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Rebecca's Blog · 1M ago

Good Friday

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Picture Sources/Artists: Good Shepherd Icon:  http://www.ogs.net/ Water Into Wine:  http://jefmenguin.com/turn-water-into-wine/ Loaves and Fishes:   http://blueeyedennis-siempre.blogspot.com/2011/07/july-31st-july-2011-18th-sund
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Rebecca's Blog · 1M ago

Degrees of Separation

Sometimes it seems like we are so isolated.  Yet the small world phenomenon proposes that all people are separated by only six degrees:  that is to say that in six steps of introduction from friend to friend, we could meet any/every one else on the earth.  This theory gained popularity through John
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Rebecca's Blog · 2M ago

Better Together

Despite the difficulties of living in a diverse community — whether that diversity comes from gender, cultural background, theological persuasion, or any number of other things that can divide us, I continue to believe that we are better together.  We help one another work out our salvation with fea
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Rebecca's Blog · 3M ago

Ashes to Ashes

Early Ash Wednesday morning we (my husband and I) received the news that yet another of our friends had died.  This was the third friend to die in less than 2 months.  We are no strangers to death, but the death of these friends seemed to signal a tipping point of some sort, because these [...]
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Rebecca's Blog · 4M ago

A Piece (or two) of My Mind

The First Piece:  Ah… youth… I have been reading a book that I would commend to anyone who is interested in vibrant faith, young people, or the health and vitality of the church.  The book is Almost Christian:   What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church. The book is disturbing,
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Rebecca's Blog · 5M ago

This year, those of us in the

This year, those of us in the northern hemisphere will celebrate Christmas not only in the solar darkness, but in lunar darkness as well.[i]  Somehow this seems fitting.  Whether due to financial circumstances, turmoil in family or church, or illness and loss, many people that I encounter (and somet
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Rebecca's Blog · 6M ago

About Time

‘So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.’ ~ Matthew 6:34 What if Jesus wasn’t kidding? This question was posed by Wayne Muller at the Living Into Sabbath/Guthrie Scholar week I was immersed in this past week.  What if Jesus was
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Rebecca's Blog · 7M ago

A Favorite Fable

I want to share a favorite fable with you.  It’s author is unknown, but it wass passed on to me by  Dr. Bev Forbes at Seattle University quite some time ago.  Each time I revist this fable, it speaks to me of the requirements of faith and blesses my journey.  May it do the same [...]
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Rebecca's Blog · 8M ago

Sunday Morning

I see and hear the most interesting things as I travel the roads on Sunday mornings, en route to one or more of our congregations. Some of them are hilarious; some  of them are profound . Today, the encounter was profound and provocative.  As I was on my way to Summerville and Beersheba, I happened
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Rebecca's Blog · 8M ago

Minneapolis Musings

More than a week has passed since the gathering of the Fellowship of Presbyterians[i] in Minneapolis.  Despite the fact that I share the Fellowship’s passion for missional church and a deep fatigue with denominational fighting and politics over ordination standards, I went to Minneapolis with a good
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