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For Wilshire Baptist Church

Sunday morning, we visited The Episcopal Church of Saint Thomas the Apostle for a discussion about sharing faith through fiction, and then we stayed for worship. It was a rich and warm experience, and I especially liked the moment when the rector carried the Gospel Book from the altar down the aisle into the center of the church. Everyone was standing and turned to face her, which meant that as she read the day’s Gospel, we not only were seeing her but were looking beyond her into the faces of one another.

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For Wishire Baptist Church

I’ve been stuck on what to write or say recently. There is so much anger in every corner, ugliness on every side. So much noise in our streets and in our social networks. Everyone has something to say about everything and yet everyone is offended by what each other is saying. Everyone is an expert. Everyone has a voice. Everyone is talking and nobody is listening.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

On a recent visit with my parents, my mother said, “Look what I found,” and she handed me report cards from two semesters of college. By report cards, I’m talking about the sealed documents containing course grades that were mailed at the end of every semester to our parents because they were paying the bills.

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