The Secret, Intimate Work

by Lauren Winner

Epistle Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a

For Sunday, January 27, 2013: Year C—Epiphany 3

There are plenty of fun ways to avoid the real challenge of this passage.

I like to ask...

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Exiles in the Empire of Capital

Is there an oppression and a suffering so internalized that we do not even recognize it as suffering?

by Russell Rathbun

Epistle Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-9

For Sunday, May 1 , 2011: Year A - Easter 2

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No Body Loves Me

How do we preach our faith as physical and alive when the Body we are supposed to love is nowhere to be found?

by Russell Rathbun

Gospel Reading: John 20:19-31

For Sunday, May 1 , 2011: Year A -...

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Foreshadowing

Is our flesh so bad?

by Mike Stavlund 

Epistle Reading:  Romans 8:6-11

For Sunday, Apr. 10, 2011:  Year A - Lent 5  

Resurrection is everywhere this week. Lazarus rises, the Psalmist cries out from...

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Collapsing Our Dichotomies

In Defense of Flesh, Blood, Fat, and Dust

by Carol Howard Merritt

Epistle Reading: 1 Corinthians 3:1-9

For Sunday, February 13, 2011: Year A - Epiphany 6

I grew up in Florida, in a little beach...

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