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By Faith
MaryAnn McKibben Dana
July 26, 2009
Genesis 15:1-6
Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16
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Paul Jones remembers the day that he found faith—or perhaps I should say, the day faith found him.
By the time I heard the story, at a conference in Colorado, Paul Jones was a seminary trained theologian and ordained monk in the Trappist order. Over the course of his […]
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Perplexed and Ponderous
MaryAnn McKibben Dana
December 21, 2008
Luke 1:5-23, 1:26-38
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During our preaching class in seminary, we spent some time on reading scripture. The professors made the rather obvious point that we make interpretive choices, and those choices should inform how we deliver the reading of the text. For example, if Jesus is angry, you shouldn’t read the text […]
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