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Hell Fire

9/26/2016

I do want to say one more thing. Thinking about hell doesn’t help me live the way I should. I believe this is true for most people. And thinking that other people might go to hell just feels evil to me, like a very grave sin. So I don’t want to encourage anyone else to think that way. Even if you don’t assume that you can know in individual cases, it’s still a problem to think about people in general as if they might go to hell. – Pastor John Ames in Lila

Readings: Luke 16: 19-31
“Wild Geese” - by Mary Oliver

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Balm in Gilead

9/19/2016

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“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.”
― Wendell Berry, The Long-Legged House

Readings: Jeremiah 8:18-9:1, Luke: 16:1-13
"The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry

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Mercy

9/12/2016

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“10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.” ― Susan Sontag

Readings: Psalm 51 Luke 15: 1-10
To Live in the Mercy of God by Denise Levertov

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