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Advent Day 2 :: 12.01.2014

Advent is about remembering the past coming of the Christ Child and eagerly anticipating the…

The First Sunday in Advent :: November 30, 2014

  Isaiah 64:1-9 Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 Mark 13:24-37   Today is the…

Blogging Towards Sunday, November 30, 2014

Isaiah 64:1-9 & 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 The First Sunday of Advent HOPE   Today is…

Blogging Towards Sunday, November 23, 2014

Mark 6:32-44   Thanksgiving. It’s a week from my writing of this text today. It’s…

Blogging Towards Sunday, November 16, 2014

  Psalm 19 & John 10:1-6   “Talk is cheap” says the common idiom. And…

Racial-Ethnic Churches: you’re welcome as long as….

Welcoming is an adjective that nearly every church uses to describe itself.  But the truth…

Blogging Towards Sunday, November 9, 2014

  2 Corinthians 5:11-6:2     Rhetoric is the art of persuasion.  It’s increasingly a…

Mayoring the Fiefdoms of Oakland(s)

Today is election day.  Across the country low turnout is expected.  Myriad voices proclaim that…