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Feb
22
2012

Lent: A Season to Lengthen and Stretch

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.  ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The same faux pas is likely to be committed today:  someone offering to be helpful will gently suggest that you have something on your forehead.  Restaurants will be offering Friday fish specials and fast …

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Feb
16
2012

Empower Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Dg6LmdfRE

Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting, in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise the authority of honesty, rather than to defer to power, or deceive to get it; to influence someone for justice, rather than impress anyone for gain; and, by grace, to find treasures of …

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Jan
23
2012

Sermon Revisited: Quietly Follow

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell US postage stamp

On this date (23 January), in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from a medical school in the United States.  Born in Bristol, England, in 1821, she and her family moved to New York and then to Ohio in 1832. The Blackwells were active Quakers and supported the anti-slavery movement and the …

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