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** Googling my way out of a pastoral relationship
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The man turned in a visitor card. I pulled up my web browser.
by Ragan Sutterfield
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** We should celebrate the “death day” of our baptism each year
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Baptism is about dying with Christ. Why don't more churches talk about this?
by Frank G. Honeycutt
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** What if classrooms were shaped by a restorative justice sensibility?
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Creating space for a different kind of engagement
by Debra Dean Murphy
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** A black pastor writes to the white church about its complicity in oppression
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Lenny Duncan’s letter is full of hope and fury, love and lament—like Paul’s epistles.
by Tim Brown
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** Can clergy earn back the public trust they’ve lost?
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Respect for pastors is at an all-time low. What would help?
by Peter W. Marty
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** Living by the Word for Sunday, August 11
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Jesus is the thief, and the powers of this world own the house in which we’re waiting.
by Hardy Kim
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** Trees communicate with one another. I’m trying to listen.
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My favorite is a 100-year-old male cottonwood. I call him Grandfather.
by Belden C. Lane
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** Hilma af Klint’s new ways of seeing
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Years before Kandinsky, a Swedish woman created magnificent abstract paintings.
by Stephanie Paulsell
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** After the personal salvation gospel
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The world won't be saved by my prayers or virtuous desires.
by Angela Denker
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** Elaine Pagels’s lifelong search for the sacred
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Pagels vividly recounts her spiritual experiences. But she won’t let herself be bound by any tradition.
by Aaron Klink
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