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The Burden of a Not-So-Burdensome Commandment

Living Out Love In the Real World.

by Jodi-Renee Adams

Epistle Reading:  1 John 5.1-6

For Sunday, May 23, Year B − Easter 6

John insists in a kind of circular argument that if you are a child of GOD...

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The Conversion of the Ethiopian Eunuch

Or the Conversion of Phillip?

by Nadia Bolz-Weber

New Testament Reading: Acts 8:26-40

For Sunday, May 6, 2012 Year B—Easter 5

In my childhood Bible, this text was titled “The Conversion of the...

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Vines and Branches?

I Want To Be a Sunflower For Jesus

by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Gospel Reading: John 15:1-8

For Sunday, May 6, 2012 Year B—Easter 5

I’m nothing if not independent. Reportedly my first sentence was “do it...

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My Shepherd?

Is there any such thing as individual salvation?

by Russell Rathbun

Psalm Reading: Psalm 23

For Sunday, April 29, 2012—Easter 4

There are some scriptures that will for ever be in the King James...

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Sheep? Sheeps? Sheepses?

Is there any such thing as individual salvation?

by Russell Rathbun

Gospel Reading: John 10:11-18

For Sunday, April 29, 2012—Easter 4

Jesus really talks a lot in John. And he repeats himself a lot....

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Omnipotent Coercion

Did God kill Jesus or not?

By Nanette Sawyer

New Testament Reading: Acts 3:12-21

For Sunday, April 22, 2012: Year B—Easter 3

After Jesus had ascended and the Holy Spirit had descended, the disciples...

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Really Alive

Or, do ghosts eat fish?

By Nanette Sawyer

Gospel Reading: Luke 24:36b-49

For Sunday, April 22, 2012:  Year B—Easter 3

I believe the testimony of the disciples who experienced Jesus’s presence with...

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Churchtopia

Is the Appeal to a Golden Age a Recipe for Disaster?

by Rev. Mark Stenberg, Ph.D.

New Testament Reading: Acts 4:32-35

For Sunday, April 15, 2012: Year B—Easter 2

"There was not any needy person among...

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Honoring the Skeptic

 What's so bad about being a pending Christian?

by Rev. Mark Stenberg, Ph.D.

 Gospel Reading: John 20:19-31

 For Sunday, April 15, 2012: Year B—Easter 2

"Doubting Thomas." His name lives in infamy,...

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Look, But Don't Touch?

What about anointing the body?

by Unvirtuous Abbey

Gospel Reading: Mark 16: 1-8

For Sunday, April 9, 2012: Year B – Easter Sunday

The most hopeful woman I know has a head full of brain tumours. Yet,...

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