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Category Archives: Christianity
Oneing
We believe in a God who breaks open jails. God did it before. God will do it again. We believe in a God who sets people free. We believe in a God who won’t let walls that stand between us stay standing, not forever.
How do we Belong?
One of the most difficult questions I face as a priest seems like it should be one of the simplest. How do I join the church? I can give a technical answer. But the question of membership is a trickier than paperwork. Taking a page from Buddhism: true belonging is a process of vulnerability and taking refuge.
Transfiguration
Today we have two strange stories about glowing faces. Moses and Jesus both shine so brightly they are said to be transfigured. Jesus and Moses don’t change into different leaders with different faces and different values. Rather these are stories about human beings who suddenly are **more** visibly, more recognizably who they are.
Mike Angell 