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James Gould

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Disenfranchised Grief

I’m feeling a great disconnect from how my church is managing its life of faith in the gathering darkness.

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Beloved Community in Dachau

I spent the morning at Dachau Concentration Camp memorial site, just outside Munich. I wandered the grounds and exhibitions: the roll call area, barracks, infirmary,

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Just Mercy

Energized discussion was already underway when I walked into my college classroom. Students were talking about the news report. A young man, stone drunk, had

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A Ghostly Little Sermon

Charles Dickens’ “ghostly little tale,” A Christmas Carol is one of individual conversion and transformation. But tucked away in a short dialogue between Ebenezer Scrooge

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Special Olympics as Beth-el

The three Abrahamic religions share the story of Jacob’s wonderful dream (Genesis 28). As Desmond Tutu tells it in his Children of God Storybook Bible,

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