Tag: justice
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Of Grapes and Wine [Sermon]
Mary and I used to watch do-it-yourself film festivals, usually based on a director or actor. One of these was the Alan Rickman film festival. We didn’t watch every one of the 72 films and TV shows he was in, but we watched some of the highlights: I think we watched Robin Hood: Prince of…
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Interrupted! [Sermon]
In 2014, the Black Lives Matter movement was sparked by the police killings of 18 year old Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri and 43 year old Eric Garner in Staten Island New York. In April 2015, 25 year olf Freddie Gray died of a severed spine after being transported in a police van, likely bounced…
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Temptation [Sermon]
Most modern Biblical scholars do not think the Genesis passage is literally about the first two human beings. It’s okay if you do. Jesus never commands us to have any particular interpretation of this story. The problem with taking this passage literally is that it tends toward a very simple understanding of what it teaches.…
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The End Is Near!? [Sermon]
There are a lot of punctuation marks and other special characters. Just in English we have periods, commas, colons, semicolons, hyphens, en dashes (which are longer than hyphens), em dashes (which are longer then en dashes), at signs, hashtags or octothorps (the tic-tac-toe looking symbol), dollar and cent signs, ampersands (the and sign), carets (the…
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DOC General Assembly Adopts Resolution Opposing Project 2025 And Other Policies
You may read the full resolution here: https://cdn.ga.disciples.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/16194325/GA-2515-4.6.2025-11pm-Project-2025final.pdf
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What Would You Give to Change Things? [Sermon]
Do you make your bed in the morning? It seems futile. You’re just going to mess up the bed covers overnight. Why bother? How about meteorologists? They do a weather forecast, and the next day they just have to do another one. The old forecast is obsolete. And washing dishes. My mom used to sing…