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Rector's Blog: Where is God
posted on May 12, 2023 This blog is also available as a podcast
Where is God when things are terrible? Where is God whe n I pray for the healing of a loved one and they get sicker? Where is God when I pray for their healing and they die instead? Where is ...
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Rector's Blog: Raise Your Hand
posted on May 5, 2023 This blog is also available as a podcast
The first time I ever got kicked out of class was for arguing with my teacher. I was in 5 th grade and Mr. Ahlers said that dinosaurs never existed. This was actually not the point of w...
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Rector's Blog: Listening for Love
posted on Apr 28, 2023 This blog is also available as a podcast. Each week in our Banquet service there is a time in the liturgy where people in the congregation are invited to respond directly to the homily - to ask the preacher questions, or make comments, or shar...
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Rector's Blog: Unprovable
posted on Apr 21, 2023 This blog is also available as a podcast Recently, I have written about some of the more mystical experiences I have had in my life. I wrote about hearing God speak to me on a mountainside , and about my father communicating to me ...
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Rector's Blog: The Phone Call
posted on Apr 7, 2023 This blog is also available as a podcast I remember the last phone call I had with my dad. It was right around Easter of 2006, and it was on one of those old phones that was actually connected to a wire and sitting on a table. It rang and I pi...
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Stations of the Cross - Did You Know?
posted on Mar 29, 2023 Did you know?
Stations of the Cross has a history in the Holy Week tradition here at Church of the Redeemer. You may have seen wooden crosses around the church with numbers on them and wondered what they were or how they got there. Inspired by...
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Family Ministry
A letter from our Diocesan Director of Youth & Campus Ministry
posted on Mar 26, 2023 A letter from our Diocesan Director of Youth & Campus Ministry Dear parents, We are so excited about the opportunities we have for our middle and high school students this summer! Senior high camp (for rising 9th-12th grade students) will be J...
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Rector's Blog: When God Feels Like It
posted on Mar 24, 2023 This blog is also available as a podcast
Last week I wrote about the time I found Jesus in a Beatles song . A few weeks ago I wrote about hearing the voice of God while hiking in Italy. Both of these things are true....
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Holy Week at Church of the Redeemer - Part 4
posted on Mar 22, 2023 The celebration of Easter begins at sundown on Saturday. The central service of the Christian year, the Great Vigil of Easter will begin in darkness at 8pm. This service leads us from death to life with Christ through fire, word, water, and bre...
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Rector's Blog: But Through Me
posted on Mar 17, 2023 This blog is also available as a podcast
When I was 14 I got in to an argument with some other kid's mom in youth group . She brought a video to our Sunday gathering about how R ock music comes from the Devil and made us al...
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