Free to Choose
When God decided to create beings to love, He also wanted them to love Him back. But for their love to be true and honest, He would need to give them...Read More
Arts & Essays: Spirituality & Faith
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Written By: Kirsten Roggenkamp, Jan LatshaApril 14, 2021“Nothing but the Blood of Jesus”
“Come quickly,” the guard told me when I answered his knock. “Nalamai is in labor and needs a ride to the maternity clinic.”
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Written By: Barry CaseyApril 13, 2021After Easter
The death and bodily resurrection of the one you love most in the world pretty much runs you through the gamut from fear to tears to awe and then...
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Written By: Barry CaseyMarch 30, 2021Carry That Weight
God-hauntedness has run like a dark thread through my life. Alongside a quietly intense religious upbringing there was the constant presence of the...
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Written By: Barry CaseyMarch 16, 2021The Pearl, the Cello, the Iceberg
The pandemic pares us down to the essentials. What can we live without, what can we do without and still have a life? What is of value, even that...
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Written By: Barry CaseyMarch 02, 2021The Spirit Catches Us and We Rise
When our spirit responds to the Spirit, when we open up to all that God promises, we feel ourselves to be children of God. If, after that, we feel...
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Written By: Dennis HollingseadFebruary 26, 2021Psalm 88 (NKJV)
We should never stop believing in God’s mercy and forgiveness. Never stop reading when you are depressed. Read on!
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Written By: Roland J. HillFebruary 25, 2021Black Grace — Part 2
But for Black people, what does the Incarnation of God look like as it confronts systems and ideologies designed not just to subjugate, but to...
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Written By: Gary HuffakerFebruary 17, 2021Dr. Hilgert’s Chess Table
This chess table, or the memory of it, became associated with other memories, dreams, fantasies, and concepts as time has passed. These accretions...
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Written By: Eden EisnerFebruary 12, 2021Our Lady at the Well
In most sermons I have listened to, the woman at the well is usually introduced as a loser — five and a half husbands, no lady friends (women usually...
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