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2025-11-05T20:41:28-05:00

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Handy Contemplative Practices for Political Spaces

Last updated on: November 5, 2025 at 8:41 pm By Sarah Forti

A Spiritually Grounded Presence In order to bring a spiritually grounded presence into the public spaces and political discussions of our outer life, one must be intentional about the personal practices that are filling and forming our inner life. For instance, to bring a prayerful presence outwardly into a space where political tension may arise, one must first be formed inwardly by an intentional prayer practice. The question is one of alignment between our inner and outer lives, so that... Read more

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2025-10-31T14:16:09-04:00

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Halloween: The Holiday of Loving Your Neighbor

Last updated on: October 31, 2025 at 2:16 pm By Sarah Forti

All Hallows Eve Is Halloween the least Christian holiday in America, or could it be the most Christian holiday? When discussing Halloween with the children in my church, I remind them of the meaning of All Hallows Eve. I ask them where else we hear the word “hallow” or “hallowed”, and we turn to the Lord’s Prayer: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. We talk about how “hallowed” means holy. All Hallows Eve (or “all holy... Read more

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2025-10-09T19:22:41-04:00

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Trusting Jesus’s Hard Parables: The Shrewd Manager

Last updated on: October 9, 2025 at 7:22 pm By Sarah Forti

There was a Rich Man “Then Jesus said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property. So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management because you cannot be my manager any longer.’ Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away... Read more

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2025-07-24T20:45:29-04:00

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How Mary and the Good Samaritan teach us to Press Pause

Last updated on: July 24, 2025 at 8:45 pm By Sarah Forti

Mary and Martha As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” “Martha, Martha,”... Read more

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2025-06-09T15:32:13-04:00

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How Pentecost Challenges our False Stories

Last updated on: June 9, 2025 at 3:32 pm By Sarah Forti

Why The Setting Matters This week’s story of the Holy Spirit coming at Pentecost takes place in the Upper Room. By now the Upper Room is pretty familiar to the disciples. Many historians believe that at the birth of Jesus, Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem and probably tried to stay in an Upper Room. We frequently think of them going to an inn, but it was probably more like a guest room. There was no place in the guest... Read more

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2025-03-27T14:43:56-04:00

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How Jesus Teaches us to Respond to Suffering

Last updated on: March 27, 2025 at 2:43 pm By Sarah Forti

Is There Anybody Who Has Not Experienced Suffering? Everybody has. Every one of us has experienced suffering, including Jesus. It would be one thing to have a teacher who never experienced what they were teaching, but his parables aren’t just stories or theories. We can trust Jesus as our teacher, and not just because he’s God incarnate, but also because he’s been through it. He not only sees our suffering, he understands it. Jesus knows how we respond to suffering. ... Read more

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2025-02-25T00:09:02-05:00

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Love Your Enemy: The Strength to Follow Jesus’ Hardest Call

Last updated on: February 25, 2025 at 12:09 am By Sarah Forti

The Hardest Teaching “But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies; do good to those who hate you; bless those who curse you; pray for those who abuse you. If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. Give to everyone who asks of you, and if anyone takes away what is yours, do not ask for it back again. Do to others as... Read more

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2025-02-24T16:18:34-05:00

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Cast the Net Again: Being Fishers of Men

Last updated on: February 24, 2025 at 4:18 pm By Sarah Forti

Abundance in the Lunchbox “Once while Jesus was standing beside the Lake of Gennesaret and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the... Read more

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Home and Religion

2025-01-24T18:37:24-05:00

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Remembering Our Baptism with Narnia

Last updated on: January 24, 2025 at 6:37 pm By Sarah Forti

The Shedding of the Skin My husband and I always spend Christmas Day at home, but then in the days following Christmas we travel down to Florida to see my immediate family. We have a lot of rhythms and rituals to our annual trip, including listening to audiobooks while we’re on the road. We’re working our way through the Chronicles of Narnia, and we listened to the Voyage of the Dawn of Treader on this most recent trip. The Dawn... Read more

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2025-01-01T17:20:03-05:00

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The Gospel Message in Mary’s Magnificat

Last updated on: January 1, 2025 at 5:20 pm By Sarah Forti

And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowly state of his servant. Surely from now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name; indeed, his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation. He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in... Read more

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