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Listening to different groups of people I hear three words used to describe some of the…

Reading the Bible is much less about learning all the nuances of the leaves and branches and much more about an encounter with the Divine, writes the Rev. Jason Valendy.

Canadian Lutheran theologian Jann E. Boyd Fullenwieder wrote in Proclamation: Mercy for the World:Like Zacchaeus of old, we climb up into the scriptures, a great tree of life grafted to the Crucified One’s cross, that we might see Jesus. There we disco…

There is a section of the Good Friday liturgy in the Orthodox Christian tradition called “15th Antiphon from Great and Holy Friday Matins.” The section juxtaposes the higher and lower parts of the life of Christ. It also is sung/chanted in a way that w…

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Often racism is thought about in terms of what it hates. Speaking to, acting toward and building str…

Knowledge of God – who ultimately is unknowable in human terms – often depends more on the “spaces” than on “notes” of the divine mystery, writes the Rev. Jason Valendy.

There is a saying in the Jewish tradition that scripture is “black fire written on white fire.” Weight is given to the words but just as weighty are the spaces between. It is also the case that musicians talk about music not only in terms of the notes,…

Being in service to God requires receiving the service of others and reconciling with neighbor, writes the Rev. Jason Valendy.