Pride is a funny word. It can mean both to have confidence in yourself and your work or contributions to the world (productive or creative or compassionate), but it can also mean to have a deadly (from the point of view of sinfulness) sense of your own power and worth.
In A God Story In the Gospel of John there’s a person that doesn’t appear anywhere else in the Christian Testament, a Jewish man, an authority among the people, named Nicodemus. Nicodemus is not a towering figure of Biblical legend….
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On The Verge It’s March (or nearly, I’m writing this in February). You know March, it comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. It’s the time that flower buds poke through the snow and we start…
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February, for being the shortest month, sure asks us to jam a lot of bits in. It’s Black History Month, it’s the month in which Lent begins this year, and it’s the month we’ll wrap up our Philosophy and Theology…
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Jim Harris recently shared with me and some other of our church members a bit of history on our stained glass windows. He began with an invitation to peek at some of our stained glass windows, one of which has…
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Let’s Talk About Race It’s all you hear about these days, isn’t it? Racism, #BlackLivesMatter, police reform, Breonna, George . . . And there’s the counternarrative. “All Lives Matter! It’s just a few bad apples. What about Black on Black…
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You Are Missing From Me You may have come across the book The Little Prince at some point in your journey through childhood or academic French classes. For me it was both; I read the book when I was studying…
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I won’t presume to know how you all are feeling, exactly. If you’re like me, you might feel a bit like we’ve entered the Twilight Zone–more than once I’ve had to ask someone what day of the week it is….
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There is a movement that is always afoot in Christian circles. It’s a movement to return to the worship ways of the early church, the one that formed in the wake of Christ’s crucifixion. Some folks will become disenchanted (not…
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Get in a Prayerful Way this Lent As Christians at Lent, we cannot avoid the wilderness. So, let’s not run from it, let’s go into the wilderness with Jesus. “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness…
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