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Topics: July/August 2023, UCC in Focus | Church News
How lay-led leadership could save rural churches
By Sara Jewell |More and more, non-ordained or commissioned leaders are becoming just as vital as full-time clergy
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Topics: January/February 2023, Spirituality | Society
Why funerals still matter
By Sara Jewell |End-of-life rituals are essential to the grieving process
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Topics: March 2022, UCC in Focus | Opinion
A moment at church allowed me to let go and cry for my mother
By Sara Jewell |I didn't shed a tear when when she was diagnosed, or when we celebrated her 65th birthday two weeks before her surgery
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Topics: April/May 2021, Spirituality | Interview
‘Naked Pastor’ pokes fun at the sacred with his cartoons
By Sara Jewell |Cartoonist David Hayward calls himself “a graffiti artist on the walls of religion”
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Topics: October 2020, Spirituality | Opinion
Gifts of food in moments of crisis help ease caregivers’ burdens
By Sara Jewell |Food “is one way we, as a community, express the care and compassion of Jesus for each other," says one ministry coordinator
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Topics: Ethical Living | Society
After the N.S. shootings, we’ve also lost a way of life
By Sara Jewell |A local United church leader reflects on the horror that shook rural communities
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Topics: Spirituality | Theology
This Holy Wednesday, consider a new symbol for our faith
By Sara Jewell |Jesus' life and ministry was about inviting people to the table
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Topics: April 2020, Ethical Living | Culture
Celebrating 50 years of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
By Sara Jewell |I continue to view the gospel through the lens of this rock opera
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Topics: December 2019, UCC in Focus | Society
Lower Sackville church starts free meals food truck
By Sara Jewell |The initiative targets youth and teens, who may not show up to church halls for a meal
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Topics: Ethical Living | Relationships
My sister’s big, beautiful, boisterous family
By Sara Jewell |The writer’s younger sister and her husband have seven children. Four of the kids were adopted internationally. Four have special needs. It all adds up to one boisterous household full of love.