The election is over. A new president has been chosen. History was made with the election of the oldest man as president and, more important,…
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Planting a Seed
A few years ago, Lucille Salitan of the Center for Farm and Food Research purchased a tomato from the nearest grocery store, did the research,…
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Just Jack 8-4-20
Luke 17:33 “Those who keep their lives will lose them; those who would lose their lives, preserve them.” The paradox of faith is that we…
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Marriage with a Mission
Marriage with a Mission (excerpted from A New Way to Be Church by Jack Jezreel and revised) As I have imagined and engaged the possibilities…
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Spirituality and the 4th of July: An Unlikely Duet in Five Parts
Part One The most plainspoken way of defining spirituality is simply: what we pay attention to. Spirituality is what we pay attention to, with our…
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The Future of Fathering
In the 1982 film, Gandhi, a Hindu man approaches Gandhi as he is fasting for an end to the violence between Muslims and Hindus. The…
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Tending to our Planet: Surviving and Thriving
Earth Day is April 22nd this year. While the world’s human population continues to navigate a deadly pandemic, the rest of the earth doesn’t care…
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Easter Reflections on Death
One of the strengths of our faith tradition, reflected in our Gospel literature, is that it does not flinch at the mention of death, the…
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Engaging Spirituality
Matthew 25:31–46 (“I was hungry and you gave me food”), a Gospel text that speaks to a kind of final judgment, suggests that a critical…
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Thanksgiving Recipe
As I write this, I’m fasting today. Every once in a while, I take a day and eat nothing all day. I do this for…