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It’s been a great journey reflecting on the Beatitudes. I feel blessed to have been in the company of such thoughtful and reflective bloggers! As I look back on these important words of wisdom passed on to us, I am reminded of some wisdom I heard in a recent...
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In all honesty, I feel pretty ill-equipped to speak about persecution. As an educated, white, middle-class woman, it’s fair to say that I haven’t experienced much persecution. Unless you count the 7th grade boy who tortured me in middle school, this is...
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I’ve been waiting for this week to arrive since we started blogging about the Beatitudes. If there is one beatitude that was instilled in my mind and heart from an early age, it was this one. As the oldest of 3 children, I often found myself in arguments with my...
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I have spent the past two days at the Children’s Defense Fund Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee. Along with 50 others from around the country, I am here preparing to serve as the Executive Director of a Freedom School this summer. This 6 week summer program...
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Yesterday, I agreed to do a 3 hour walking tour of the neighborhood where I pastor. The neighborhood is the most densely populated and the most diverse region in the state of Ohio. In the midst of one of the largest universities in the country, live some of the more...
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Meek (adj)- showing patience and humility, gentle, submissive. There are a lot of words people have used to describe me over the years, but I have to say that meek has never been one of them. In fact, I think it’s fair to say that I was raised and encouraged to...
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I’ve been thinking about the kinds of things that we mourn this week. Most often we associate mourning with death, but our mourning may be about a relationship that is lost or broken, a planned future that is now forever changed, a loss of innocence, a missed...
