5 Ways to Move from a Charity Mindset toward Justice Work
This originally appeared on OnFaith.Imagine that you are walking down the boardwalk with a friend, and down in the water you notice there is a young boy bobbing in the water. You are a decent person, so you jump ...
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Why "What Would Jesus Do?" Isn't Exactly the Right Question
In college, my favorite professor assigned Charles Sheldon's 1896 classic In His Steps when we were covering the Social Gospel in an American religious history class. In His Steps is a novel about an East Coast Protestant minister who, after being ...
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A Time to Feast and a Time to Fast
This originally appeared on OnFaith.“Americans do not know how to feast because they do not know how to fast,”[1] or so says Marva Dawn. She speaks not for all Americans but for the vast majority who are so acculturated to ...
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One of My "Cloud of Witnesses"
A few weeks ago there was a short notice in the Sunday bulletin about the death of a parishioner that a few of us remember, Meverell Good. He and his family were active at St. James's in the 1980s; they ...
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What makes you feel vulnerable?
As our Lent Event this Sunday involves The Power of Vulnerability, we are priming the pump for discussion by asking you, "What makes you feel vulnerable?"
Take a moment to respond using this completely anonymous survey. Thank you for your ...
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Looking for God in (Another) Long Winter
Below is an excerpt from a blog post I wrote here exactly one year ago this week. I thought it worth reposting as a reminder that we've been here before—in the seemingly endless howling monotony of polar vortices and i ...
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Believing with Our Bodies
In the little coffee house church in D.C. where Daniel and I met, I once gave a sermon focused on my experience as a person with a disability, in which I said that I sometimes feel "betrayed" by my ...
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Why Even the Smallest Good Work is Worth Doing
West Hartford sinks into controversy every few years. There was the furor over proposals for Blue Back Square, which inspired one resident to build an outhouse in his front yard to symbolize what would become of our fair town if ...
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Why the Secular Age Is Good for the Church
This post was originally posted on OnFaith | Voices.
The United States is not the well-churched nation of Christians that exists in the nostalgic post-war era. Not only are we more religiously pluralistic than ever before, but a growing number of ...
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Buoyancy
“So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don’t have a clue. But I am confident that the one who has buoyed us up in life will also buoy us up through death. We ...
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