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Sabbath Monologue
This is a monologue from a Christian perspective using the story found in the Gospel of John, chapter 5, verses 1-15. It definitely touches on what Sabbath is and isn’t. But we each have our own point...
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Kin-dom Work: Proclaiming Release to the Prisoner
Recently, I presided over a liturgy that instead of using the word “Kingdom” used the word “Kin-dom.” The idea being that the Kingdom of God is one in which we are all kin. Additionally, I am...
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Interrupting Your Regularly Scheduled Service
I feel the need to interrupt the regularly scheduled service of daily practices to share my sermon from Sunday. I am convinced that we are at such a time that my tribe, white Euro American, cisgender,...
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The Doors Are Open
This is the litany written by the Council of Bishops of the AME denomination. The AME denomination is the home of Mother Emmanuel AME in Charleston, SC, where the massacre of 9 church members took...
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Ritual for Release on the Sabbath Day
Ritual for Release on the Sabbath Day Social justice work can often seem to be very sad and disenchanting. You really do run into the worst of people. However, you also meet the best in people. Where...
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Trust in God? – Prayerful Tuesday
Exodus 14:10-11, 13-14, 21: 10As Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites looked back, and there were the Egyptians advancing on them. In great fear the Israelites cried out to the Lord. 11They said to...
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God in a Box? – Prayerful Tuesday
1 Kings 8:10-13 10And when the priests came out of the holy place, a cloud filled the house of the Lord, 11so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the...
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Never Alone – Prayerful Tuesday
Matthew 28:20b “And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” God does not want us to be burdened because of sorrows and tempests that happen in our lives, because it has always been so...
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Gratitude for Family – Prayerful Tuesday
16But Ruth said, ‘Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. 17 Where...
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Daily Practice for August 18, 2016
Word: My friend, Corina Ravenscraft, writes about expectations and attachment in the BeZine. This is a life-long journey. I remember years ago when I was a beginning Spiritual Director, during my...
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