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Compassion in a Pandemic

May 17, 2020 By Christian Simmers 4 Comments

For the past eight weeks, my home base has been designated the Special Pathogens Unit of the hospital, which delivers vital care for hospitalized patients infected with COVID-19.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: children, compassion, coronavirus, Family, young children

You are forgiven.

May 12, 2020 By Carrie Willard 3 Comments

As a Generation X woman, working mother, clergy spouse, and people pleaser, I’ve often felt the “damned if we do, damned if we don’t” pull inside myself.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: compassion, coronavirus, forgiveness, Jesus, parenting

Enmegahbowh: charting the course toward understanding, compassion, and just relationships

June 12, 2018 By Marcus Halley 2 Comments

Born a member of the Ojibwe people in Canada, Enmegahbowh’s name means “he who prays for his people while standing.” While his name most certainly […]

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Filed Under: Saints, Uncategorized Tagged With: compassion, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, saints

My cancer showed me the power of kindness.

December 22, 2016 By Raymond Capo 2 Comments

When I volunteered to donate a kidney, I wasn’t expecting a cancer diagnosis. I also wasn’t expecting such an outpouring of compassion.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: baptism, cancer, compassion, healing, health, kindness, T.S. Eliot

St. Francis Has A Lesson for the Election Season

October 4, 2016 By Nurya Love Parish Leave a Comment

I’ve never been the kind of person on whom a bird would perch. But there’s much more to St. Francis than that.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: compassion, conversion, election, Family, leprosy, relationship, saints, St. Francis

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