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An Altar for an Unknown God
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Most years during Lent, I choose a method or book to focus my prayer life in order to more deeply enter into this most holy of seasons of the Christian year. This year, I’ve been reading Christine Valters Paintner’s book, A Different Kind of Fast: Feeding our True Hungers…
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Reconciliation is the Center of our Work, But …
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Palmer Becker has written a great book called Anabaptist Essentials: Ten Signs of a Unique Faith (2017, MennoMedia). In the book, he outlines three organizing principles of an Anabaptist perspective — Jesus is the center of our faith, community is the center of our life, and reconciliation is the…
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Three Essential Things
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I have the good fortune of being in a women’s contemplative book study with friends from various churches in the area. This group combines contemplative prayer and lectio divina with exerpts from a book of our choice. We just finished studying The Soul’s Slow Ripening by Christine Valters Paintner…
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A Woman of Valor
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I have alternately loved and hated Proverbs 31:10-31. Depending on your translation, it is listed as “an ode to a capable wife” (NRSV), ” the “virtuous wife” (NKJV), the “wife of noble character” (NIV), or “description of a worthy woman” (NASB). All of these titles remind me that the…
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Las Tejadoras de Mampujan
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Tejadoras de Mampujan: Colores de Paz: This is the original group of women led by Juana Ruiz (standing on the left), from Maria la Baja, Colombia. These women create story quilts that share about their heritage as Afro-Colombians, the violent displacement they experienced during the multiple decades-long civil war,…