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ON FAITH: On sparrows and facing up to our fears
There is a good bit of fear-inducing uncertainty in our lives these days, isn’t there? The stock market ...
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ON FAITH: Divine kindness undergrids everything
Kindness seems like an old-fashioned word. And it does have history. It apparently derives from or is related ...
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ON FAITH: Searching for deeper, truer meaning in the world
The world often seems a sadly violent and harsh place. Week after week reports of atrocities or injustices ...
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ON FAITH: Embrace the opportunity to wipe the slate clean
In the Christian church a very significant season of the year has just begun – the season of ...
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ON FAITH: Learning to navigate between life’s ups and downs
As beautiful as life is, it isn’t necessarily easy. A friend of ours recently returned from a fabulous ...
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ON FAITH: Clear answer to age-old query – ‘Is Anybody There?’
Have you ever found yourself wondering, in difficult times perhaps, why God doesn’t intervene, why God doesn’t seem ...
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ON FAITH: Making the most of the precious gift of life
What makes life good, or meaningful, or worthwhile? We frequently hear people try to answer that question when ...
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ON FAITH: Treat people right, and you can hope they treat you right
Some time ago Michael Garofalo produced a fascinating piece for NPR’s “Morning Addition” called “A Victim Treats His ...
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ON FAITH: Try ‘as if’ thinking instead of ‘what if’ thinking
A few years back a friend shared with us a few tips from a book about handling harrowing ...
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ON FAITH: The most enduring New Year’s custom
Well, here we are at year’s end yet again. The more years we’ve watched go by (and we’ve ...
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ON FAITH: Let Him in: God’s love seeks us in the darkness
It’s been many years since Rev. Garth Thompson told a moving story about tenacious love, but it has ...
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ON FAITH: Felling giants possible with faith and self-confidence
One of our all-time favorite stories from scripture is the tale of David and Goliath from the book ...