If you win, feel free to share your gift certificate with me … Patagonia is a very “green-friendly” company AND has very enviable clothing.
The National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Programs is sponsoring a photo contest—On God’s Wild Land. Share with us a photo and your experiences working on, volunteering, or enjoying public lands and God’s [...]

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We’ve been keeping track of the situation in the Middle East this past week and watching with despairing eyes as the death toll continues to climb. We have strong personal feelings about the situation and what should happen, but mostly we are saddened by the violent turn of events recently.
Rather than going to church this [...]

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Props to Josie for finding this link . . .
Wrestling for Jesus News Clip
I really have no words for this one.

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Well, after many hours staring at a blank computer screen, here’s what I have so far for my faith statement. I don’t promise that it’s a final copy, but I’d love any comments as long as they are constructive.
    In the beginning, God created. Out of nothing, through the power of her voice, [...]

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i’m supposed to be writing my faith statement at this very minute. instead, i’m playing around on the internet, which i rarely do, trying to find some inspiration. somehow the words ‘i believe’ just sound so boring and so dull. blah. so, i’m curious. if you had to write down what you believed without using [...]

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May God bless us with discomfort
at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships, so that we may live deep within our hearts.
May God bless us with anger
at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that we may work for justice, freedom and peace.
May God bless us with tears to shed
for those who suffer from [...]

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To present our time in Jamaica, our group created an abbreviated worship service focusing on different things we had seen and experience. Will and I worked on crime and poverty. Here are our laments and prayers of confessions:
How gated sits the city that once was full of riches.How plundered she has become,She that was beautiful [...]

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I’m not in the habit of praying much these days. It’s a bad lack of a habit I suppose, but it’s not unusual for me. I guess I’ve never been a regular when it comes to prayer. It comes and goes, and I don’t worry about it too much, though perhaps it’s a sin that [...]

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Someone is coming . . . We are waiting . . . Someone is coming to grant dignity to long-suffering bodies . . .
We are waiting . . .
Someone is coming to the breathless . . . We are waiting . . .
Someone is coming to those who lack energy . . . [...]

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This weekend marks the second anniversary of our country’s involvement in the war in Iraq. It is also the beginning of holy week and I am struck by the timing. Ever since the peace of Constantine in the 4th century (look what they teach you in seminary) Christianity has struggled with being an [...]

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