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Mapping Our Spiritual Landscapes

Belden Lane, who studies and writes about spiritual landscapes, says: “The sacred place becomes the point at which the wondrous power of the divine could be seen breaking into the world’s alleged ordinariness.”

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What Do We Mean By Religious Freedom?

Christians are totally free in that they are justified by God’s grace. But in response to that grace we are called to love and serve our neighbors as Christ did for us. For Luther, our freedoms are tempered, and they are tempered by service to our neighbor.

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Resurrection is Like...

“Sometimes resurrection is like making love. Sometimes it looks like good food with good friends telling stories on themselves. Sometimes it looks like a therapist’s office and a box of tissues and learning to tell the truth. Sometimes it looks like church and sometimes it looks like the wilderness.” - Sarah Bessey

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Who is God?

How would you answer that question? Who is God for you? A character? Love? Goodness? The Almighty? The Creator? A thing, a person or persons, a mystery?

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What Makes a Christian?

Religious identity can be a tricky thing. And its a timely question as people (maybe you!) don't identify with religious traditions and institutions in the same ways as they once did.

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Starbucks Cups and Keeping Christ in Christmas

Are these part of a “war on Christmas” as some have said, or a needed correction as we live in an increasingly pluralistic, religiously diverse world? Must we depend on corporations like Starbucks to prop up our Christmas observances, or is that the work of the church and individual Christians?

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Who are the Saints in Your Life?

"I have come to realize that all the saints I’ve known have been accidental ones—people who inadvertently stumbled into redemption like they were looking for something else at the time.” - Nadia Bolz-Weber


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Pope Francis' Visit to Philly

What is it about Francis that fascinates, inspires, or perhaps repels you? Does he cast the Catholic church, and the larger church in a new light? What is our responsibility to the poor? What has he said or done on his visit to the U.S. that speaks to you?

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Third Places and Sacred Spaces

What happens when a pub “becomes sacred in a more accessible everyday way, and the dualism between sacred and profane whether we are thinking in those terms or not sort of dissipates, and we see that unity and sacredness of all of life and if I can have a conversation with a stranger…we can have this human engagement and I can hear their story and I can see their authenticity in it and I can see God in it. And that’s a holy, sacred moment.”

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