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Haitian schoolchildren gather outdoors during their day of studies.
** Va. Churches Sustain Haitian School
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By Mark Michael
Seven Virginia churches are strengthening their relationships with an Episcopal school in rural Haiti, despite four years of pandemic, gang violence, and political unrest that have prevented in-person travel to the island nation. Read on ([link removed]) .
** ‘Seven Hypotheses’ Stir Debate in Canadian Church
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By Sue Careless
A new report from the Anglican Church of Canada lays out seven “hypotheses” that focus on colonialism, structure, and expenses, and commends them for churchwide discussion. Read on ([link removed]) .
** Bishops Stand with Haitian Immigrants
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By TLC Staff
Bishop Peter Eaton of Southeast Florida: "Our Christian moral tradition insists that human beings can never be treated as means to any end, or robbed of their innate and God-given human dignity." Read on ([link removed]) .
** Rest in Peace: Everett Cooper Lees, 1976-2024
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By Douglas LeBlanc
The Rev. Dr. Everett Cooper Lees died September 11 at 48, following a brief fight against pancreatic cancer. He served at Christ Church, Tulsa, since 2011. Read on ([link removed]) .
** Book Review: Recovering Ties That Bind
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By Russell Levenson Jr.
John Wyatt speaks with power and truth to a post-COVID world that needs to find its way to the strength and vitality that come from one word: friend. Read on ([link removed]) .
** Partner Spotlights 2024
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By TLC Staff
The faithful partners that sustain the work of TLC share stories of fundraisers, children’s choirs, church fires, parish picnics, and bats in the nave. Read on ([link removed]) .
** Are All Religions Paths to God?
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By Jonathan Mitchican
Pope Francis recently said "all religions are paths to God." Jonathan Mitchican explains the consistency of Francis' remarks with the thought of previous popes and Vatican II. Read on ([link removed]) .
** Rethinking Paul’s Relationship to Judaism
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By Paul Wheatley
A review of Matthew Thiessen's new book, A Jewish Paul: The Messiah’s Herald to the Gentiles. Thiessen situates Paul’s thinking “within and not against the Jewish world that was part of the larger ancient Mediterranean world.” Read ([link removed]) on ([link removed]) .
** Chronic Illness and Prayer
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By Hannah Armidon
In an era of painkillers, anesthesia, and technology that can treat a multitude of diseases that used to be incurable, how do we rightly pray with and for people with chronic illness? Read on ([link removed]) .
** Meditation from a Corn Crib
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By Chip Prehn
"I remembered the utter darkness and the way my eyes needed to adjust to the bits of light," Chip Prehn writes. "And I remembered the way I was again blinded by sunlight when my cousins threw the door open." Are we likewise adjusting to the light of God's only Son? Read on ([link removed]) .
** My 9-Year-Old Taught Me to Play Catan
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By David Ney
David Ney has long played board games, but a recent game of Settlers of Catan revealed a deeper sense of what it means to be content in this finite life. Read on ([link removed]) .
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