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UCC in Focus | Society
Ending a marriage is tough. Imagine what it’s like when you’re a minister
"There’s not only the fishbowl of congregational life to contend with, but also the real or self-imposed holier-than-thou expectations that somehow ministers ought to be immune to marital dysfunction"
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UCC in Focus | Society
5 hard truths of where United Church congregations fall short
Care to talk about tithing? How about evangelism? The author confronts the church’s taboos.
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Spirituality | Health
New research says praying can change your brain, no kidding
More activity in the frontal lobes, and parts controlling visualization, language, emotion
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Spirituality | Theology
Progressive Kansas City church calls itself the future of faith
Integral Christianity recasts the Trinity into Infinite, Intimate and Inner, relies on mysticism and song
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Spirituality | Theology
The many faces of Jesus
Good shepherd. Revolutionary. Cherished friend. Messiah. The images we create of Christ tell as much about ourselves as they do about the man who lived 2,000 years ago.
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Spirituality | Culture
How connecting ecofeminism and faith can change the world
Heather Eaton, author of "Introducing Ecofeminist Theologies" and professor at Ottawa's Saint Paul University, talks about religion and ecology
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UCC in Focus | Church News
United Church leaders’ pilgrimage to U.K. festival lifts spirits, hopes
Moderator Rt. Rev. Gary Paterson and 113 other church leaders headed to the Cotswolds for a spot of tea and rejuvenation
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World | Religion
Haiti religion, Vodou, maligned for centuries, is rising anew
Christian colonizers called it "voodoo" and said it was a deviant sect filled with pin-stuck dolls, zombies and curses
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Spirituality | Society
Death. It’s inevitable. So let’s talk about it.
It’s natural to be anxious about dying. But facing up to our mortality can help us live better today.
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UCC in Focus | Society
‘Our life was the picture of normal until Terry came out’
Terry and Anne Wood had a normal married life. All of that changed when Terry, a lay minister, realized he was a woman trapped in a man’s body.
