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Pentecost — The Proclamation of Life becoming human growth hope light spirituality May 17, 2024

The Feast of Pentecost is one of the oldest feast days observed by the church.  In fact, it is the celebration of the birth of the church.  Unfortunately, our celebration has become little more than a...

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Palm Sunday — Daily Life on Display becoming human growth palm sunday spiritual journey spirituality Mar 21, 2024

Palm Sunday, we must admit, is a very strange worship service.  The service begins outside the church where we acknowledge, “Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.”  But almost immediat...

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Wilderness — The Way to Transformation becoming human growth spiritual journey spirituality Mar 02, 2024

The gospel lesson appointed for the first Sunday in Lent sets the stage for the season by recounting Jesus’ baptism and his experience in the wilderness.  Typically, when people recall Jesus’ baptism,...

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Lent — An Invitation to Grow becoming becoming human growth mystery mystery of life spiritual journey spirituality Feb 16, 2024

Our religious understanding of Lent has become truncated — reduced to little more than a manufactured attempt to merit God’s grace.  The focus the church has espoused is one of penance which most ofte...

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