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“Teaching and Learning + Transistions”

Robes, Rice and the Space Between Us

Although I have led in several ministry spaces, this summer has been the first time I’ve been given a robe and stole to wear on Sundays....

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The Gifts of a Teaching and Learning Church

Dear Beloved Community, One August Sunday some three years ago, I met a winsome pair of brand-new students on the precipice of beginning a three-year journey t...

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Gift and Giver

If I had a dollar for every one of you who've shared with such gratitude what Sunday's service of Lessons & Carols meant to you... well, I'd have a host of doll...

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Now and Not Yet

All of us who enjoyed time together this week in Mary Foskett’s “More than a Season: Advent and the Christian Life” class were given ample gifts. Not the ...

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So Much Good Happening Here!

Dear Beloved Community, If you have felt like this month has been full to the brim with wonderful staff news, I have even more wonderful staff news to share –...

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All Things New

Dear Beloved Community, Several days have since passed, but the deep and abiding love I experienced alongside you this Holy Week and Easter will not soon abate....

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Collecting Our Tears

In author Sarah Bessey’s new book, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith, she speaks of the wilderness of lament. Far too often, she...

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Bearing the Beams of Love

I’ve gotten into the habit of wearing a rough-hewn wooden cross every day during Lent.  The cross necklace was a gift from my former church, Highland Baptis...

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Facing Our Finitude

I admit, I had to laugh.  It’s precisely not the moment to laugh, this somber ritual in worship where the ministers smudge ashes on the brows of their congr...

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How to Unlock the Heart

I’m certain that music unlocks a chamber of the human heart in each of us where words cannot. Time and time again in my life, this has been true for me, and p...

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To Dwell Among Us

I’ve had a recent conversation with one of my children about Santa, the mystery that stirs the imagination about a man who circles the earth in a night, nary ...

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