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Requiem

Below, I want to share with you the homily I offered at my grandmother’s memorial service, six months ago now, just shy of her 94th

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Delight

by Meg Jenista “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day

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Rev. Robert Schuller, 1926-2015

  When Fred Manfred’s Gerrit Engleking, the raw-boned protagonist of The Secret Place, left northwest Iowa (under a cloud) and went to live in California

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Peace Be With You

“Peace be with you.” Following the resurrection and appearing to the disciples Jesus’ first words are peace. Peace is the expression of the resurrection Jesus

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Easter Tension

This Easter season I find myself reflecting on the tension of two realities: The hope of the resurrection and the killing of unarmed black men

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Taxes & Charity

Today, the day before those in the United States must file their incomes taxes, we take this opportunity to encourage you to support Perspectives/The Twelve

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Each Sunday a Little Easter

by Meg Jenista You’ve raided the children’s candy stash, the marshmallow peeps are hardening in the back corner of your pantry for another year and

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