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By the time I was ten years old we had moved nine times.  We were first in the New York City area, then in the Panama Canal Zone during World War II, then back to New York City, then to Pittsburgh, PA.  When I was ten we moved to Braintree, MA. That summer my mother […]

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart. 1 Corinthians 1:19 This passage from First Corinthians sounds like a policy statement from our sitting president, but is attributed to none other than God.  In fact, as we read the bible, God as God and in the human […]

Lenten Devotional by Fran Bogle April 9, 2017   Palm Sunday Meditation   Palm paths lead from the heart. Creation cries— Hosanna, save us. Don’t wash your hands and send us to die on a cross.   Be brave Speak truth to power. Call out a different name from the crowd.   Create safe space.  […]

Lenten Devotional by Nena Radtke April 8, 2017   “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.”  (John 8:31)   The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams writes in his book, Being Disciples—Essentials of the Christian Life, that in the ancient world to be a disciple of a teacher, “was to commit yourself […]

Lenten Devotional by Ric Carl April 7, 2017   “For in the days of David and Asaph, in ancient times, there were leaders of the singers, songs of praise and hymns of thanksgiving to God.”  (Nehemiah 12:46)   When I think of times in my life when I felt brave for something I’ve done, I […]

Lenten Devotional by Dawn Sorensen April 6, 2017   Safe Space, Brave Space…for me, it is the idea is that when you have a place that feels safe, a sanctuary, it allows you to be brave in the big wide world.  It’s easy to be brave in church when the friends and family sitting next […]

Lenten Devotional by Brandon Jones April 5, 2017   “If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday.”  (Isaiah 58:10)   Photo: “Haleakala Sunrise” by Brandon Jones Haiku: “Do Justice” by Brandon Jones   God of […]

Lenten Devotional by Laura Litman April 4, 2017   “Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as indeed you are doing.”  (1 Thessalonians 5:11)   As a child I used to be terrified to speak in public.  I still feel a little clamor of panic in the moments before presenting in a […]

Lenten Devotional by Rick Seaholm April 3, 2017   “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours…” (Genesis 1:29, NIV)   Sanctuary. I’ve written previously in this Lenten series that it’s a given for me, according […]