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2024-09-03T12:16:24-07:00

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What If God Is Not Only in the Peace but Also in the Pain?

Last updated on: September 3, 2024 at 12:16 pm By Cara Meredith

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I am reminded of a scene from 15, 20 years ago, about a singular story with a mostly singular point of view. As some of you know, I used to be in full-time ministry with an organization that primarily worked with middle school and high school kids. During the summer, we went to camp. A lot. We took kids (which is to say, the students we worked with) to camp and we attended camp ourselves, as speakers and activities directors,... Read more

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2024-09-03T11:24:54-07:00

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The Power of Dignity: A Reflection on Jesus’s Teachings

Last updated on: September 3, 2024 at 11:24 am By Cara Meredith

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In our house, there is typically one rule I try and employ to my nine and eleven-year old children: You will show kindness. You will be kind, in other words. You will be a kind human toward your brother. Of course, I generally say this when a lack of kindness is evident. Take a couple days ago, for instance: I’d just picked the boys up from school. It’s mid-afternoon, a time some might say is getting dangerously close to the... Read more

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The Greatest Commandment

2024-09-03T11:05:11-07:00

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How Can We Live in Hope Amid Uncertainty?

Last updated on: September 3, 2024 at 11:05 am By Cara Meredith

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Perhaps like some of you, in the fall, my weekends are filled with soccer. I’m not talking about professional futbal on television, I’m talking about the 9-and 11-year youth soccer variety. Yesterday was no exception. When my younger son took a free kick from the corner (not a corner kick, mind you), the ball sailed through the air and landed right in front of the goal. But there wasn’t a man there. What were the Flaming Hot Cheetos to do?... Read more

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2024-09-03T10:41:51-07:00

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How do we love our neighbor?

Last updated on: September 3, 2024 at 10:41 am By Cara Meredith

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It’s fine to say you love your neighbor as yourself, but what does that actually look like in practice? How do you actually live out your ultimate rule? As one theologian reminds us, “to follow only the ‘love God” commands is to only half-follow the Ten Commandments. In order to love God properly, one must properly love their neighbors, even the neighbors with whom one disagrees.” UGH. How then do we love our neighbors? One of my favorite nonprofit organizations... Read more

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2024-08-20T09:01:14-07:00

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The Holy Act of Eating and Drinking: A Spiritual Perspective

Last updated on: August 20, 2024 at 9:01 am By Cara Meredith

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Have you ever felt desperate for thirst? So hungry for food that you would have done anything to get food into your belly, stat? Just about a year ago, a friend of mine decided that to celebrate her 50th birthday, she would invite a handful of girlfriends to trek up a really tall mountain with her. Although I would have rather celebrated the occasion with a fruity drink by an ocean in Mexico, I said yes to the adventure of... Read more

2024-08-15T12:34:35-07:00

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The Complex Legacy of Church Camp Experiences

Last updated on: August 15, 2024 at 12:34 pm By Cara Meredith

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Can I tell you a short story, dear reader? It’s a story of remembering, a story of childhood, a story of camp. — But for the small, antiquated sign on the side of the highway, you could easily miss the turn-off for camp. Once you passed the Dairy Queen and drove through the towns of Boring and Welches, you knew you were getting close. Pass the hardware store, you’d gone too far. I remember becoming so transfixed by the Douglas firs... Read more

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2024-06-26T10:17:11-07:00

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With wild desperation comes one thing: a wild kind of mercy

Last updated on: June 26, 2024 at 10:17 am By Cara Meredith

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Have you ever felt so desperate for something, you’d do anything to make desperation go away? Last month, my boys and I embarked on a two-week road trip through Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, and even a tiny slice of Montana. We camped. We stayed in guest bedrooms and an RV and a run-down motel by the side of I-80 in Winnemucca, Nevada. We ate more fast food than we probably should have, but we also drank healthy amounts of chocolate... Read more

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2024-06-26T10:15:59-07:00

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God is here, in this place, with us

Last updated on: June 26, 2024 at 10:15 am By Cara Meredith

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It’s that time of year again: it’s time to talk about tomatoes. A year ago, I stood in this pulpit for the first time and talked about rest, about the sabbath, about waiting on God. But I also talked about tomatoes, because even though we’d just moved from one side of Oakland to the other, I held high hopes for our scraggly, barely-survived-transportation, potted tomatoes. Several of you came up to me afterwards: I grow tomatoes too, you said. It... Read more

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2024-06-26T10:15:11-07:00

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Even now, hope is still present in the darkest of spaces

Last updated on: June 26, 2024 at 10:15 am By Cara Meredith

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It was just another Sunday by all outward accounts: I preached that morning in San Rafael, at the Episcopal church where I’m on once-a-month preaching rotation. That afternoon, my husband and our boys headed to the A’s game, while I walked a block and a half to a neighbor’s backyard for Garden Club. A couple hours passed. When I then walking home from Garden Club with a couple of neighbors, my phone rang. It was my husband: he probably wanted... Read more

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2024-06-26T10:14:07-07:00

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What can we do to bring some hope to a dark world?

Last updated on: June 26, 2024 at 10:14 am By Cara Meredith

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As often happens in the summer months, we had family in town this last week. My sister and her two kids flew down from Washington state for cousin bonding and auntie-together time and general family shenanigans. But just before they left for the airport, my six-year-old niece told us how it was going to be. “Listen up! We’re going to have a parade!” Sammy shouted. “We’re going to play marching band! Here, grab and instrument. Let’s go!” If you’ve not... Read more

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