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Chicago Diocese
To Sell Valuable HQ

By Kirk Petersen
The Diocese of Chicago owns a modest headquarters on the edge of the luxury shopping district known as the Magnificent Mile. The five-story building is dwarfed by nearby skyscrapers, and has more office space than the diocese needs. That suggests a course of action, and the diocese has announced plans to sell the building.
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$8 Million Seized From Church of South India

By Mark Michael
India's government alleges that the Church of South India Trust Association sold a parcel of land that the church did not actually own, and says the church's proceeds from the $8 million sale should go to the government.
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Churches Seek
Tech Solutions

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald
It's been obvious that a lot of churches have had to learn more about live-streaming video than they ever thought would be necessary. But behind the scenes, the pandemic is driving the growth of church management software (ChMS).
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Ethics: The Codes
Of Chosenness

By Walter Brueggemann
Starting from the identity of ancient Israel as God’s chosen people in the Bible, it was easy to recast Western whites as God’s chosen people. This move was accomplished by an imaginative retelling of the biblical narrative of the “promised land” and “conquest.”
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Podcast: Theologian Prays With His Violin

On the podcast: Theologian and long-time Covenant contributor ([link removed]) Ephraim Radner performs and shares classic musical texts. Violin "readings" from his home are interspersed with reflections on discipleship and prayer.
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What Are
The Dancers Saying?

By David Ney
At his first ballet, my young son longs in vain for a narrative of words. My theological and scriptural studies have convinced me that the words the violins and the dancers speak, but that they also fail to speak, are given in Scripture.
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Our Great Inheritance

By Paul (H. Matthew Lee)
The prayer book is sublime because its language is so authentically Christian, so authentically human. Well-meaning as our church might be in all this, our preaching is banal, our theology incoherent, our discipline nonexistent, because they are not grounded in the genuine prayers of the Church, shaped by the fullness of Scripture and hallowed by the witness of the saints.
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7th Commandment: Don't Cheat on God

By Brandt L. Montgomery
My father and I learned a lot about faith from his adultery, and from my mother's vengeance. Great is God’s faithfulness to us. Let us, then, be strengthened in our relationship with others by being faithful to him. Resist adultery; don’t cheat on God.
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