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May 21, 2013 | The day of your baptism is the loveliest day of your life, a Durham pastor says. It is the day you get a new family called church.
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May 7, 2013 | The Lord's question, "Do you love me?" is not just for Peter but for all of us, the theologian tells graduating divinity students. What does our love of Jesus mean for ministry?
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April 22, 2013 | Mundane, ordinary acts of living defy that which would entomb us, says the executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches in a sermon preached the Sunday after the Boston Marathon bombing.
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March 22, 2013 | In this Easter sermon, the senior pastor of Hyde Park UMC says that the unfinished ending of Mark’s Gospel reminds us that Easter is not just the remembrance of something in the past. It is the good news that the risen savior is alive and is on the road ahead of us.
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January 28, 2013 | Jesus is able to hold the tension between the tradition of Israel on the one hand and the innovation of God on the other, says the dean of the chapel at Hope College.
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December 3, 2012 | Work is inherently meaningful, part of what it means to be made in the image of God, says a UMC pastor. So go forth to do the work that God has given you.
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November 19, 2012 | Even after Hurricane Sandy left everyone feeling bruised and battered, the pastor of Marble Collegiate Church, New York City, reassured his congregation that Christ is always with us in the storm.
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September 24, 2012 | St. Francis didn’t argue with those who thought he’d lost his mind, says an Episcopal priest. He admitted he was fool enough to believe that Jesus meant his disciples to live as he had instructed.
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September 24, 2012 | Clarity, agility, proximity -- the director of field education at Christian Theological Seminary offers these words to a pastor beginning her ministry.
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September 6, 2012 | Today’s Christians need to be as crazy as Jesus was, says the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina.