Lectionary Commentaries » Lectionary Commentaries: Year B

From Dust, To Dust  – Kris Litman-Koon explores how Ash Wednesday is an invitation to reassess what we value with ...
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Earth's Child – Tom Mundahl reflects on the arrival of the Prince of Peace. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...
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In Celebration of St. Francis - Nancy Wright reflects on four themes of creation care in this Sunday's readings. Care for ...
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In Pentecost, the whole creation is in process of being reconciled and incorporated into Christ. - Dennis Ormseth Care for ...
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Returning to Our Origins  - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the start of our Lenten journey. Care for Creation Commentary on ...
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An Environmentalist-Turned-Pastor Reflects on Ash Wednesday - Lois Sorensen. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common Lectionary  Readings for Ash ...
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Ending Our Exile from Creation - Tom Mundahl reflects on owning the responsibilities of our priesthood. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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Giving, Receiving, and Giving Again - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the fullness of God. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...
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A Time for Gathering – Tom Mundahl reflects on freeing all creatures to dwell in peace and mutual respect. Care for ...
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Coming Home - Tom Mundahl reflects on a return from exile. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  Readings ...
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God's Plan -  Nick Utphall reflects on the order(s) of the universe and a baby. Care for Creation Commentary on ...
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And on Earth – Peace: A Christmas Eve Eco-Reflection by Leah D. Schade Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...
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Displaced and Found by God -  Nick Utphall reflects on the place of baby Jesus in a pandemic. Care for ...
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An Ecological Concern Far More Powerful Than Stewardship - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the priesthood of all believers meaning that we ...
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Responding to the Reign of Christ - Drew Tucker reflects on our language around God’s influence in our lives and ...
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The Transformation of All Life - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Jesus' life and death. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  ...
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A Realistic, Optimistic Hope - Drew Tucker reflects on end times, resilience, and our place in the birth pangs of ...
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Diversity and Unity, Uniqueness and Sameness - Jeremiah Sassaman reflects on loving all and being "with" all humanity and creation ...
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Restored to the Eternal Motion of God's Love - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Jesus calling us from self-promotion and self-interest ...
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The Beginning of Abundance Is at the End of Scarcity - Drew Tucker reflects on how this week’s readings relate ...
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Creation Is Our Neighborhood - Jeremiah Sassaman reflects on loving our neighbors. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  ...
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Practice Resurrection - Tom Mundahl reflects on the story told by how we live. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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Called to the Dance - Tom Mundahl reflects on making room. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary Readings ...
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The Story of Bartimaeus - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the social, economic, political, and cosmological features of the Gospel. Care for ...
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Do You See What I See? - Amy Carr reflects on walking without stumbling along waterways, roadsides, and temple byways ...
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The Season of Creation is an optional season of the church year that celebrates God the creator and various domains ...
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Fire and Wind - Leah Schade reflects on letting the Pentecostal fires and the winds of the Spirit transform your congregation into ...
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Act, and Do Not Lose Hope! - Leah Schade reflects on living in a house divided against itself. Care for ...
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Here Am I! - Leah Schade reflects on answering the call to love and serve creation. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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Mighty Cedars and Impertinent Mustard Plants: Signs of the Kin-dom of God - Leah Schade reflects on every green shoot ...
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Life Outside the Garden of Goodness - Dennis Ormseth reflects on overcoming the hostilities that divide us. Care for Creation ...
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Now is the acceptable time—to speak out boldly! - Leah Schade reflects on prophetic voice in the midst of the storm. Care ...
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A Costly Calling - Tom Mundahl reflects on the courage and action required to be prophetic for creation. Care for Creation ...
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The true vine is the sign of right relationship—Creator, people, and land interrelated. - Dennis Ormseth Care for Creation Commentary ...
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Our ecumenical companion site, www.LetAllCreationPraise.org , is maintained by long-time supporter and fellow Lutheran restoring creation, Nick Utphall. This site ...
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We need wisdom to sustain us as we live with the rest of Earth community. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the ...
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We Await the Transformation of the Cosmos. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on an orientation to God's Creation in the season of ...
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Thinking the Unthinkable - Tom Mundahl reflects on our communal lament and hope for wholeness. Care for Creation Commentary on ...
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Stay Alert with Hope; and Beware the Consumers of Christmas. - Tom Mundahl reflects on hope, watching, and serving. Care ...
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Let's Just Start Over! - Tom Mundahl reflects on the start of Advent in the midst of pandemic, climate crisis, ...
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Advent Is about Gathering for the New Creation. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on wilderness. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common ...
