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Unexpected Gifts
Unexpected 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
Last 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
Raising 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
If 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
I’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
A 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
One 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?
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
Originals, 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?
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…
