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Justice Makes God’s Earth Rejoice
For many years, I learned more about how and why we should honor God’s earth from people outside the church than those within it. I
How Can White People Respond With Love to the Derek Chauvin Verdict?
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S4 E14 | Searching for Racial and Religious Identity as a Potawatomi Woman with Kaitlin Curtice
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Strength to Love: Words of Hope and Challenge
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Science for the Church: Becoming Like Trees
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Great or Grateful?
Penny expresses gratitude with abandon. Every Sunday morning throughout the pandemic, we have each written down our thanksgivings on an index card (see picture above).
S4 E13 | Disability, Friendship House, and Interdependent Community with Matt Floding
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Religion News Service: A white woman’s response to the ‘Prayer of a Weary Black Woman’
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The False Self and the True Self
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The Expansive Love of God
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