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The Daily Pastoral

Short pastoral notes emailed to you daily during the week.

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Union precedes repentance. We are not only loved by God when we reach perfection (impossible, btw). Rather, God rushes to us in our imperfection and…

Dec 23, 2022

It’s easy to think about revelation as us (humanity) in search of God. But what the story in the garden of Eden shows us is that revelation is not us in…

Dec 22, 2022

The meaning of blessing is this: A proclamation that we are in relationship with God. (And it’s God who kicked things off.) We bless because we first…

Dec 18, 2022

Just remember… Your human nature is not an obstacle to your relationship with God. You were made truly, wonderfully, and incarnationally human. Amen. In…

Dec 16, 2022

God of good news of great joy for all people, give us a share in your delight. Remind us of your cosmic joy, deeper and wider than all sorrow, the…

Dec 15, 2022

Christmas Poem by EE Cummings

Dec 14, 2022

As he nears his death (by beheading, nonetheless), John the Baptizer asks the following from his prison cell… “Are you the one who is to come, or are we…

Dec 12, 2022

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