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2025-06-25T16:30:05-07:00

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Is French Footballer Kylian Mbappe Muslim Or Christian?

Last updated on: June 25, 2025 at 4:30 pm By Cara Meredith

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When a reader recently posed the following question, I knew its answer wouldn’t be too hard to find: French Footballer Kylian Mbappe’s Faith Journey: Muslim Or Christian? After all, we’ve got some big Mbappe fans in our house. For the burgeoning soccer stars among us, Kylian Mbappé (better known, simply, as Mbappé) is everything. He’s arguably one of the best soccer players in the world. An immigrant, Mbappé was born in Paris and grew up in a Parisian suburb called Bandy.... Read more

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2023-08-31T12:53:12-07:00

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Grace Shows Up

Last updated on: August 31, 2023 at 12:53 pm By Cara Meredith

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Here’s a sermon for you, preached on June 11, 2022, at St. Paul’s Episcopal in San Rafael. Enjoy! Yesterday, my day went like this: Make some coffee. Walk the dog. Read a book. Take a shower. Make some food, eat some food. Volunteer at Guns to Gardens, a gun buyback event that takes surrendered guns and forges them into garden tools. Play around in the garden. Send some emails. Answer some texts. Bake some banana bread. Make homemade pizza. Write... Read more

2023-08-31T12:48:15-07:00

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Shaken Up by Grief

Last updated on: August 31, 2023 at 12:48 pm By Cara Meredith

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Here’s a sermon for you from November 6, 2022, preached at St. Paul’s Episcopal in San Rafael. Enjoy! On Friday, my husband James and I sat across the table with a new friend and our real estate agent. It was a time of remembering: remembering back to a little over a year and a half ago when our landlord informed us that she was going to sell the house. We needed to move. It was my birthday, that much I... Read more

2023-08-31T12:39:11-07:00

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Choosing Life

Last updated on: August 31, 2023 at 12:39 pm By Cara Meredith

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Here’s a sermon for you, preached on February 12, 2023 at St. Paul’s Episcopal in Oakland, California. Enjoy! A month or so ago, Garden Club met on our front porch. Garden Club is just as it sounds: a club for people who love gardens, who live in our neighborhood. I’d go on these walks with Rufus, the dog, and always noticed the front yards with raised vegetable beds or succulent displays, perfectly-trimmed rosebushes or walkways lined with tulips. Sometimes I’d... Read more

2023-06-07T16:06:42-07:00

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Do we really have to talk about humility right now?

Last updated on: June 7, 2023 at 4:06 pm By Cara Meredith

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Here’s a sermon for you from October 23, 2022, preached at St. Paul’s Episcopal in San Rafael. Eventually I’ll pen some regular articles again, but short sermons always feel appropriate for squeaky topics like humility, wouldn’t you say? Enjoy! — Ah, humility. In our house, the tendency to prove yourself better than your brother often happens, so much so that the words “one-upping” have become a regular part of my vocabulary. “Today, during lunch recess kickball, I kicked the ball... Read more

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2023-06-07T15:58:00-07:00

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Could God be getting your attention with a big, fat interruption?

Last updated on: June 7, 2023 at 3:58 pm By Cara Meredith

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This is a sermon given at St. Paul’s Episcopal in San Rafael on March 27, 2022. Although we’re not in the middle of Lent anymore, this whole idea of interruptions always feels rather appropriate if you ask me. Enjoy! — Here’s the truth: double-takes happen. They happen when we’re walking down the street, and we see a friend we haven’t seen in a decade: is that really her, him, them? Double take. They happen when the popping beauty of spring... Read more

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2023-06-07T15:49:57-07:00

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Can peace be found in the chaos?

Last updated on: June 7, 2023 at 3:49 pm By Cara Meredith

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Here’s another sermon given at St. Paul’s Episcopal in San Rafael on May 22, 2023. Feels rather evergreen to me, when it comes to the message; I trust it might be the same for you. Enjoy! — Yesterday, my boys and I loaded up the foldable wagon: camping chairs, blanket, towels, soccer ball, football, juice boxes, sparkle waters, chips, gluten-free hotdog buns, sunblock, cell phone, keys, and a book, just in case. We had everything we might need in the... Read more

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2023-06-07T15:40:39-07:00

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What is Wisdom saying to you?

Last updated on: June 7, 2023 at 3:40 pm By Cara Meredith

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This is a short sermon given at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on June 13, 2022. Seeing as Oakland’s second annual Guns to Gardens event is coming up this Saturday, it felt appropriate to feature this week! — Yesterday morning, I stood in the sun and in the shade in the At Thy Word Church parking lot in Oakland. The church is in a rough part of town, I’m not gonna lie. Chain link and wrought iron fences dot the front... Read more

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2022-11-04T18:09:43-07:00

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When did Christianity become the world’s largest religion?

Last updated on: November 4, 2022 at 6:09 pm By Cara Meredith

A question came across my desk the other day: When did Christianity become the world’s largest religion? For me, I don’t know if the when matters as much as the how? What does it mean to instead dig into the unconventional way Christianity came to surpass all other major world religions? First, some context: Christianity is an approximately two-thousand-year-old religion, based entirely on the life and teachings of Jesus. Christianity is made up of the Roman Catholic church, Eastern Orthodox... Read more

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2022-10-21T11:58:12-07:00

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A Story of the Underdogs

Last updated on: October 21, 2022 at 11:58 am By Cara Meredith

A sermon from March 13, 2022, given at St. Paul’s Episcopal in San Rafael: Sometimes I secretly call my son’s soccer team the Underdogs. They’re all heart. They go out there, emotions written on their sleeves. They chase after the ball. They epitomize the term, “bruiser.” They do these tricky things with their feet, when they have the ball – it’s kind of like kick to the back, no, to the side, nope, around my left foot, and look, I... Read more

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