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Who is welcome at the communion table?

Maybe the grace experienced in the sacrament precedes belief.

by Peter W. Marty

A psalm of waiting as the pandemic continues

All plans feel like grass withering in the sun these days.

by Brian Bantum

How a Serbian Orthodox congregation in Kansas City offers hospitality beyond the liturgy

At Thelma’s Kitchen, every table is a holy table and every guest a living icon.

by Michael Plekon

         

Living by the Word for October 3 (Ordinary 27B)

Israel’s claim that all people are created in God’s image is strikingly egalitarian.

by Jesper Svartvik

Ordinary 27B archives

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Clock: Essays by readers

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Clock.”

Watching The Green Knight and Nine Days on the big screen

Both movies made me grateful for directors with risky, new visions—and the space to enjoy them.

by Kathryn Reklis

         
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