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The Poor Widow’s Offering

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:November 8, 2024
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Reflection for the Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time B / Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: I Kings 17: 10-16 (RM) or 8-16 (RCL); Psalm 146; Hebrews 9: 24-28; Mark 12:…

Luther and Ongoing Church Reform

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:November 1, 2024
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Reflection for the Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time B / Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Deuteronomy 6: 2-6 (RM) or 1-9 (RCL); Psalm 18 (RM) or 119 (RCL); Hebrews 7:…

The Healing of Bartimaeus

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:October 25, 2024
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Jeremiah 31: 7-9; Psalm 126; Hebrews 5: 1-6 (RM) or 7: 23-28 (RCL); Mark 10: 46-52. ELCA/ELCIC if celebrating Reformation Sunday: Jeremiah 31: 31-34; Psalm 46; Romans 3: 19-28; John…

Becoming a Digital Missionary

Post author:Noreen Mya Sie
Post published:October 21, 2024
Post category:Mission Work Technology
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“To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know. Thus, writing requires a real act of trust. We have to say to ourselves: “I…

Same Baptism. Same Spirit. Same Calling.

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:October 18, 2024
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Isaiah 53: 10-11 (RM) or 53: 4-12 (RCL); Psalm 33; Hebrews 4: 14-16 (RM) or 5: 1-10 (RCL); Mark 10: 35-45. “Same Baptism. Same Spirit. Same Calling.” The motto circles…

October Festival of Thoughts

Post author:Weeyaa Villanueva
Post published:October 14, 2024
Post category:Poetry Reflections
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I was thinking of what October brings to light and how our world seems to be in circling motions. In the northern part of the world Autumn begins while in…

Goodbye: Reflecting on the Death of a Friend

Post author:Bonnie Dickie
Post published:September 30, 2024
Post category:Death & Dying Reflections
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I have been friends with Karin for more than thirty years. She lives in the corner house at the end of my block with a lovely English garden and a…

Hell is a Garbage Dump

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:September 27, 2024
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Susan will be away for the next couple of weeks, so there will be no Friday reflections on October 4 and October 11. Her Friday reflections will resume on October…

The Vulnerability of Children

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:September 20, 2024
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Wisdom 2: 12, 17-20 RM / Jeremiah 11: 18-20 RCL; Psalm 54; James 3:16 - 4: 3; Mark 9: 30-37. Some time ago I visited a small rural cemetery where…

Will. You. Follow. Me?

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:September 13, 2024
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Isaiah 50: 4c-9a; Psalm 116; James 2: 14-18 (RM) or 3: 1-12 (RCL); Mark 8: 27-35 (RM) or 27-38 (RCL.) On a sunny Sunday afternoon in June, many long years…