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Alleluia! Music and the Christian Life
by Delvyn Case
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The Carol of the Bells: A Theological Reading

Hark! These bells bring peace and joy - but something else as well. They call us to contemplate...
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Always And
by Rev. Melissa Cooper
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Why the 12 Days of Christmas Matter More than Ever

This is the first Advent season spent in local church leadership as a clergyperson. In my previous...
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Christians in General
by Christians in General
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Love in a Time of Pandemic: 5 Ways to Find Love When Everything Falls Apart

It will be nearly a year now of living in times of a pandemic, living in times of unimaginable...
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Coloring Outside the Lines
by Cara Meredith
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The Time and the Invitation is Now

Perhaps like preachers across America, I couldn't help but point folks towards inaugural poet...
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Cultivating Glory
by Christie Purifoy
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Why We Should Learn to Love the Color Orange

Once upon a time, I would have insisted I did not like the color orange. That now strikes...
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The Doxology Project
by Brad Roth
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On Not Preparing the Way

Advent’s mercy is that we are given permission to recognize our unreadiness.
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Dry Bones
by Kathleen Mulhern
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Dear White Friend... Again

I spent a couple of hours reading the Sunday paper yesterday. The prevailing tone of so many of...
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Everything Becoming
by Casey Tygrett
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What Happens When Things Come Together

Last week I returned to an event that means a lot to me. At The Apprentice Gathering in Wichita,...
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The Fluency of Hope
by Alia Joy
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When You Know Better, Do Better.

Part 1: Do the Best You Can When my daughter was three, I bought her an Indian costume from Old...
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Hidden Spaces and Holy Places
by Quantrilla Ard, The PhD Mamma
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Moving Forward

Moving Forward Is... Old Times One of the most challenging things I have had to do in my adult...
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In All Things Love
by Vanessa Stricker
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Barriers to Truth

You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. – John 8:32 The truth is supposed to set...
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In Christ
by B. J. Oropeza
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Do Guardian Angels Exist?

There are many stories of supernatural protection from angels. One inner‑city counselor claimed a...
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Joe Puentes
by Joe Puentes
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The Apostle Paul was the Original Energizer Bunny

I had a professor in Bible college tell me that the Apostle Paul was the original Energizer Bunny....
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Mere Chris-ianity
by Chris Williams
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Christmas in November

It’s early November, and Michael Buble has already told me it’s beginning to look a lot like...
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Old Things New
by Laura Jean Truman
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Dissolving Words: Saying Goodbye to a Year in the Lectionary

I like how safe words are. I like how words string together and make puzzles, and how those...
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The Porch
by Jerusalem Jackson Greer
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Making a Beautiful Mess of the Bible

by Heather Caliri I am a big fan of a good to-do list. Give me some action items, goals, or...
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Redbud Writers Guild
by Margaret Philbrick
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The Brothers Karamazov and Tainted Motives

The love that springs from my natural heart is thin and sharp as a razor blade. It may appear...
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Spiritual Direction 101
by Teresa Blythe
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e-Spiritual Direction: How Long, O Lord (Will We Always Be Online)?

We're stuck online for now. Are Zoom, Skype, or Doxy the way we’ll do spiritual direction forever?...
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This Kinda Contemplative Life
by Ed Cyzewski
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Where Does Your Identity Come From?

Do you know that you are loved by God? That is where our identity comes from. There are a...
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Walk & Word
by John C. Nugent
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When Sabbath Ceases to be Sabbath

In my previous blog, I argued that the Sabbath instructions in Torah did not merely require Israel...
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Zach Hoag Is Uncategorized
by Zach Hoag
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The Ghost of Christmas Present has a word for U.S. Christians

A Merry mic-drop. These are the days of American Evangelicalism's great revealing: a moral and...
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