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Thinking about the Unthinkable - Tom Mundahl reflects on our desert struggle in the time of climate crisis. Care for ...
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Rejoice? - Tom Mundahl reflects on joy in the midst of grief. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  ...
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Joyful Anticipation of the Transformation of Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the cosmological significance of Christ. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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Living the Anticipation, with Joy and New Light - Tom Mundahl reflects on what it means to be whole. Care ...
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Courage - Tom Mundahl reflects on beholding versus seeing. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  Readings for the ...
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Bearing God into the World - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Christ's birth opening space and time for the renewal of Earth ...
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Jesus Ushers in a New Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the new creation we experience in baptism. Care for Creation ...
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Planting Trees as Symbol and Expression of the Restoration of Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on God's presence in creation. Care ...
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God Is the God of Embodiment throughout Earth and Sky! - Dennis Ormseth reflects on God's presence calling us to care ...
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This Changes Everything: No Longer Business as Usual - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Jesus inviting the common folk to join him ...
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It's Time to Break with Business as Usual and Tend God's Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on what we can learn ...
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For Those Who Are in Christ, Creation Is New! - Dennis Ormseth reflects on driving out the demon of climate change ...
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Divorced, Together -  Nick Utphall reflects on the connections in the family of creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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Join the Hymn of All Creation - Tom Mundahl reflects on ministering to creation as priests of God. Care for ...
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All Nature Sings! - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the incarnate God, given for all creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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If You Would Experience God, You Must Fall in Love with Earth - Dennis Ormseth reflects on baptism as a cosmic ...
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New Creation Is Proactive: Regenerative and Restoring - Dennis Ormseth reflects on becoming full participants in maximizing life's creativity. Care ...
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". . . a spirit from on high is poured out on us, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field" ...
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Coming Down to Earth - Tom Mundahl reflects on our vocation to make earth a hospitable household for all. Care ...
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Turning Around and Rethinking the "Royal Theology" of Our Time - Tom Mundahl reflects on the appeal of kingdom, power, ...
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Formed to “See” in the Way of the Cross - Robert Saler reflects on the scandalous particularity of our particular ...
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Expend your life for Jesus and the gospel of new creation, and you will save it. – Tom Mundahl reflects on ...
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Breathe in the Fragrance of Creation's Renewal – Tom Mundahl reflects on faith and courage for the renewal of creation. Care ...
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Projection, Humility, and the Call for Justice - Robert Saler reflects on preaching care for creation. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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Let’s have a Lenten fast from our consumer economy! – Tom Mundahl reflects on the continuation and completion of the Sabbath ...
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Loving the Cosmos as God Does - Tom Mundahl reflects on repenting of the "windigo" way. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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Preaching the Adventure of Passion – Robert Saler reflects on being a listening church. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common ...
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How can we allow the religion of consumption to threaten God’s future? – Tom Mundahl reflects on turning from darkness to ...
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Jesus and the Journey of Overcoming - Robert Saler reflects on God's healing. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common ...
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Wilderness As a Place of Possibilities - Tom Mundahl reflects on finding hope in barrenness. Care for Creation Commentary on ...
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Our economy should reflect the self-giving of God’s gift of creation, the life of Jesus, and the sharing in the ...
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Getting Real about the Mortality of the Earth - Robert Saler reflects on renouncing control over outcomes. Care for Creation ...
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Wisdom from Gardening - Tom Mundahl reflects on the seed that dies to bear fruit. Care for Creation Commentary on ...
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More than Eco-Palms - Leah Schade reflects on ecojustice and Passion Sunday. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary ...
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“How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!” - Dennis Ormseth reflects on community, trinity, and ...
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The Self-Giving of the Community is Rooted in the Self-Giving of the Creator. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on what it means ...
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Earth Itself Arose - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the Spirit of creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  Readings ...
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The Transformation of All Life - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the reorientation of creation to its sacred center. Care for Creation ...
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A Meal for All Sorts of Hunger - Dennis Ormseth reflects on a broad resurrection vision. Care for Creation Commentary on ...
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Jesus is the Gardener - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the garden as the place of restoration. Care for Creation Commentary on ...
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Root from Dry Ground - Kiara Jorgenson reflects on the themes of water in the Holy Week texts. Care for Creation ...
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All Creation Is Raised Up - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the Great Economy of the Good Shepherd. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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Creation is our Home, the Abiding Place of Nurture and Sustenance - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the manner with which we ...
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We do indeed have this “good shepherd” in whose presence we may dwell all our days. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on ...
