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Reflections 6 – 12 May
The Spirit moves ahead of our debates, slipping past the gates we build and settling among those we least expect. God keeps rewriting the boundaries of belonging. Faith begins not in arguments won but in the courage to be surprised by grace.
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Reflections 29 April – 5 May
“Thin places” — those moments where heaven presses close to ordinary life. From Nazareth’s blind familiarity to Paul rising after being left for dead, these readings trace a God who speaks through the overlooked, redirects the willing, and refuses to be contained. What if the grace we’re searching for is already here, wearing a familiar…
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Reflections 22 – 28 April
22 April, Wednesday Severe persecution scattered them throughout the regions; the seed that is not scattered cannot take root anywhere beyond where it already is. Those who were scattered went from place to place proclaiming the word; displacement and proclamation are not opposites in this story. Unclean spirits came out crying with loud shouts; liberation…
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Luke 24:13-35 (NRSV)
Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And…
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Reflections 15 – 21 April
When the prison doors swing open at night, freedom isn’t an invitation to hide — it’s a summons back to the place of danger. From flogged apostles leaving the council rejoicing to Stephen’s face shining before men too hardened to see it, these times pulse with one unsettling truth: the Spirit moves not around suffering…
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Reflections 8 – 14 April
8 April, Wednesday The man at the gate Beautiful had been there every day; proximity to the holy place is no guarantee of encounter with the holy. Peter and John had neither silver nor gold; what they offered instead was the only currency that never devalues. Healing happens through the name, not through the healers;…
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Reflections 1 – 7 April 2026
Betrayal hides in the ordinary — passed bread, shared cups, small surrenders before the larger fall. Yet the same table that holds our turning away also holds our return. Joy and fear occupy the same body; the Resurrection does not tidy away the trembling. It sends us running into Galilee, toward everyone — because the…
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In the Easter story, women are the first to proclaim the resurrection – but…
Women made up only 14% of U.S. congregation leaders as of 2018-19, despite constituting nearly a quarter of professional clergy. That gap sits uneasily alongside Easter Gospel narratives in which women are the first — and sometimes only — witnesses to the resurrection.
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Reflections 25 – 31 March
Mary’s simple yes births salvation as Abraham’s children pick up stones against the eternal I Am. The good shepherd voluntarily lays down his life, transforming death into gift through freely chosen love. In a busy week, palm branches wave but crucify tomorrow; hosannas turn to hatred. Yet love never wavers, never chooses escape.
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Ending the Trump-Netanyahu war in the Middle East
The question of whether the world is already in the opening phase of World War III is raised with unusual directness. The Israel-US war on Iran, the threat to global energy supplies, and the absence of any credible peace process combine into a scenario analysts describe as a genuine civilizational risk.
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