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Hidden Wholeness

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

There’s this nagging feeling that has risen up lately after many of my recent posts, and it goes something like this:

Why are you spending so much time focusing on individual healing?

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Promise, Reality and Crying Out

There is something about groaning and crying out that is at the very heart of covenantal life. Somehow, the Spirit is deeply active in such groaning...

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Beloved Mess

Before any of us discovered our own failings or contradictions, we were God's beloved. We are God's beloved to this day.

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Beloved

We are God's beloved, called to acknowledge that belovedness in ourselves, and to help reveal that belovedness in one another.

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Time to Run

So let’s run, friends.

Let’s keep our ears open for the cloud of witnesses.

And what’s even more important,

Let’s keep our eyes fixed on Jesus,

the Pioneer and Perfector of our faith,

he’s out in front and also bringing up the rear,

Christ before us, Christ behind us.

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Galatians: A Costly Welcome

Saint Paul demands to know: Is Christ's welcome for everyone, or not? Who is welcome to join the movement? And at what cost?"

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The “Pulse” of Habakkuk

Woe to you who heap up what is not your own.

Woe to you who heap up the bodies of LGBTQ folks,

sisters and brothers,

mothers and fathers,

lovers and friends.

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We Had Hoped :: An Easter Reflection

I want to have an answer for the hope that is within me. I want to live in greater hope. But I'm stuck with Cleopas and his companion on the road.

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Good Friday in Six Voices

Fear and paranoia spread like cancer

and that small act of burial may cost me my reputation, my membership,

who knows? maybe my life.

It doesn’t matter.

It had to be done.

I needed to plant that seed in the earth.

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Fully Immersed in Holy Week

Each year drags me kicking and screaming into Holy Week. It’s a week I wish I could forget, ignore, or otherwise skip.

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