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2020-06-01T11:21:35-06:00

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A Letter to My Beloved White Friends

Last updated on: June 1, 2020 at 11:21 am By Kathleen Mulhern

My friend, Karla, has written a post on her blog addressing the racial lament, confusion, and rage pervading our culture today. I appreciated her words, and I think you would be blessed to read them. Lord, have mercy. A Letter to My Beloved White Friends Image by Momentmal from Pixabay Read more

2019-12-10T12:34:35-07:00

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The Adoration of the Magi: Our Impoverishment

Last updated on: December 10, 2019 at 12:34 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

Adoration of the Magi, Edward Burne Jones, 19th c. Shall we adore Our Lord Jesus Christ? Is he worthy? “Behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, ‘Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.’ … They saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold... Read more

2019-12-06T13:55:33-07:00

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Advent Darkness: It’s Not the New Normal

Last updated on: December 6, 2019 at 1:55 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

These are dark days, darker for some than for others. Dark, for some, in grievous loss of a child; dark, for others, in job loss and illness; darker still for trafficked girls and Central Americans caught in immigration limbo and the homeless single parent and the broken family and the desperate of all sorts. Darkest of all for those without any love. Advent bids us to embrace the darkness, not as a thing in itself to relish, but as the... Read more

2019-11-27T14:40:33-07:00

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Up the Sunbeam to the Sun: from Gratitude to Adoration

Last updated on: November 27, 2019 at 2:40 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

The Gospel of John doesn’t really deal in miracles, per se, but rather signs. The miraculous things that Jesus does–healings, raising of the dead, turning water into wine, feeding the hungry–come to his people as messages from the Father. Look! See! Understand! As signs, they can be received with gratitude for what they are–good wine, new sight, copious amounts of bread–but they’re meant to lead to more. They’re meant to lead to vision. Thanksgiving is just the beginning, the gateway.... Read more

2019-11-15T17:47:00-07:00

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Dear Rev. MacArthur, do you think I am just dazzled and muddled?

Last updated on: November 15, 2019 at 5:47 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome, c. 200-400 Today I listened to Rev. John MacArthur double down on his comments about Beth Moore and women in the church. I listened to nearly 75 minutes of doubling down. He discussed all the big “women’s roles” texts: 1 Corinthians 14, 1 Corinthians 11, Genesis 3, Titus 2, 1 Timothy 2. His remarks covered everything from women preaching and teaching to the named women in the Old Testament (Miriam’s prophetic role was, after all, really... Read more

2019-11-12T10:19:54-07:00

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Dark Faith

Last updated on: November 12, 2019 at 10:19 am By Kathleen Mulhern

It seems to me at this stage of my life that one of the harder parts of maturing in faith is coming to grips with the fact that all of scripture, all of our experience in Christ, all the core beliefs and convictions of the Christian gospel, all the ancient writings and great teachings and profound ideas of all the saints—all of this put together is still not enough to answer some of the profoundly difficult questions we face. I... Read more

2019-10-07T11:54:03-06:00

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Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it

Last updated on: October 7, 2019 at 11:54 am By Kathleen Mulhern

“Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.” This line from Reinhold Niebuhr’s famous Serenity Prayer keeps goading me. It compels me to face with honesty, and challenges my smugness in, my refusal to accept this world as it is, my absolute rejection of “as it is” and my insistence on “as I would have it.” Sometimes my refusals and rejections are quite righteous, honestly. A couple at our church loses a... Read more

2019-10-06T15:11:16-06:00

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To You Who Are Suffering

Last updated on: October 6, 2019 at 3:11 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

Today I offer you this guest entry, with thanks for permission to post. I have added an image that seems appropriate. To the reader who is suffering, I have become increasingly aware of you. Some years ago I lost a beloved, and I was told how the experience would make me more compassionate. It did not. I cared nothing for the pain of others—only for my own. I’m older now, and more experienced in the ways of suffering. I... Read more

2019-09-17T19:17:30-06:00

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God’s Failure to Act

Last updated on: September 17, 2019 at 7:17 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

As I work my way through Exodus again, I come to this verse: “Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked” (23.7). It’s only a small example of what runs rampant through the Torah–commandments and consequences. God warns his people about serious offenses, and spells out the inevitable results of bad choices. And I think to myself, well, this is the problem right here. Fair warning from God, but... Read more

2019-06-24T14:10:20-06:00

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Selfie Spirituality, or the Dubitable Power of Telling My Story

Last updated on: June 24, 2019 at 2:10 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

In last Sunday’s gospel (Lk 8.26-39), Jesus tells the man delivered from demons to “return to your home and declare how much God has done for you.” Here’s the heart of personal testimony, that ancient and yet superlatively evangelical practice. There’s nothing like the power of the personal story testifying to an encounter with Jesus to persuade and enlighten another. In some ways, testimony is the key to community in the evangelical world. In my childhood church, giving your testimony... Read more

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