Blackmon: Our call to discipleship requires more
There was a school shooting in my hometown of St. Louis last week. I wish such an announcement...
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Blackmon: Let us mark Epiphany, learning from Jan. 6 and the tragedies of our past
Today, Jan. 6, marks the beginning of the Christian liturgical season of Epiphany. Epiphany...
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This Is Most American
When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to...
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Commentary: Shall We Gather at The Table?
One of the things I love most about the United Church of Christ is the professed wideness of our...
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UCC leader offers prayers, words of grief and solidarity following Congregation Chabad shooting
Following the Saturday shooting at a California synagogue, the latest incident of terrorism by a...
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Traci Blackmon: If these walls could talk
The Rev. Traci Blackmon, Associate General Minister of Justice and Local Church Ministries United...
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Commentary: Peace on Earth? What Peace?
“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but...
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…and GOD was with the boy. Genesis 21:20
I spent the last week of August at the border in Tucson, Arizona with the people of faith from...
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Lift Every Voice
‘Shout out, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet!’ - Isaiah 58:1 In Hebrew...
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Commentary: Sounding the Alarm
no one leaves home unlesshome is the mouth of a sharkyou only run for the borderwhen you see the...
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Commentary: Shutting Down Did Not Shut Us Up
Just weeks ago we experienced a three-day government shutdown. The U.S. government ran out of money...
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Hope is Born Anew
For a child has been born for us, a son given to us;authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is...
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Commentary: Always a good day for Reformation
This year marks the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation.On October 31,1517 Martin Luther wrote a...
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Rev. Traci Blackmon: It is up to US to stop gun violence
Truly God is good to the upright, to those who are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost...
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Commentary: Our State of Mass Incarceration
When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, "This is how your slave treated me," he...
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Commentary: Never Again
One year ago today I arrived in Orlando, Fla., for what I envisioned to be a trip with a few brief...
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Commentary: Do not deny care to our neighbor
'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison,...
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Christmas Comes Anyway
And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a...
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Commentary: Remember Sandy Hook with responsible gun laws
Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; ...
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Commentary: Whose Side is God On?
"Who is on the LORD's side? Let him come unto me" (Exodus 32:26)During my growing up years kickball...
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