Each First Day, the pastoral vocal ministry is offered by Friends whom the Meeting has asked to serve in this capacity. Archived pastoral reflections are collected here.
Date |
Title |
Speaker
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2024/01/14 |
Tearing Down or Building Up |
A.T. Miller |
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2023/12/17 |
The Risk of Birth and the Hope of Christmas |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2023/12/10 |
Preparing for Guests |
A.T. Miller |
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2023/11/19 |
When Faith is What Remains |
A.T. Miller |
2023/11/05 |
Pearley Bee |
J. Anthony Gaenslen |
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2023/10/15 |
Holding On, Letting Go |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2023/10/08 |
Arise and Walk |
A.T. Miller |
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2023/09/17 |
Walking Together in Faith |
A.T. Miller |
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2023/08/20 |
Story Message |
Julie Lockhart |
2023/08/13 |
Figuring It Out |
A.T. Miller |
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2023/07/16 |
Peace, Love, and Understanding |
A.T. Miller |
2023/07/02 |
Declaring Independence |
A.T. Miller |
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2023/05/14 |
Our Mother Earth |
A.T. Miller |
2023/05/07 |
Judges, Judging, and Walking Humbly with God |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2023/04/30 |
No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference |
Charles Weld |
2023/04/09 |
Always Here |
A.T. Miller |
2023/04/02 |
A Cosmic Hug |
David Eckhardt |
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2023/03/19 |
The Changing of the Seasons |
A.T. Miller |
2023/03/12 |
Let Your Bending Be For Gladness |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2023/03/05 |
Advices |
Charles Weld |
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2023/02/12 |
Darwin’s Sacred Earth |
A.T. Miller |
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2023/01/15 |
Sharing my Journey |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2023/01/08 |
The Wider World |
A.T. Miller |
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2022/12/11 |
Comfort, Peace, and Joy |
A.T. Miller |
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2022/11/13 |
Being Found |
A.T. Miller |
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2022/10/16 |
What Do You Fear |
A.T. Miller |
2022/10/09 |
Boundaries |
Jim Burkett |
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2022/09/04 |
As We Labor |
A.T. Miller |
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2022/08/14 |
Relationships of the Spirit |
A.T. Miller |
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2022/07/17 |
Walking in Sacred Garden |
A.T. Miller |
2022/07/10 |
Youth Truth |
Scott Lockhart |
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2022/06/26 |
The Little Prince |
Anthony Gaenslen |
2022/06/05 |
What You Have to Add |
A.T. Miller |
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2022/05/15 |
Prophet Muhammad and George Fox |
David Connelly |
2022/05/08 |
The Motherless Child |
A.T. Miller |
2022/05/01 |
Careful For The Truth |
Charles Weld |
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2022/04/10 |
Deep Impressions |
A.T. Miller |
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2022/03/13 |
Listening in Tongues |
A.T. Miller |
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2022/02/13 |
Evolution Weekend |
Howard Nelson |
2022/02/06 |
Weathering the Storm |
A.T. Miller |
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2022/01/09 |
The Path of Love |
A.T. Miller |
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2021/12/12 |
Immanence and Imminence, Advent Stories and Learning How to See
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Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2021/12/05 |
Planted Within You |
A.T. Miller |
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2021/11/14 |
Blessings |
A.T. Miller |
2021/11/07 |
Jesus, The Cross, and The Sum of Us
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Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2021/10/10 |
Inclusion for Transformation |
A.T. Miller |
2021/10/03 |
Resilience and Hope: Drawing Strength from Our Quaker Faith |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2021/09/12 |
To Balance Ourselves Upon a Broken World, for a Moment |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2021/09/05 |
Letting Christ Be |
A.T. Miller |
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2021/08/22 |
Speaking Lives |
A.T. Miller |
2021/08/01 |
How Change Happens |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2021/07/11 |
To Write Upon the Ground and Try What Love Can Do |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2021/07/04 |
Grace and Space |
A.T. Miller |
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2021/06/20 |
Lingering Light |
A.T. Miller |
2021/06/16 |
Prayer |
David Eckhardt |
2021/06/06 |
The Selfhood of Seeds, the Personhood of Plants, and Listening to our Kin |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2021/05/16 |
