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Welcoming the Stranger

It will probably be obvious once you begin reading that I am not Theresa if for no other reason than I refer to being a

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Grateful Teaching

Yesterday was Teacher Appreciation Day (don’t worry—you can keep celebrating since the whole week is Teacher Appreciation Week).  And if you’re a teacher, there’s lot

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Change

It was a facetious question. More or less. “Have you ever considered planting churches that are very intentionally open and affirming of LGBT folk? Given

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Screen time

 I was getting my hair cut recently when I overheard the stylist at the chair next to me trying to make small talk with the

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Coming home

Just a short chapter into Rudy and Shirley Nelson’s richly furnished international thriller, The Risk of Returning, Ted Peterson, who calls himself a “lost child,” is

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Goodly Heritage

A few years ago we did some minor renovations and remodeling in our church building, converting a rather dank closet that was being used as

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Titles Matter

Seminary It was the first day of the new semester in seminary. First days are about introductions and setting the expectations. Important, but I always

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Patience

As a non-Roman Catholic, I should probably tread lightly on practices and a history that I know at best second hand.  So if in what

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