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Topics: UCC in Focus | Society
5 hard truths of where United Church congregations fall short
By Trisha Elliott |Care to talk about tithing? How about evangelism? The author confronts the church’s taboos.
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Topics: Spirituality | Health
New research says praying can change your brain, no kidding
By Trisha Elliott |More activity in the frontal lobes, and parts controlling visualization, language, emotion
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Topics: Spirituality | Theology
Progressive Kansas City church calls itself the future of faith
By Trisha Elliott |Integral Christianity recasts the Trinity into Infinite, Intimate and Inner, relies on mysticism and song
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Topics: Spirituality | Theology
The many faces of Jesus
By Trisha Elliott |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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Topics: Spirituality | Culture
How connecting ecofeminism and faith can change the world
By Trisha Elliott |Heather Eaton, author of "Introducing Ecofeminist Theologies" and professor at Ottawa's Saint Paul University, talks about religion and ecology
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Topics: UCC in Focus | Church News
United Church leaders’ pilgrimage to U.K. festival lifts spirits, hopes
By Trisha Elliott |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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Topics: World | Religion
Haiti religion, Vodou, maligned for centuries, is rising anew
By Trisha Elliott |Christian colonizers called it "voodoo" and said it was a deviant sect filled with pin-stuck dolls, zombies and curses
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Topics: Spirituality | Society
Death. It’s inevitable. So let’s talk about it.
By Trisha Elliott |It’s natural to be anxious about dying. But facing up to our mortality can help us live better today.
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Topics: UCC in Focus | Society
‘Our life was the picture of normal until Terry came out’
By Trisha Elliott |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.
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Topics: Wellness | Culture
Anxiety is natural — but today it’s mass produced by “fear entrepreneurs”
By Trisha Elliott |The 9/11 generation sees danger everywhere, raising questions about how we combat the culture of fear