Microbes in the manger
God is humbly present in every living creature. Maybe closer than we’ve imagined.
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Eight homilies for practicing presence
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Microbes in the manger
Eight homilies for practicing presence
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Microbes in the manger
Eight homilies for practicing presence
December 8, Advent 2C (Baruch 5:1-9; Luke 1:68-79; Philippians 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6)
Voices
Heidi Neumark
Advent in the squatters’ camp
As a human rights worker during Argentina’s Dirty War, I learned to read the signs.
Jonathan Tran
Keep swinging for the fences
My decades of church life have been full of the stuff one might expect from a place that promises God and only sometimes delivers.
Isaac S. Villegas
Divine silence
A Quaker colleague taught me how stillness exercises agency, how it acts upon worshipers.
Debie Thomas
Ancestral blessings
I attended a talk by a pastor who begins services by asking, “Who do you bring into worship with you?”
Brian Bantum
Stretched between life’s verses
The future is scary: we simply don’t know, and it flies toward us anyway.
Yolanda Pierce
Lessons from the land of lake effect snow
Life can be as unpredictable as the weather in upstate New York. But God’s steadfast love endures forever.