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Heidi Haverkamp
Heidi Haverkamp is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director, and author. Her latest book is Everyday Connections, a series of books with prompts and practices for each year of the Revised Common Lectionary.
So many parables (Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52)
Five is too many to preach about.
July 26, Ordinary 17A (Romans 8:26–39)
The Spirit is always seeking to pray on our behalf. Why didn’t anyone tell me this in seminary?
Parable and explanation? (Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43)
It is hard to square the Jesus of Matthew 13:36–43 with the Jesus of verses 24–30.
July 19, Ordinary 16A (Genesis 28:10–19a)
We all want to be Jacob, it seems, tagging the places we have been.
April 16, Easter 2A (John 20:19-31)
There is a blessing for those who have not come to believe and yet keep trying to see.
Don’t hold on (John 20:1-18)
Christ’s invitation to new life is almost always unfamiliar and surprising, even disconcerting.
Michelle Huneven’s homage to church life
A novel posing as a memoir that is really a sympathetic comedy
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This is my blood, donated for you
When my arm is stretched out and blood is trickling out of me, I find myself thinking of Jesus.
Drawing close to Howard Thurman
Two new books invite us to learn from what others have loved about the civil rights icon.
Adopted as God's family (Christmas 1B) (Galatians 4:4-7)
Six markers of what this means in the wake of the incarnation.

