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Luke 5:1-11 One of my favorite recent movies to come out is Conclave. Ralph Fiennes plays Dean Lawrence, one of the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church. The movie opens with the death of the current pope, and Lawrence is responsible for convening and leading the conclave and the
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Isaiah 43:1-2, 18-19 Dr. Howard Thurman was a Black, Baptist, theologian, pastor, educator, mystic, civil rights leader and mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr. and others. Listen to this excerpt from his work: “There is in every person something that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine
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Isaiah 35:1-7a Mark 7:24-37 One of my all-time favorite TV shows is “Call the Midwife” from the BBC. It’s a great show for many reasons. The characters are diverse in their life experiences and have their own arcs of change and development that intersect with one another.
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Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 James 1:17-27 In a story told by a rabbi, a well-renowned expert and teacher of the law was going to be teaching in a nearby synagogue. When a devout Jewish scholar of the law heard this, he told his community of scholars and practitioners, and