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Looking for Hope & Wonder

“We three kings of Orient are…” begins the famous carol. And perhaps like most things famous, it’s fairly polarizing. There’s the fact that the biblical story does not say there were “three,” and they certainly were not “kings.” It is also an Epiphany carol that gets nestled within Christmas carols. Across the years, “We Three…

Ringing Out Grief, Ringing In Hope

Nearly 200 years ago, a man named Arthur Henry Hallam died at the age of 22 of a cerebral hemorrhage. His death profoundly affected his college friend, a man we know as Alfred Lord Tennyson. His grief was deep, and Arthur’s death literally shook the foundations of his world. He journeyed into and through his…

Lies, Distortions, Manipulation – How to Sell a Bible

On Sunday, we reflected on truth and lies, considering in particular how truth endures no matter our attempts at twisting, distorting, or spinning it into something else… or our attempts to deny it completely. Jesus, as we saw and read clearly from Luke 8:17, insists that all those hidden machinations that are required to support…