1389) Important

By Fred Craddock (1928-2015), Craddock Stories, ed. by Mike Graves and Richard F. Ward, 2001, Chalice Press, pages 132. ------------------------------      The young woman, twenty-eight years old, at St. Mark's…

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1104) Good Old Summertime

     Temperatures in the upper 70's these last few days have Minnesotans thinking about summer, even though it is still mid-April.  The first warm days of Spring have people…

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1068) Handle With Care

"Fragile Worshipers" by Richard Beck, at: www.experimentaltheology.blogspot.com; posted March 7, 2016 ----------------------------      I used to be a fragile worshiper.      I'd go to church and there would…

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997) Nowhere Else to Turn

Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) was a British reporter in the U.S.S.R. in the 1930's.   Here he describes two episodes which provide contrasting insights into life after the Russian Revolution.  Muggeridge…

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942) Worship Where?

     “There are no atheists in the foxholes...  You’ll never be able to keep religion out of the schools-- as long as there are tests, there will be prayers…

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917) Worship Music

       The father of a man in my previous parish had immigrated to America from Russia in the early 1900’s.  After the Russian Revolution his father lost contact…

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