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  • Justice Prayers - August 30, 2023

    "He took the five pieces of frybread with the two fishes and held them up to the sky. He looked up, spoke words of blessing over them, broke them into smaller pieces, and gave them to his message...
    August 30, 2023
  • Ugandan Neighbors

    During our annual staff retreat in June 2023, we reckoned with the fact that we are each other’s neighbours. Jesus causes us to recognise the needs of others and the call to be a neighbour...
    August 28, 2023
  • Diaconal Reconciliation and Peacemaking

    In this series on Deacons and Justice, we have looked at how structural injustice creates obstacles to creating communities of justice, and how deacons (and all Christians) work to affirm the dignity...
    August 25, 2023
  • Justice Prayers - August 23, 2023

    “You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies.” Corrie ten Boom Hilary drenches Southern California with record-breaking rainfall as storm wreaks havoc The...
    August 23, 2023
  • Eternal Word and Changing Worlds

    Since 2002, I have been intimately involved with Spirit and Truth Fellowship, a CRCNA church in the North Philadelphia neighborhood of Hunting Park. Our late Pastor, Dr Manuel Ortiz, was a professor...
    August 18, 2023
  • Justice Prayers - August 16, 2023

    “God’s love is like an ocean. You can see its beginning, but not its end.” Rick Warren Thank you to everyone who contacted us last week about Do Justice prayers. We experienced technical difficulty...
    August 16, 2023
  • The Siege of Nagorno Karabakh

    “People are going to start dying soon.” Vardan Tadevosyan’s face on my computer screen is filled with worry, as he speaks to me from his office in Nagorno Karabakh. For the past eight months, he and...
    August 11, 2023
  • Justice Prayers - August 9, 2023

    “Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths.” - Robert Murray McCheyne Thank you to everyone who contacted us this week...
    August 9, 2023
  • Being Right or Being Righteous

    A question for you: Do you value having the right opinion over doing right by your neighbours? Or, to use the language of the ancient Hebrew prophets, do you value being right over being righteous –...
    August 7, 2023