Losses and Gains |
A.T. Miller |
2021/05/09 |
Mother’s Day |
Claire Howard |
2021/05/02 |
Metaphors Be With You: The Force, God’s Hands, The Bread and The Knife |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2021/04/11 |
Saint Francis |
A.T. Miller |
2021/04/04 |
Easter Sunday - History, The Whole Truth, and The Endless Song |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2021/03/21 |
Perseverance |
Julie Lockhart |
2021/03/14 |
Disruption |
A.T. Miller |
2021/03/07 |
March Moons, Myths, and the Sweetness of the Spring |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2021/02/21 |
Meditation |
Jim Burkett |
2021/02/14 |
Ready to Be Loved |
A.T. Miller |
2021/02/07 |
Blessed Are They Who Mourn |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2021/01/10 |
Say Yes to Truth |
A.T. Miller |
2021/01/03 |
Bells That We Would Ring: The Long Loneliness and How the Light Gets In |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2020/12/20 |
Jesus, Prophet of Love |
A.T. Miller |
2020/12/13 |
Healed in Stormy Seas |
A.T. Miller |
2020/12/06 |
Hoping Against Hope |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2020/11/08 |
Refuge and Reconstruction |
A.T. Miller |
2020/11/01 |
The Human Heart is the First Home of Democracy |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2020/10/11 |
Love Will Guide Us |
A.T. Miller |
2020/10/04 |
Listening in Tongues |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2020/09/20 |
Holding Hands on Death Row |
Tony Gaenslen |
2020/09/13 |
Stubborn Gladness, Good and Evil, and Balance in a Broken World |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2020/09/06 |
Calm and Strong |
A.T. Miller |
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2020/08/30 |
Identity and Core Values |
Jonathan Caldera |
2020/08/09 |
Falling Back, Falling Forward |
A.T. Miller |
2020/08/02 |
A Tower of Babel |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2020/07/26 |
Deep Calls to Deep |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2020/07/12 |
Who We Can Become |
A.T. Miller |
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2020/06/21 |
Father Time |
A.T. Miller |
2020/06/07 |
Revolutionary Love |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2020/05/31 |
A Hidden Wholeness |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2020/05/10 |
Eternal Mother |
A.T. Miller |
2020/05/03 |
Now Is The Cool of The Day |
Christopher Sammond |
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2020/04/19 |
Work and Play, Weeping and Laughter |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2020/04/12
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Always Rising |
A.T. Miller |
2020/04/05 |
Palm Sunday - Coronavirus |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2020/03/08
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The Virtues of Dependency |
A.T. Miller |
2020/03/02 |
Remember and Belong |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2020/02/09
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Filled Silence |
A.T. Miller |
2020/02/02 |
Fear and Faith, Hope and Love |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2020/01/12
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Manifestations of Peace |
A.T. Miller |
2020/01/05 |
Epiphany
- Star of Wonder |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2019/12/22 |
Incarnation, Idolatry, Power and Powerlessness |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2019/12/08
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Comfort When the News is Bad |
A.T. Miller |
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2019/11/17
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God Within and All Around |
A.T. Miller |
2019/11/10 |
Reasoning with the Heart |
Anthony Gaenslen |
2019/11/03 |
Won’t You Be My Neighbor |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2019/10/13
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Shelter in the Storm |
A.T. Miller |
2019/10/06 |
Sustainability: Planting Seeds of Renewal for the World We Love |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
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2019/09/22 |
September Shadow Tag |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2019/09/08
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At the Crossroads of Joy |
A.T. Miller |
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2019/08/04 |
Touching the Earth |
A.T. Miller |
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2019/07/14 |
Us and Them, Invasions and Self-Evident Truths |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2019/07/07 |
Foundations and Fountains |
A.T. Miller |
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2019/06/09 |
The Holy Seed |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2019/06/16
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Broken and Blessed |
Christopher Sammond |
2019/06/02 |
The Blessings of Idd |
A.T. Miller |
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2019/05/12 |
Violence, Vulnerability, and a Mother’s Love |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2019/05/05 |
