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Freedom and Its Contradictions

Fourth of July festivities, where I live, have already begun. The shocking and randomly timed booms of consumer fireworks remind me that I’m not in

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Two Weeks

It’s been two weeks now since the massacre at Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E. church. Two weeks of learning just how apt the name Emanuel is for

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When Healing Hurts

By April Fiet Over the past several months, I’ve become much closer friends with my dermatologist than I ever really wanted to be. From biopsies

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Legacy #5, Evangelism 101

By Helen Luhrs When my mom died this winter, I realized the generation of my parents was gone. What I learned from them about faith

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Slow Knowledge

Before the terrible shooting in Charleston on June 17, there was no Wikipedia page for the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Over the next 36

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Tintoretto had it right

I am no expert, no theologian, no art historian; but for what it’s worth, I think Tintoretto had it right because the scene must have

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Why Stay?

“When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child…” Growing up, the story was

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3 Revs Reflect on General Synod

I’m excited to welcome Reverend Abby Norton-Levering (Ministries Coordinator at the Regional Synod of Albany) and Reverend Marla Rotman (Pastor at Peace Church in Eagan, Minnesota)

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