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[serialposts]It’s the middle of chapter three in Ephesians and Paul is still penning words from prison. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of...
[serialposts]My fingers tap allegro on the chair in front of me, keeping time to the rhythm of my heart when I look at the back of her teenage head, her waif frame knuckled between siblings. I know this feeling; it isn’t the first time it’s hovered over me in church....
[serialposts]Have you ever noticed how much "Once upon a time" sounds like "In the beginning"? It's how the great stories begin (and reveals where the great stories were born). I noticed this when I read Ephesians the way I went looking for thimbleberries. We were...
[serialposts]I can remember talking about this passage in Confirmation as if it were yesterday. There's not much I remember from those middle school years, but this passage stuck with me. This is what makes us Lutheran, my pastor said. It is this passage that...
[serialposts]For many of these ideas, I am indebted to the excellent...
[serialposts] "It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are...
[serialposts]Ephesians is one of the best-loved books in the New Testament. ...
I wrote "Love" with a needle and dark blue embroidery thread, intending to...
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