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“The children were having breakfast. This was not a pleasant sight.” So begins Jill Murphy’s children’s book, Five Minutes’ Peace, a children’s book that parents will often offer to read to their children. Because although the characters in the book are elephants, a mother and three children aged about seven and below, the story describes […]
What can I tell you about courage? I missed the Viet Nam draft by a few years and was never called to go into a battlefield and face enemy fire like some of you have. Or on the flip side, I did not have to wrestle with declaring myself a conscientious objector, going before a […]
Two weeks ago, I spent a week of study leave at the Chautauqua Institute, an amazing summer vacation learning community that was started 150 years ago by a Methodist minister and a businessman to provide training for Sunday School teachers and other lay leaders. Still going strong, the community includes denominational houses like the Presbyterian […]
Last week, in a very helpful sermon, Taylor preached on three texts and reminded us all about what it means to follow the path of Jesus Christ, a path which is often so different from other paths in our world, especially in this election season. If you think of Taylor’s sermon in terms of Google […]
When you step back and think about it, can you believe what we have just done? We have jut read words written probably about 2500 years go about a people who were traveling through the wilderness of the Sinai Peninsula over 3000 years ago. And now, we are going to say how what happened to […]
Do you remember what it was like when you, or someone close to you, brought your new-born on or daughter home from the hospital? How many pictures or videos you took? How little they did – but how long you could just gaze on them, your heart bursting with love? I remember one of the […]
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