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Alleluia! Music and the Christian Life
by Delvyn Case
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The Hole in the Heart of Sacred Music, Pt. 2

This is the second part of an article about the value of listening to sacred music – rather...
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Always And
by Rev. Melissa Cooper
RECENT POST:
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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Peacemakers, Not Appeasers

Who could rationally approve of the senseless destruction of private and public property, the mob...
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Coloring Outside the Lines
by Cara Meredith
RECENT POST:
Learning to Listen with Love

Friends, I'm happy to bring you today's post, which feels most necessary to my heart today. I...
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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
RECENT POST:
Is Your Time a Burden or a Gift?

When we receive time as a gift, we experience gratefulness for the moments we’ve been given.
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Dry Bones
by Kathleen Mulhern
RECENT POST:
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
RECENT POST:
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
RECENT POST:
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
RECENT POST:
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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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
RECENT POST:
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
RECENT POST:
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
RECENT POST:
Our Collective Soul Shrapnel

The world’s on fire, cinder and ash, pluming smoke rising as high as our hearts can see. Everyone...
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Spiritual Direction 101
by Teresa Blythe
RECENT POST:
Back To School Pandemic: Choosing Without Obvious Choices

Parents of school-aged children are currently facing the hardest discernment situation one can...
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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
RECENT POST:
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
RECENT POST:
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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