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A Living Wage
How much money do you need to live well? That’s the question that the living wage movement has been trying to address, and lately, it has been having a moment. Y’all have probably seen the headlines—about fast foodworkers in NYC, Walmart employees across the country, small communities of hair braiders and manicurists taking to the…
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Que Será Christians
In my family, my parents liked to give each of their beloved children a “theme song.” And so it was that, growing up, my sister was haunted by family members singing “Rocky Raccoon,” and I found myself treated to regular group-singings of Doris Day’s mid-century hit, “Que Será.” I found myself thinking about that song…
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Ask Anything: Why Don’t Presbyterians Kneel When We Pray?
When you pray do you: -pray a prewritten prayer, like the Lord’s Prayer or Psalm 23? -did you have to learn how to pray, or did you always know? -do you follow a pattern or use a specific order? -do you say whatever is on your mind? -do you say anything? Or are you quiet?…
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Reading Calvin and the Rule of Love
This month, I will be preaching and teaching on questions that have come from the pews–we are calling it the “Ask Me Anything” sermon series, and so far the questions I have received have proven quite interesting. Initially, I had conceived of this as an opportunity for folks to ask questions about our faith and…
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“Salzburg, Republic of Austria, July 2006” by Melaney Poli
In order not to repeat history, it is not enough to know it, we must know ourselves, and our complicity. -Schillling Some days you have to take what you can get, and that day my mother was too sick to find yet one more crowded pavement cafe and the worst of it was, sitting…
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Sing A New Song: Psalms of New Orientation
One of the strengths of national holidays is that we are given an opportunity to reflect on the stories that we tell ourselves about who we are. Many of us are afforded some federally mandated time to pause and to remember the values and the struggles that have brought us as a country to where…
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How Long, O Lord? Psalms of Lament
If you were to take a look in your hymnal right now, smack in the middle, you would find that there are songs that are associated with Psalms. Part of the reason for this is because, in our tradition at least, for most of our history the songs we have sung have been the psalms…
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Thoughts on Charleston
Good Lord. We are up to our eyes in so much violence that it we forget that this is not what God intended for us,… and then a tragedy like Charleston jolts us back for a moment. I grieve for a creation that has forgotten that peace is better than a sword, I cry out…
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Our Duty to Delight
Psalm 1 Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate day and night. They are like trees planted by streams of water,…
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What We Do Not See: A Sermon for Memorial Day
Holidays like Memorial Day are interesting in my house—it’s one of the of those times of year when my husband and I get into some interesting conversations. You see, he is a professor of political science at UPENN, and his research focuses on war. He studies war quantitatively, which means that he ends up looking at…
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