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Preaching the Word, Teaching Inclusion

March 23, 2023 By Bird Treacy Leave a Comment

Last week, as priests and pastors and children’s ministers and people of all stripes working in churches attempted to make sense of the miraculous healing at the heart of the lectionary, some extremely important questions came up.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bible, disability, healing, lectionary, Wiggles & Wonder

Context of a Cure

February 3, 2021 By Anne Warner Leave a Comment

Imagine for a minute that the three main characters of the story—the servant, the centurion, and Jesus—are standing in front of you.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: healing, Jesus, Luke, trinity

The Verdant Greening of Joy

September 17, 2020 By Erin Jean Warde 1 Comment

Today we celebrate the commemoration of Saint Hildegard of Bingen, a woman offering so many gifts to the church that they are hard to list.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: gardening, healing, Hildegard of Bingen, joy, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, pain

Saint Luke and Laying On Hands

October 18, 2018 By Allison Sandlin Liles 2 Comments

Several years ago the church I currently serve decided to end their Wednesday healing service, opting instead to add healing prayers to the Sunday morning […]

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Filed Under: Prayer, Saints Tagged With: Children in church, healing, Prayer, St. Luke

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

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