As we began to think about persons with disabilities and the ways in which the church has excluded them, we read Ecclesiastes 3:1-8For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck […]
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In the days of ancient illness, King Saul experienced a long, slow descent into mental torment, part of which is described in 1 Samuel 16:14-23: Now the spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him. And Saul’s servants said to him, “See now, an evil spirit from
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As a framework for our conversation about HIV/AIDS and the Church, we considered the case of “leprosy” in the Biblical narrative. Leviticus 13:45-46 reads: “The person who has the leprous disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head be disheveled; and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, “Unclean,
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On World Communion Sunday, the question once asked of Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:25-29, see entries below) prompts us to look within our own faith tradition for an answer. How is it that we have moved from the days of Jesus, with a band of disciples following him on his journey through the
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As we have been thinking about the religious traditions of those among whom we live in light of the question once asked of Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:25-29, see entries below), we have encountered the question once asked by Jesus, “Who do you say that I am?” (Matthew16:13-15). As our conversations progressed, we
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