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In Christ's Resurrection the Earth Itself Arose - Dennis Ormseth reflects on creation acting on behalf of its Creator. Care for ...
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Vine and Branches Rooted in God’s Good Earth - Dennis Ormseth reflects on hope for all who live in exile from ...
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A flourishing planet in which all of life together is filled with the glory of God. - Dennis Ormseth Care ...
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Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. - Dennis Ormseth  Care for Creation Commentary on the Common ...
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Our human harmony with all of life is grounded in the great, all-encompassing, self-giving of God. - Dennis Ormseth Care ...
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Living the Ecological Vocation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the source of new life for all creation. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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The Season of Creation is an optional season of the church year that celebrates God the creator and various domains ...
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Everything Is Changed - Dennis Ormseth reflects on reorientation of the community to God's creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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Liberation and Restoration of the Whole Creation. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the relations of the Holy Trinity encompassing all ...
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A New and Restorative Ordering of Life - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the kingdom of God and the great ecology ...
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How is the God of creation related to the storms of global climate change? - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the interconnected ...
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The Full Sacredness of All the Earth - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Jesus crossing and removing boundaries. Care for Creation ...
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God Does Not Desire That Creatures Suffer  - Amy Carr reflects on waiting and suffering, fairness and balance. Care for ...
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Congregations who embrace care for creation will find joy in the initiatives they undertake. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on becoming faithful ...
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Prophets and Apostles in Our Midst  - Amy Carr reflects on a God-driven vision of right relations in our shared ...
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The Season of Creation is an optional season of the church year that celebrates God the creator and various domains ...
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The Season of Creation is an optional season of the church year that celebrates God the creator and various domains ...
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The Season of Creation is an optional season of the church year that celebrates God the creator and various domains ...
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Marriage, Family, and the Community of Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the profound mutuality between male and female in creation. Care ...
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Earth, Sky, and Water - Tom Mundahl reflects on "the commons" we all share. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common ...
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Restoring Right Relationship - Nick Utphall reflects on breaking the perpetual cycle of scapegoats and violence. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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The Whole of Inter-Related Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the meals of Jesus overcoming our "reconciliation deficit disorder." Care ...
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Where Most of Us Stand - Nick Utphall reflects on finding our place in the struggle to care for the world's family ...
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Faithfulness Will Spring Up from the Ground - Tom Mundahl reflects on God's shalom trumping "royal theologies." Care for Creation Commentary ...
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Who Will Shepherd the Shepherdless? - Dennis Ormseth reflects on a way of life where vices have been transformed into economic ...
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“Gather the pieces that are left over and let nothing be wasted”—reverential economy of our use of God’s grace. - ...
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Bread That Gives Life to the World - Tom Mundahl reflects on the reverential economy of God's grace. Care for ...
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The Bread of Christ Is Life, and All of Life Is Communion. - Tom Mundahl reflects on the divine energy ...
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“The Choice Before Us is Stark.” -  Dennis Ormseth Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  Readings for Sunday ...
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Heaven-Sent Bread -  Amy Carr reflects on how the bread of life moves us more fully into an appreciation of ...
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Shepherds and Children - Tom Mundahl reflects on restoring a healing relationship with the natural world. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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On Star Trek and Saving the Planet: Messianic Miracles in a New Key - Amy Carr reflects on living toward ...
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Jesus as Suffering Servant - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the exemplar for our relationship with all of Earth community. Care for ...
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Part 3: "Francis: Man of Wealth" - Paul Santmire honors St. Francis of Assisi with a 3-Sunday commentary series. Care for ...
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Part 2: "Francis: Child of God" - Paul Santmire honors St. Francis with a 3-Sunday commentary series. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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Impossible for Humans but Possible by God's Grace - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Jesus calling people to relinquish wealth for others ...
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Part 1: "Francis: Prophet of God." - Paul Santmire honors St. Francis of Assisi with a 3-Sunday commentary series. Care ...
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To Stand Beholding - Tom Mundahl reflects on an alternative to our cravings and their resulting garbage. Care for Creation ...
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Did God not make creation for the common good?  - Tom Mundahl reflects on threats to community well-being.    Care for Creation ...
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“This is what love looks like!” - Tom Mundahl reflects on resisting global climate change. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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Reaching to the Heart of Faith - Tom Mundahl reflects on the church's response to climate change. Care for Creation Commentary on ...
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Good Laws or Pure Persons? - Amy Carr reflects on the nature of pollution. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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The Hospitality of the World - Tom Mundahl reflects on membership in contrast to individualism. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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