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Katie Davis-Crowder
Nov 25, 20233 min read
Liberating Possibilities in The Call of the King
As far as images of God go, I am really not a fan of Our Lord, King of the Universe. The emphasis on God as dominating male conqueror,...
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Mary Beth Keenan
Nov 19, 20232 min read
Worrying to Dust
If I am honest, I relate the most to the final servant in today’s Gospel. When I receive something good or special, I worry over it: What...
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Jessica Curbis
Nov 11, 20232 min read
Wait and Seek
Today's Readings We are so close to Advent we can practically smell it. Our readings today make that very clear. Even though we are still...
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Caroline Head
Nov 4, 20232 min read
Finding Peace
The leaves are falling and the evening darkness creeps ever earlier as the end of the liturgical year draws closer. In just a few more...
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Sue Delvaux
Oct 21, 20231 min read
Diversity in the Ordinary
Today's Readings Here we are amid the fall, closing in on the cusp of the great Advent season with many of us perhaps enrolled in...
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Mary Beth Keenan
Oct 8, 20232 min read
Inviting God into Our Anxieties
Today's Readings Today’s passage from Paul’s Letter to the Philippians is a source of comfort for many people that I know. However, for...
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Allison Bobzien
Sep 30, 20233 min read
Not only...but also
It was my eighth-grade graduation, and I was standing alone in front of an audience. My small school had a tradition where each student...
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Sara Ann Conneely
Sep 23, 20232 min read
Abundance, Not Scarcity
Today's Readings When reading today’s Gospel, I was sincerely challenged on a response to the parable of the Workers in the Vineyard. All...
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Jenny Snarski
Sep 16, 20233 min read
Be Forgiven and Forgive
Today's Readings One of the phrases I have unabashedly preached as a parent is: There’s nothing we can’t work through, as long as you’re...
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Patty Breen
Sep 3, 20232 min read
Be a Lifelong Learner
Today's Readings One of the greatest gifts of being a lover of books and good words, is the constant invitation to learn and grow. Books...
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Sue Delvaux
Aug 27, 20232 min read
An Ordinary Sunday
Today's Readings So here we are at the seemingly benign Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time. So many major holidays of the church have...
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Allison Bobzien
Aug 20, 20233 min read
Throw Me a Bone
Today's Readings I am learning to dig deeply into the places that hurt The Canaanite woman knows she is not of Jesus’ people and yet she...
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Kathleen O'Brien
Aug 13, 20231 min read
Taking a Leap to See Jesus
Today's Readings Today’s gospel sets the scene of the disciples at sea braving a harsh night. Imagine huge waves crashing into your boat...
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Josie Diebold
Aug 6, 20232 min read
Taking Time on the Mountaintop
Today's Readings Today’s gospel, the Transfiguration, transports me back in time to the hollers and hills of West Virginia…to Nazareth...
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Laura G. Hancock
Jul 30, 20233 min read
Rightly Ordered
Today's Readings I’ve been having very vivid dreams lately. Almost every night, I’ve been dreaming about people from throughout my life...
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Julia Erdlen
Jul 23, 20232 min read
Imperfect Attempts
Today's Readings "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole...
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Jenny Snarski
Jul 16, 20233 min read
In Collaboration with Creation
Today's Readings The seed that falls in the fertile field, Under joy and showers, good fruit it will yield. The Word goes forth from the...
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Rachel Conrad Carlson
Jul 9, 20233 min read
The Gentle Mastery of Christ
Today's Readings Gentleness. Isn’t it true that we all long to be treated gently? Isn’t gentleness what we’re searching for when we rush...
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Mary Beth Keenan
Jul 2, 20232 min read
When Singing of God’s Kindness is Hard
Today's Readings A few years ago I would have rolled my eyes at a Psalm like today’s. Wading through deep bouts of chronic depression and...
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Katie Davis-Crowder
Jun 25, 20233 min read
“Yes, and…”: Beautiful and Terrible Things
Today's Readings Today’s readings remind me of the popular improv game called “Yes, and.” I played the “Yes, and” game semi-regularly in...
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