Tag: Christian community
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The Same Old Thing
Our church wants to be able to say “we are welcoming and affirming,” and mean it. On the whole, this feels like a good thing to me, especially since it is often true. I’ve begun to learn that I have enough reservations about the project and the way we’re going about it to fill a…
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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
[A sermon delivered at the Corydon Presbyterian Church on Sunday, August 11, 2019.] A lot of times these Bible stories we read in church start sort of the in the middle of things, and we need some backstory … but we can read the book of Ruth as a whole self-contained little story, really, and…
Matters of Interpretation 