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A compelling devotional by Day1 host Peter Wallace, designed to help people of all ages connect meaningfully with God as revealed in the Psalms.
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God Is Present and Active
Mark 1:29-39
5th Sunday after Epiphany - Year B
February 05, 2012
The Rev. Dr. Judith M. McDaniel (TEC)"Let us go...that I may proclaim the message...for that is what I came out to do," Jesus says to his followers. His is a loving summons; but at the same time, this call to join him on a journey is also a demand. For the message he is proclaiming is that the kingdom of God has come near with both cost and promise: The cost is repentance, and the promise is His presence with us then and now. God has come into our midst and remains both present and active.
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A Visitor, a Mapmaker and a Banquet
Psalm 23
4th Sunday of Easter - Year B
May 03, 2009
The Rev. Benjamin Anthony (TEC)For good or for ill--and mostly for ill--religion and theology have become forms of technology. Religion can be construed as a technology in the sense that there are experts who dispense a form of knowledge offered for the consumption of an untrained public audience. This, I think, gets the practice of religion and theology badly, badly wrong. Perhaps in this phenomenon we might find a partial explanation for a growing generation of people who identify as spiritual and not religious. Religion and theology are for the experts; however, spirituality is immediate, personal: universal truths experienced and apprehended without the cost--or value--of particularity or enduring substance.
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