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2018-11-12T16:21:22-05:00

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Who Is An Interspiritual Pilgrim?

Last updated on: November 12, 2018 at 4:21 pm By Bruce Epperly

Recently, when I shared the title of my newly-published book, “Become Fire: Guideposts for Interspiritual Pilgrims,” my companion asked, “What’s an interspiritual pilgrim? I get ‘spiritual,’ but ‘interspiritual,’ that I don’t understand. How does this relate to being a pilgrim? Or a Christian?” This was a perfect opening for me to share my story and the story of millions of people who actively cultivate interspirituality or hybrid spirituality or, as others call it, multiple spiritual practices. But, instead of a... Read more

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2018-11-06T16:36:52-05:00

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The Adventurous Lectionary – The Twenty Sixth Sunday of Pentecost – November 18, 2018

Last updated on: November 6, 2018 at 4:36 pm By Bruce Epperly

The Adventurous Lectionary – The Twenty Sixth Sunday after Pentecost – November 18, 2015 I Samuel 1:4-20, Psalm 16, Hebrews 10:11-25, Mark 13:1-8 Today’s readings describe answers to prayer as well as future hope and challenge. In many ways they are challenging because they are distant from our lived experiences – strange encounters with priests, vying among wives, sacrificial high priests, and cataclysmic events. Yet, when we look more deeply, an underlying message emerges. Despite life’s difficulties and threats, God... Read more

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2018-11-06T16:28:57-05:00

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The Adventurous Lectionary – The Twenty Sixth Sunday after Pentecost – November 18, 2015

Last updated on: November 6, 2018 at 4:28 pm By Bruce Epperly

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2018-11-06T06:41:49-05:00

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Adventurous Lectionary – Pentecost 25 – November 11, 2018

Last updated on: November 6, 2018 at 6:41 am By Bruce Epperly

Today’s scriptures describe God’s faithless in times when we feel most in need, spiritually and economically. We recognize that we live in a world in which fear is used to motivate political decisions and personal priorities. We are often counseled more about threats than possibilities. We have resources all around us, and yet we are told to consider what we lack and thus to live by individualistic insecurity rather than divine abundance. The most powerful nation in the world is... Read more

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2018-10-28T18:35:44-04:00

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“How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere”: A Panentheistic Adventure with Andrew Davis and Philip Clayton

Last updated on: October 28, 2018 at 6:35 pm By Bruce Epperly

It has been said that God created humankind because God loves stories. “How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere: An Anthology of Spiritual Memoirs” (Monkfish) celebrates stories that transform our lives, theologically, spiritually, ethically. The book is the affirmation of “panentheism” as a pathway to God for spiritual seekers. Briefly put, panentheism proclaims “God in all things and all things in God.” God is the spirit of life, the dynamic, creative, and intelligent energy “in whom we live and... Read more

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2018-10-24T17:10:16-04:00

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The Adventurous Lectionary – Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost – November 4, 2018

Last updated on: October 24, 2018 at 5:10 pm By Bruce Epperly

The Adventurous Lectionary – Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost – November 4, 2018 Ruth 1:1-18 (3:1-5; 4:13-17) Psalm 146 Hebrews 9:11-14 Mark 12:28-34 I believe that context is important in preaching and scripture study. We must study and preach in light of our political, social and economic context. In that regard, reading Ruth requires us to ponder the immigrant caravan, traveling from Honduras, the inflammatory and false rhetoric of politicians, and the reality of nearly seventy million refugees and displaced persons.... Read more

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2018-10-23T18:31:46-04:00

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Ruth, Immigration, and the Seven Steps of Creative Transformation

Last updated on: October 23, 2018 at 6:31 pm By Bruce Epperly

The Book of Ruth is more than a quaint love story. It portrays two women of agency and adventure. In fact, in these days of demonizing immigrants, attacking women who have been traumatized by male behavior, and inhospitality to diversity, Ruth may be one of the most relevant books in the Bible. Ruth is a love story, but the love portrayed in Ruth is the love of two women who need each other to survive, a romance that crosses ethnic... Read more

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2018-10-23T06:08:16-04:00

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Ruth, Jesus, and the Migrant Invasion

Last updated on: October 23, 2018 at 6:08 am By Bruce Epperly

The bible has been described as the ultimate immigration story. The biblical story describes people constantly on the move, following God’s guidance into new and unknown lands. Jacob and his family are part of a wave of immigrants emigrating into Egypt to escape starvation. Their descendants, the Hebraic peoples, escape Egypt and migrate to Canaan, the tribal forerunners of David’s empire and eventually the nation of Israel. Borders are porous and relative in God’s eyes and God often guides people... Read more

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2018-10-20T17:30:54-04:00

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Revelation at the Bus Stop: Divine Wisdom’s Wondrous Disguise

Last updated on: October 20, 2018 at 5:30 pm By Bruce Epperly

Paul Simon once wrote that “the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.” I know this to be true. Sometimes divine guidance comes where you least expect it, from the marginalized, forgotten, and overlooked, from people whom you would never expect to be sources of wisdom and insight. God’s inspiration is broadcast far and wide. The obvious purveyors of divinity may be least likely places where God chooses to share a word of grace.... Read more

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2018-10-17T08:01:16-04:00

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The Adventurous Lectionary – The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost – October 28, 2018

Last updated on: October 17, 2018 at 8:01 am By Bruce Epperly

The Adventurous Lectionary – The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost – October 28, 2018 Job 42:1-6, 10-17 Psalm 34:1-8 Hebrews 7:23-28 Mark 10:36-42 This week we conclude our journey with Job. We have covered a lot of ground over the past few weeks: there is a debate in heaven, God gets hot under the collar when Ha’ satan challenges Job’s piety and lets the divine district attorney take everything from Job, Job suffers a theological crisis, challenges an apparently arbitrary and... Read more

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