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Our Hispanic parents, the instrument of social change

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With national Father’s Day approaching I found myself thinking about the experience of growing up in Mexican-American and other Hispanic households in the post war […]

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The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus shows us the way

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This week many Christians throughout the world including our Roman Catholic brethren, fellow Anglicans and Episcopalians are celebrating the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart […]

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A prayer for Dave and the world

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Encountering a lonely homeless old man finding strength in Jesus’s message of love even if in other things different from mine was a spiritual moment. […]

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The Bible and neuroscience support infant baptism

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There are movements in Christianity in general and some in the Episcopal Church to delay the baptismal sacrament until adulthood or even dispense with it […]

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Are We becoming lazy in following Christ?

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In Thessalonians Paul warns Christians that they must work hard to transform the world for Christ’s return. Are falling baptism rates a sign of a […]

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Jesus is the only King of the Faithful

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We most often look at what Jesus did but sometimes we have to also recognize what he did not do. God is all knowing and […]

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Being saved is about love not fear

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Jesus did not come to conquer, intimidate, or scare us. He came to save us with love. Growing up in South Texas as a teenager […]

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The visitation of Mary to Elizabeth

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This week the Episcopal Lectionary celebrates the visitation of Mary visiting Elizabeth for three months in the hills of Judea. Her unborn son, John, senses […]

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We need the Trinity to be righteous with God

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God so loved the world that he gave his only son. He so loved his creation of man that he created the Trinity for man’s […]

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Our personal relationship with Jesus is inclusive not divisive

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The exact definition of a Christian beyond being a follower of Jesus Christ while uniting millions in a general sense but also divides us when […]