Heart is Where the Home Is |
A.T. Miller |
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2019/04/21 |
The Many Christs |
A.T. Miller |
2019/04/14 |
Unanimous Blood and the Poetry of Everyone |
Rebecca Sue Shillenback |
2019/04/07 |
First Things First |
A.T. Miller |
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2019/03/10 |
Here and There, Now and Then |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2019/03/10 |
Human Conflict, Divine Love |
A.T. Miller |
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2019/02/13 |
The Blessed Healing Earth |
A.T. Miller |
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2019/01/27 |
Wrestling, Resilience, and Rising to the Occasion |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2019/01/13 |
The Spokes of the Wheel |
A.T. Miller |
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2018/12/23 |
The People Who Walk In Darkness Have Seen a Great Light |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2018/12/09 |
More Light, More Love |
A.T. Miller |
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2018/11/18 |
Enough: Radical Gratitude and the Economy of Grace |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2018/11/11 |
Expecting the Best |
A.T. Miller |
2018/11/04 |
Love your neighbor as yourself |
Jane Simkin |
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2018/10/21 |
Taking Care of Anger |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2018/10/14 |
Do The Hardest First |
A.T. Miller |
2018/10/07 |
Mediation |
Jim Burkett |
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2018/09/23 |
Praying Without Ceasing |
A.T. Miller |
2018/09/16 |
A Holy Meeting Place |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2018/09/09 |
The Gift of Love |
Anne Dalton |
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2018/08/05 |
Late Summer of Life |
A.T. Miller |
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2018/07/01 |
Faithful to Truth, Open to Leadings |
A.T. Miller |
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2018/06/03 |
Keeping Close to Love and Light |
A.T. Miller |
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2018/05/06 |
Navigating New Paths/Transitions |
A.T. Miller |
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2018/04/08 |
On Seeing That of God in Each Other |
Christopher Sammond |
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2018/03/11 |
The Devine Image |
A.T. MIller |
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2018/02/11 |
Evolution Sunday |
A.T. Miller |
2018/02/04 |
Walking Upon the Earth |
Claire Howard |
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2018/01/14 |
No Man Is an Island |
Dill Otis |
2018/01/07 |
As Way Opens |
A.T. Miller |
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2017/12/03 |
Out of the Darkness |
A.T. Miller |
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2017/11/12 |
Preserving That of God |
A.T. Miller |
2017/11/05 |
Love, and the call to Love |
Christopher Sammond |
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2017/09/10 |
Forgiveness and Forgiving |
A.T. Miller |
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2017/08/13 |
God Saw That It Was Good |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2017/08/06 |
Risking Peace |
A.T. Miller |
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2017/07/09 |
Fire, Freedom, and the Possibility of America |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2017/07/02 |
Transformation and Hope |
A.T. Miller |
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2017/06/11 |
The Law, the Prophets, Seasons and Stones |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2017/06/04 |
The Simplicity of Testimony |
A.T. Miller |
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2017/05/21 |
Simplicity in Life and Society |
Andy Simkin |
2017/05/14 |
Mother�s Day - As a Hen Gathers Her Brood |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2017/05/07 |
Infinity of Spirit |
A.T. Miller |
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2017/04/13 |
Easter Sunday - Then a Miracle Occurs: To Woo Loss Into Song |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2017/04/09 |
My Purgatory |
Julie Lockhart |
2017/04/02 |
Seeking and Being Found |
A.T. Miller |
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2017/03/19 |
The Golden Rule and the Balance Between Light and Dark |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2017/03/12 |
Serenity Sermon |
Craig Kukuk |
2017/03/05 |
The Long Haul |
A.T. Miller |
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2017/02/12 |
It is Good |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2017/02/05 |
Love and Truth |
A.T. Miller |
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2017/01/15 |
Yes, We Can and Ode to Joy |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2017/01/08 |
Otis Redding |
Howard Nelson |
2017/01/01 |
Everything Old is New Again |
A.T. Miller |
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2016/12/18 |
Christmas |
Jim Burkett |
2016/12/11 |
Oh Holy Night, Oh Night Divine |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2016/12/04 |
