Articles
Wild Feminine
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Sea Raven
Text: Luke 7:36-8:3; 1 Kings 21:1-21; 2 Samuel 11:26-12:10, 13-15; Galatians 2:15-21 The woman with the alabaster jar appears in all four gospels. She is unnamed in the three synoptics, but the writer of John’s Gospel says...
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Affirming Acceptance
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Don Murray
There was Jay, welcoming people with a smile and exuding a joie de vivre that spread throughout the group gathering for worship at St. Andrew’s United Church last Sunday (May 10). This was a special Sunday. Not only was it Mother’s...
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Sacred Marriage, Sacred Sex, Sacred Text- the Song of Solomon
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Sea Raven
The Song of Solomon would never have become sacred scripture if it had not been interpreted as allegory. In the traditional Jewish understanding, the Song recounts God’s love for Israel and the history of their relationship. For Christians...
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Books
Religionless Religion: Beyond Belief to Understanding
In these perilous times when the very survival of the human species is at stake, there is a desperate need for wisdom to provide guidance. The sacred literature of the world's major religious traditions is a source for such wisdom, but it has...
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Setting Jesus Free
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John Churcher
The Bible and the Church have become more or less irrelevant to the contemporary world. Sadly the message of Jesus, totally relevant to all times, has been ignored and lost because it is seen as being part of the Church that is now rejected...
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I Want to be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth
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Brenda Peterson
In Brenda Peterson’s unusual memoir, fundamentalism meets deep ecology. The author’s childhood in the high Sierra with her forest ranger father led her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist relatives prepared...
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Educational Materials
Servant or Sucker? Wise and Compassionate Ways to Help the Poor, A DVD
No one wants to be a sucker in these situations but at the same time Jesus’ call to help the poor echoes in our hearts and minds. Servant or Sucker? Wise and Compassionate Ways to Help the Poor helps viewers discern appropriate, Christ-centered...
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First Light: Jesus and the Kingdom
Featuring John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg Why did Jesus happen when he happened? Why the confluence of the Baptism movement of John and the Kingdom movement of Jesus? Why the tiny villages around the Lake? Why the confrontations...
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Integral Life Presents: The Future of Christianity. Featuring Ken Wilber and Father Thomas Keating
Here is an exciting new resource for churches and individuals that are trying to sort out where they are in relationship to their understanding of the Christian faith in a post-modern world....
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Sermons
What About Sin?
Obviously how we think about sin changes how we think about repentance, forgiveness and reconciliation. If we understand sin to be primarily personal… the burden is on us individually to change our behavior. Change in personal...
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A Voice in the Wilderness
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Sea Raven
The underlying assumption in this study of Luke (and eventually Acts and the authentic letters of Paul) is that Luke wrote his gospel and his account of the Acts of the Apostles as a subversive counter to Roman oppression, and the Roman imperial...
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Sermon Should Religious Progressives Still Speak of "Sin"?
By: Rev. David McClean. “Sin” is not a word about problems with our body images or our bad relationships or our tempers or our spending habits, and how we can, in some piecemeal way, fix them. It isn’t a word about specific...
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Worship Materials
Is That You God?
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Jim Burklo
(This will appear this week on the www.patheos.com interfaith website - as my response to a challenge to bloggers to answer the question "Who/What Is God?" in 100 words or less. I'd love to see your responses to this challenge!)...
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Mojados
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Jim Burklo
“Mojados in the Promised Land”: words by Jim Burklo and Lisa Atkinson, music by Lisa Atkinson and George Kincheloe, on “Connie’s Songbird”, CD by Lisa Atkinson, www.atkinsonkincheloe.com, reprinted with permission....
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WSCF Universal Day of Prayer
First celebrated in 1898, the Universal Day of Prayer for Students is observed on the third Sunday of February; in 2010 it is celebrated on February 21st. The UDPS is one of the oldest ecumenical days of prayer. In line with WSCF's theme...
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