May 2012
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Pentecost and Life Transitions: Empowered by the...
Acts 2:1-21 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the...
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Groaning in Labor Pains: The Struggles of being a...
Romans 8:22-27
We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies. For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for...
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Movement of creation: Searching for God's Spirit
Psalm 104
O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great. There go the ships, and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it. These all look to you to give them their food in due season; when you give to them, they gather it...
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Regrowing flesh and breathing in new life: Or, Why...
Ezekiel 37:1-14
The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” I answered, “O Lord GOD, you know.” Then he said to me,...
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Lessons from a five-year-old: Why Women in...
I have a friend. She has long dirty blonde hair, wears button-up striped shirts and her favorite TV show is Dora the Explorer. My friend is five-years-old. Despite a significant age difference my friend and I have many things in common. Much like myself, she loves books, dressing up and making crafts. Most Sunday mornings she and I sit together catching up on the week’s activities and...
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Advertising and Why I love Don Draper: A Response...
Season One, episode one of Mad Men, “Smoke Gets in your Eyes”
Don Draper: “What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons.”
Sunday nights my husband and I gather around the TV to watch a mesmerizing show and anticipate the next climactic moment of AMC’s hit Mad Men. We relish in the excitement and interwoven story lines of Don, Peggy, Betty, Pete, Joan and Roger. The...
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Which came first? Hermione or the women in the...
Although the series does not start with Hermione Granger and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the female of J.K. Rowling’s infamous trio created a persona for other women to emulate. While Harry’s fame emerges as the boy who lived, the series unfolds around a group of friends with intelligence, spunk, and courage. As the hard working, insecure, and strong willed female of the group,...
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Reclaiming Mother's Day in the name of Comedy:...
Issues regarding the female grow with popular demand. By definition, feminism promotes the equal opportunity of all human beings. It is not a growing issue of female over and above male rights but the equality and respect for individuals as distinct human beings.
One of my favorite waves of feminism recently trending is women’s right to equal comedy (i.e., women are funny - thank you...
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Best Job in the World? Mother's Day for the Sick...
The newest Olympic commercial makes me tear up. How about you? Mother’s gently waking their young ones for early morning practices, competitions, and workouts in hopes of achieving Olympic dreams. Behind the thoughts of world peace, uniting nations, and competitive prowess, is the idea of unity through motherhood. Each athlete was born to a mother, and possibly but not always, raised and...
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Mom's Cancer Makes Me Re-Imagine Mother's Day
With Mother’s Day quickly approaching, I have started to wonder about my motherhood (I am not currently a mother), the things learned from mothers I interact with and the inherent mothering skills which were passed on to me from my own mother. This week I will be exploring the role of mothers, sexuality of women and the importance of motherhood for all humankind. But first, we begin with...
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Feeling like a Eunuch: Graduation
Acts 8:26-40
Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning home; seated...
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Anti-Bullying: So much Hope and so much...
1 John 4:7-21
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the...