Grounding and Rising |
A.T. Miller |
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2016/11/06 |
The Far Horizon |
A.T. Miller |
2016/11/04 |
Strangers, Stones, Water, Fire |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
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2016/10/23 |
This Little Clod of Earth That I Am |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2016/10/09 |
Across a Great Divide |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2016/10/02 |
Starting Points |
A.T. Miller |
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2016/09/11 |
The Writing on Our Hearts |
A.T. Miller |
2016/09/04 |
The Fullness of Time |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
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2016/08/14 |
Jesus and The God of Possibility |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2016/08/07 |
The Rock on Which We Stand |
A.T. Miller |
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2016/07/24 |
Chaos and Comfort |
A.T. Miller |
2016/07/03 |
The Weak, The Least, The Dependent |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
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2016/06/12 |
Doubt and Belief, Wounds and Wonder |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2016/06/03 |
Dispelling Despair as Friends |
A.T. Miller |
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2016/05/08 |
All Creation Groans |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2016/05/01 |
All Possibilities, All Time, All Love |
A.T. Miller |
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2016/04/10 |
Praise What Comes: The Inescapable God |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2016/04/04 |
Part of the Process of God |
A.T. Miller |
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2016/03/27 |
Easter Sunday - Practice Resurrection |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2016/03/13 |
Lent and Positive Disintegration: Dying and Being Born Again |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2016/03/06 |
Experiencing the Divine |
A.T. Miller |
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2016/02/14 |
Darwin Sunday |
David A.V. Eckhardt |
2016/02/07 |
Penitence and Potential |
A.T. Miller |
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2016/01/17 |
Now. Look Here. |
Melinda Grube |
2016/01/11 |
God of Rest |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2016/01/03 |
Epiphany and Transformation |
A.T. Miller |
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2015/12/13 |
Being and Becoming Human, Awaiting Emmanuel |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2015/12/06 |
Saving Darkness, Saving Light |
A.T. Miller |
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2015/11/08 |
Falling Leaves, Mighty Deeds, and Boats to Carry Us |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2015/11/01 |
The Continuing Reformation |
A.T. Miller |
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2015/10/18 |
On the value of foolishness |
Freddy Simkin |
2015/10/11 |
Telling The Truth |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2015/10/03 |
Not Sinners, Not Saints |
A.T. Miller |
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2015/09/13 |
Holding in the Light |
A.T. Miller |
2015/09/06 |
This is the Day that the Lord Has Made |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
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2015/08/09 |
Call and Response |
A.T. Miller |
2015/08/02 |
Stillness and Action |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
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2015/07/12 |
One Common Interest |
A.T. Miller |
2015/07/05 |
Independence |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
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2015/06/14 |
The Continuous Joy of Revelation |
A.T. Miller |
2015/06/07 |
Accepting the Cup |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
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2015/05/10 |
Bringing Justice and Peace to Birth |
A.T. Miller |
2015/05/03 |
Behold this Compost |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2015/04/19 |
Sermon The Heart of Courage |
Melinda Grube |
2015/04/12 |
What Is Unbreakable Rises in Us |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2015/04/05 |
Still Rising |
A.T. Miller |
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2015/03/29 |
'The Colt and the King', a children's message for Palm Sunday |
Scott Lochart |
2015/03/15 |
Evolution Sunday |
Howard Nelson |
2015/03/08 |
Journey of Lent |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2015/03/01 |
Where God is Alive ("Forebearers" by Birago Diop) |
A.T. Miller |
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2015/02//08 |
The Great Love Story |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2015/02/01 |
Pieces and the Whole |
A.T. Miller |
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2015/01/18 |
A Village in France |
Anne Dalton |
2015/01/11 |
Holy Breathing |
Rebecca Sue Schillenback |
2015/01/04 |
Epiphany and Resolution |
A.T. Miller |