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Hospitality and Mental Illness
Rev. Charles J. Stephens May 25, 2014 OPENING WORDS A Friend Who Cares (Henri Nouwen) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of…
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Standing on the Side of Love Depends on A Sustainable Earth
Opening words: Albert Einstein, “A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe’ —a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical…
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What Is Good?
Sermon by the Rev. Charles J. Stephens March 13, 2014 I ended the last sermon in my series “Questions of Socrates” with the question, “What is Piety?” Socrates didn’t seem to be bothered by the size of the questions…
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Our Lady of Wisdom – and Wit, Equality, and Social Justice
Sermon by the Rev. Charles J. Stephens March 2, 2014 Opening Words: All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that…
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The Obamacare Wars Have Gone Holy and Unholy
Sermon by the Rev. Charles J. Stephens September 29, 2013 Matthew 25:35-40 New International Version (NIV) 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a…
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Why Bayard Rustin Is the Unknown Hero of the Civil Rights Movement
The Reverend Charles J. Stephens September 22, 2013 Opening Words: “Continuous resistance in nonviolent form breaks through the paralyzing peace which is peace for the master and misery for the mastered. Paradoxically, as it breaks the unjust social peace,…
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Peace, War and Atonement
by the Rev. Charles J. Stephens September 15, 2013 Announcement: The good news is that yesterday in Geneva the United States and Russia agreed on an outline for the identification and seizure of Syrian chemical weapons and said Syria must…
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Why Are There Always So Many Questions Left at the End of the Answers?
Sermon by the Rev. Charles J. Stephens September 1, 2013 Opening Words: Mahfauz, the Egyptian Nobel Laureate said, “You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his…
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