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The First Sunday of Advent

There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. Isaiah 11:1 by Beth Carroll

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Contentment

Grandma Theresa’s heart is extremely weak. No surprise, as it’s been pumping nonstop since before she was born in July of 1912. That’s the year

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Thanksgiving Stories and Values

In the first chapter entitled “Storeytelling,” of his 2009 book, Jonathan Safran Foer writes, “We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed

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The Three G’s of Thanksgiving

As I prepared to write for this Thanksgiving Day, I returned to previous years’ blogs. One in particular, a reflection on the theater of Thanksgiving, stood

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Soup Kitchen Church

I’ve written about the weekly Soup Kitchen Church that I lead multiple times on The Twelve. It’s both the most demanding and the greatest joy

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