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Unexpected Gifts
Read more: Unexpected GiftsUnexpected yet thoughtful gifts are the best. Many years ago, during a particularly difficult Christmas season, we received a package from my husband’s brother and…
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Book Review – Building A Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity
Read more: Book Review – Building A Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and SensitivityLast weekend there was a hullabaloo of a Roman Catholic nature in the Twittersphere. Father James Martin, a Jesuit priest, was disinvited from three speaking…
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Awakening to The Christian Social Imperative
Read more: Awakening to The Christian Social ImperativeRaising the consciousness of the Church for the social imperative didn’t happen overnight. Here are four books that have historically shaped social justice in the…
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Bibliography for the Christian Social Imperative
Read more: Bibliography for the Christian Social ImperativeIf you’ve been convicted, as I have, about Christian social responsibility, you need to get yourself informed. Here is a selected bibliography of books that…
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The Justice Conference 2017 – Report Out
Read more: The Justice Conference 2017 – Report OutI’ve been concerned about justice from the first time I whined as a child that something wasn’t fair. My parents told me the same thing…
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Who is Caesar? – The Justice Conference 2017
Read more: Who is Caesar? – The Justice Conference 2017A dramatization of the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar caused consternation on the right for the similarity of the title character to Donald Trump. Never mind…
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A Moderate View of Immigration
Read more: A Moderate View of ImmigrationOne of the advantages (if it can be called that) of having been raised by ultra-conservative parents is that interactions with my family of origin…
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LoveEveryoneAlways – Refugees and Immigrants Too?
Read more: LoveEveryoneAlways – Refugees and Immigrants Too?Love refugees and immigrants everywhere, always? My church has been pushing the theme #loveeveryonealways lately. Does this apply to refugees and immigrants? Donald Trump and his…
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Obscure Women of the Bible
Read more: Obscure Women of the BibleOriginals, Verse 1 I have stayed awake thinking of women who barely make the pages of the Bible. Whose contribution may well have been greater…
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Is Neil Gorsuch Worth the Cost?
Read more: Is Neil Gorsuch Worth the Cost?One of the reasons Trump won the evangelical vote was his lip service to the pro-life cause. The consensus within evangelical circles is that their…
