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By Dr. Glen Berger
From glenberger.net
Through the ritual of Passover we learn a story about the liberation of the human spirit. It is a timeless tale of the yearning of all peoples to be released from the yoke of oppression and becoming free.
This story recounts events that in some form actually happened, but it also symbolizes an inner journey ... read more
From glenberger.net
Through the ritual of Passover we learn a story about the liberation of the human spirit. It is a timeless tale of the yearning of all peoples to be released from the yoke of oppression and becoming free.
This story recounts events that in some form actually happened, but it also symbolizes an inner journey ... read more
By Charles Redfern
From Huffpost
Imagine my shock when I saw how my childhood's domesticated Palm Sunday steered me into a domesticated Holy Week with a domesticated Jesus and a domesticated faith. It was a coloring-book Palm Sunday, a Palm Sunday of the early '60s suburban, mainline church -- before the assassinations and Vietnam and the riots --... read more
From Huffpost
Imagine my shock when I saw how my childhood's domesticated Palm Sunday steered me into a domesticated Holy Week with a domesticated Jesus and a domesticated faith. It was a coloring-book Palm Sunday, a Palm Sunday of the early '60s suburban, mainline church -- before the assassinations and Vietnam and the riots --... read more
Confessions of a Mormon bishop
Posted March 20, 2013 by Charlie Van Dyke in Traditional Paths in Conversation
By Russ Hill
I pulled into my driveway at 12:30 this morning.
I sat in the car in front of our dark house for a few minutes. Everyone inside was asleep. The whole neighborhood was still. And yet my mind was racing. So many questions. So many emotions. Sadness. Hope. Inadequacy.
Welcome to the life of a Mormon bishop.
Like pastors, prie... read more
I pulled into my driveway at 12:30 this morning.
I sat in the car in front of our dark house for a few minutes. Everyone inside was asleep. The whole neighborhood was still. And yet my mind was racing. So many questions. So many emotions. Sadness. Hope. Inadequacy.
Welcome to the life of a Mormon bishop.
Like pastors, prie... read more
A Deeper Understanding of DIscipleship
Posted March 12, 2013 by John Cross in Traditional Paths in Conversation
My first year of seminary in St. Paul Minnesota was not easy for me. I think it had to do with so many German theologians who loved big words: “die Gerechtigkeit, Kathedralentscheidung, die Offenbarung, der Zusammenhang, Glaubensbekenntnis, Kirchengeschichte..." for starters. I had spent three summers as a Bible camp director and still liked “Kum ... read more
Costly, But Worth It (Part 2)
Posted March 11, 2013 by John Cross in Traditional Paths in Conversation
“Costly, but Worth it!) Part 2
I never regretted spending the summer of 1971 at Mount Zion Lutheran Church in Detroit. When I visited my daughter and family in Michigan recently, we drove by the corner of McNichols and Gratiot. That church, once 4000 members strong in the 50s, closed down many years ago having never found a way to relate to changi... read more
I never regretted spending the summer of 1971 at Mount Zion Lutheran Church in Detroit. When I visited my daughter and family in Michigan recently, we drove by the corner of McNichols and Gratiot. That church, once 4000 members strong in the 50s, closed down many years ago having never found a way to relate to changi... read more
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