Author: Kimberly Long
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Why I Don’t Believe in Reformation Sunday
To highlight the Protestant reformation keeps the focus on our differences, rather than our similarities.
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This Is My Song
I am grateful that our PCUSA denominational hymnal does not include the U.S. national anthem.
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A Divorce Liturgy?
Will such a liturgy be used? It is hard to say.
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Preaching the Royal Wedding
They say his sermon should have been more “appropriate”—meaning, I can only surmise, that he should have preached whiter.
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Words, words, and more words…
Aside from the singing, the entire service consisted of words.
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Ars Praedicandi: Listening in the Wilderness
Some people give up something for Lent—chocolate, or booze, or some other pleasure. Some people instead take on a discipline or a practice, like daily devotions or acts of mission. Whatever we decide to do, or not to do, it seems to me that the most important thing in these forty days is to listen…
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A Protestant’s Love for Mary
Growing up Presbyterian, we didn’t talk about her much.
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A New Inclusive Marriage Service
Those who marry are called to a way of life “marked by grace, fidelity, and mutual respect.”
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“You Know What to Do:” Liturgy as a Labor of Love
I admit to nursing a bit of envy when I think of the ways Catholic worshipers are formed.