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Jesus and Harriet: Called and Unlikely Liberators

“It’s hard to believe resurrection/freedom can happen when folx have been walking dead for so long…hungry for so long…low for so long. It is hard to believe that wins can happen for them when they have been told for so long that they were losing…losers…a lost cause. After white supremacy and patriarchy tells us we are nothing for so long, it is understandable that we come to underestimate others and ourselves, assuming that we’re just not ‘fill-in-the-blank’ enough to do the thing that needs to be done – that we long for and that the world needs.”

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What Would Dorothy Do?

“How often do you and I experience testimonies – stories of God – that push against our understanding of how God has been revealed to us through scripture or through our own experience?  How do we handle these conflicting narratives?”

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Brigid of Kildare

“St. Brigid has been called the Lady of the Threshold. This image of threshold has also been used to represent navigating life’s transitions, birth, new careers, etc. An Episcopal priest named Robert Jennings wrote that transitions could also mean a test of character, a change of time, daily occasions when we transition from talking to listening, from being unaware to fully aware. In one way or another we are all on thresholds.”

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Music for Holy Week

by Richard Gray For many people, the music of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is instantly recognizable. Here in the Twin Cities, the oratorio (a sacred

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Publicly, Joyfully, and Courageously

The goal for the march on Palm Sunday is to reclaim what true Christianity is and emphasize that to be a Christian is to choose love: that the core of our faith is to love our neighbors, feed the hungry, and care for the poor. 

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