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Have a Cup of Tea with Fear

On 03 Jun, 2012 By mpm

I gave this sermon this morning at First Congregational Church of Oakland.

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I wrote this sermon in 2006 for the Progressive Faith Bloggers Conference. I was thinking of it recently, and it just seemed so appropos for where I am, and where things are, so I thought I'd repost it.

Finding and claiming our prophetic voice

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The inherent violence of wealth

On 10 Jul, 2011 By mpm With 3 Comments

This is a belated, and long-percolated response to a blog post by my friend Ryan Dowell Baum. I am going to focus my discussion on one particular point that Ryan makes in his post:

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Evolution, Science, and God

On 18 Apr, 2009 By mpm With 2 Comments

I've been a fan of Darwin's ever since I read On the Origin of Species when I was a kid. I've even read parts of Steven J Gould's The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. I think there aren't really a whole lot more interesting scientific theories around (well, OK, I've become a recent fan of non-locality.) A while back, a couple of articles piqued my interest.

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Counting the Omer: Christian Orthodoxy vs. Orthopraxy

On 12 Apr, 2009 By mpm With 7 Comments

I came upon a stray tweet from someone I follow, which lead me on a search that led to an interesting blog entry asking "Why don't Christians count the Omer?" Counting the Omer, if you don't know, is a Jewish tradition of counting the 50 days between Passover (the liberation from slavery) and the holiday, Shavu'ot, which commemorates the giving of the Torah to the people of Israel.

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