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 Yesterday, the Lectionary had us thinking on Salt.  “You are the salt of the earth,” Jesus said.  The Apostle Paul said our conversation is...

 New Year’s Day always coincides with the Feast of the Holy Name in Christendom. On the 8th day Jesus was circumcised and given his name as ...

 More on Hope this morning.  St. Paul said, “Suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character, and character produces hope.” What ...

Yesterday we lit the candle of Hope, the first light of the Advent. Afterward, we shared in our Service of Comfort and Healing in the beauti...

 In a powerful scene in one of the Gospels the disciples return jubilant from a tremendously successful campaign in which the demons surrend...

 Tomorrow is World Communion Sunday and I’m remembering three courageous women — Bettye Poole and Ida Hannah, two blacks students at Mississ...

 Forgiveness of something important is always difficult and oftentimes morally complex. Certainly this is true for the forgiveness of monet...