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What’s in your frame?

I’m guessing most, all? of us have watched more films this year than past years.  The pandemic came at a time when just about any show ever made can be streamed into our homes. I love how films can open up whole new worlds to us, but I’m also interested…

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Mary’s power

This coming Sunday belongs to Mary, the mother of Jesus, the peasant girl, the God-bearer.  Mary’s partnership with God is what makes Advent possible.  In this, she is a model for all of us.  The angel comes, at some unexpected time, and gives an invitation into risk, the unknown, sacrifice,…

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Enjoyment

Why do we enjoy some things and not others?  I don’t know.  Why do I enjoy building things, playing strategy games, and washing dishes, but don’t particularly enjoy planning out a garden, craft-making, or cooking?  Why do I enjoy listening to others play guitar but struggle to find enjoyment in…

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Optimism and Hope

I recently finished the book Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age by Bruce Rogers-Vaughn.  It is aimed specifically at pastors and others in caring professions, but I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in exploring the ways that neoliberal capitalism negatively affects our social, interpersonal, and psychological health…

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Daily Connector | I Matter | Brent (and Issac) Miller

Being the big kids on campus, a select group of 4th graders at JC Sommer Elementary are entrusted to be “Fourth Grade Ambassadors.” It is a program in which this group has the opportunity – nay, responsibility – to serve the younger kids at school in various ways: By welcoming…

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