Reflections for

Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany, Feb 24, 2019

Genesis 45:3-11, 15; Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40; 1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50; Luke 6:27-38

Living by the Word

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Revelation 22:12–14, 16–17, 20–21; John 17:20–26

Apr 30, 2013 by Barbara Rossing

Barbara Kingsolver explores the dystopic effects of climate change in Flight Behavior, a novel about a family and community struggling through the rainiest winter in memory.

American Soundings

Life after life after death

May 17, 2012 by Rodney Clapp

While Christian scholars have long questioned body-soul dualism, it remains common in church circles. This may finally be changing.

Faith Matters

Feedback frenzy

Jan 06, 2012 by Thomas G. Long

Everyone wants my opinion these days: airlines, hotels, Amazon. How healthy can it be to think of life as a series of episodes to rate up or down?

From the CCblogs Network

Blessed are the merciful

Sep 30, 2011 by Dora Dueck

I belong to a Mennonite-Catholic dialogue group which meets several times a year. Our assignment for this week’s meeting was a personal reflection on the Beatitudes, broadly, and then more specifically, in choosing one beatitude we were particularly “attracted” to at this point — in not more than seven minutes each! The contributions were varied, and all interesting.

Faith Matters

Talking with the enemy

Learning patience, developing habits

May 31, 2003 by L. Gregory Jones

In Wendell Berry’s novel Jayber Crow, Jayber is a barber in Port William, Kentucky, who interacts with a variety of people as they come to his barbershop. He struggles to get along with Troy Chatham, an acquisitive agribusinessman whom Jayber thinks is destroying the land in their county.

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