secretary Your People View in browser October 12, 2023 Your People John Edgerton The Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely… they have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it!” But … Read more
Flip the Script View in browser October 11, 2023 Flip the Script Chris Mereschuk My soul clings to the dust; revive me according to your word. Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope. This is my comfort in my distress, that your promise gives me life. – Psalm 119:25, … Read more
Kitten Heel Ministry View in browser October 10, 2023 Kitten Heel Ministry Kaji Douša O give thanks to the Lord, for the Lord is good; God’s steadfast love endures forever! – Psalm 118:1 (NRSV, adapted) I would love to tell you about a ministry that changed how I think about my faith: Darell Hunt (@noontnoont)’s … Read more
Daily Devotional for Small Group Discussion: Cancel Culture View in browser October 9, 2023 Cancel Culture Liz Miller For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven. – Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NRSV) I am singlehandedly trying to resurrect cancel culture. No, not celebrity cancel culture. I’m not that powerful. I’m talking … Read more
Hearing Voices View in browser October 8, 2023 Hearing Voices Vicki Kemper Then God spoke all these words: – Exodus 20:1 (NRSV) Can you imagine? Hearing the divine voice speak the Ten Commandments and then chapter after chapter of ordinances, laws, proclamations, and edicts designed to help the children of God live in harmony, happiness, … Read more
The Afterlife is a Justice Issue View in browser October 7, 2023 The Afterlife is a Justice Issue Matt Laney “‘Just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” … Read more
Go Home View in browser October 6, 2023 Go Home Molly Baskette Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. – Romans 13:8 (NIV) I just finished mandatory racial justice training for my standing as a UCC minister. I’m glad this is … Read more
Turning View in browser October 5, 2023 Turning Mary Luti Whatever gains I had I have come to regard as loss for Christ’s sake. For him I have suffered the loss of all things, and regard them as rubbish, in order that I may be found in him. – Philippians 3: 7-11 (NRSVUE, adapted) In … Read more
Making Great Bread View in browser October 4, 2023 Making Great Bread Donna Schaper Therefore if anyone be in Christ, that person is a new creature. – 2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV) One of the people I respect the most in the world died a few years ago. He is Bernie Glassman, founder of The Greyston, … Read more
You Cannot Do it Alone View in browser October 3, 2023 You Cannot Do it Alone Martha Spong Moses’s father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. You will surely wear yourself out, both you and these people with you, for the task it too heavy for you; you cannot do it … Read more