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True Unity Celebrates Diversity

May 24, 2022

True unity—in the church and in society—will only be achieved when we create communities where love is at the center, where differences are honored and celebrated, and all can feel and believe that we are truly one in Christ. … More True Unity Celebrates Diversity

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Easter Sunday: What Was Is Not What Will Be

April 17, 2022

Like the women who showed up Sunday morning, spices in hand, and returned to the disciples with a new story to tell, so too do we receive this day a new story, a new future, a new promise: What was is not what will be. … More Easter Sunday: What Was Is Not What Will Be

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Things We Can’t Control

March 13, 2022

What if we could free ourselves from the need to have everything go according to our plans and instead learned to live the lives God has called us to live as faithfully as we possibly can, and then left the rest to God? … More Things We Can’t Control

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Whoa, Hold Up!

February 13, 2022

With his list of “woes” in today’s Gospel reading, I think Jesus is trying to find a way to shake things up, to make us question our assumptions and ponder what really matters. … More Whoa, Hold Up!

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Rediscovering God’s Promises

January 23, 2022

When Ezra stands before the returned exiles and reads from their sacred scripture words probably none of them had ever heard before, they begin to weep–maybe because they experienced such grief at having lost those good words for so long. … More Rediscovering God’s Promises

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The Rev. Javen Swanson (he/him/his) serves as Associate Pastor at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota. … More

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