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Tessa McBrayer
Tessa McBrayer, an M.Div. graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School, lives in New York City.
Jesus' highly mobile life and ours
I move a lot. So did Jesus and the disciples.
When the apostles went with another candidate
While the apostles welcome Matthias into his new role, I want to sit with Barsabbas, the one who was rejected.
My long loneliness and the church's love
As I prepared to be ordained recently, my mind kept returning to the people in my life who might be perplexed by this decision. I have friends and colleagues who wonder, quite justly, what the church has to offer that one cannot find elsewhere. I thought about how I might describe what pulls me toward ministry and the church in particular.
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