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When Faith Fades
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Learning To Live A Better Story
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Confessions from Wild Goose 2015
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The Fidelity Of Limits
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How God Can Be Born Even Here
Over the past two months, my faith community has been exploring how the...
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The Ballad of Ruth and Naomi
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Lithium and a Prayer: A Few Thoughts on...
Two weeks ago spiritually-minded people from across the country flocked to Hot...
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Thy Kingdom Come, but how?
When tragedies occur something within us cries out to respond. We want...
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Pentecost: An Invitation to Dream
In the liturgical calendar of the Christian year, today is Pentecost — a...
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