An Artist’s View
First Hebrew Scripture Reading—Exodus 35: 30-35 Second Hebrew Scripture Reading—Exodus 37: 1-9 Michelangelo’s fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome is considered one of the greatest works
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Part I: The Last Children 1 Samuel 16: 6-11 “When they came, [Samuel] looked on Eliab and thought, ‘Surely the Lord's anointed is now before the Lord.’ But the Lord
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Hebrew Scripture Reading—Psalm 98: 4-9 The writer Wendell Berry once wrote, “I don’t think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is.” Berry believes that
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First New Testament Reading—1 John 3: 10-18 Second New Testament Reading—1 John 4: 7-13 In his book on how to raise children compassionately, the nonviolent communication
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New Testament Reading—Matthew 13: 10-16 Kelsey, is forty-four years old, single, and as of a little more than two weeks ago jobless. She had been working for a firm
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For its next outing, our Engaged Hearts and Minds group will be going to see the new movie MILK. This film tells the story of prominent gay activist and San
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New Testament Reading—1 Corinthians 11: 17-29 Toward the end of the first century, there lived in Rome a Spanish poet named Martial. In all, he wrote over 1,500 poems. In
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New Testament Reading—Galatians 3: 23-29 Earlier this year, I went through a month of fascination with the TV show Supernanny. Have any of you seen this show? For those of
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New Testament Reading—Matthew 7: 1-12 In his classic work The Souls of Black Folk, the famous black scholar W.E.B. DuBois wrote of a black predicament he called “double-consciousness.” He described
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New Testament Reading: Matthew 11: 16-19 A Voice of Liberation Reading: “A Gay Manifesto” (1969-1970) Carl Wittman “San Francisco is a refugee camp for homosexuals. We have fled
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