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Privileges and Responsibilities

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Membership has its privileges.  That’s the marketing slogan American Express copyrighted in 1980, the beginning of what became a “what’s-in-it-for-me” American decade. As one would-be church member asked me while I was planting a Presbyterian congregation during that time, “What do I get if I join?” The first time I replied… Read more »

Needles

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After 18 months of saturation news coverage of the pandemic, the televised images have become predictable. We see COVID patients lying in ICU beds.  Exhausted nurses.  Vials of vaccine rolling off pharmaceutical assembly lines.  Running tallies of the sick and dying.  Exasperated politicians.  Protesters chanting at workplaces and school board meetings.    Then there are the needles – seemingly endless… Read more »