaning. Consider how, midway through the story, Stellaluna is joyfully reunited with Mama Bat and her bat family. Now, as I was reflecting on this reunion, I confess that I found myself wondering, But why does Stellaluna return to her bird brothers? Living with…
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Journey Towards Wholeness: Exploring the 8th Principle
If you’ve been following our “Reading the Bible Again for the First Time” sermon series this year, you know that we’ve spent significant time with the story of the ancient Israelites and how they became enslaved in the land of Egypt. Through God’s might, and with the leadership of Moses, they escaped and, after 40…
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Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: The Prophets
This is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday. Tomorrow, the nation honors the life and legacy of that great prophet. I use that word, “prophet,” intentionally, designating anyone who speaks to the crucial issues of our time from the perspective of what is loving and just. Sometimes the prophet must trouble the waters when that’s…
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