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Have you or someone you know experienced increased anxiety over the past few years? Do you find yourself feeling restless, easily fatigued, irritable? Do you experience difficulty concentrating, excessive feelings of worry or problems falling or staying asleep? If so, you are not alone. Anxiety has increased significantly over the past few years, for what seems…

“Walter Brueggemann defines materiality as the use of the material aspects of the Christian faith, as opposed to materialism, which places possessions and physical comfort over spiritual values.” This is how the term materiality is defined in the synopsis on the back cover of the book Materiality as Resistance: Five Elements for Moral Action in the Real World. I would expand this…

On September 30th in Morgan Hall, the Rev. Al Gephart will lead a workshop/discussion titled “God in You, Me, Hummingbirds, and Marigolds: Rethinking Christianity Today.” It’s a long title! The first part sounds sweet and innocuous. Who doesn’t love hummingbirds and marigolds? But the second portion of the title gets a little dicey. Rethinking Christianity?…

Dear Friends, This morning I attended a workshop put on by the presbytery’s Pastor Support Team titled “Recapturing our Spiritual Life.” The workshop was led by Rev. Keenan Barber, pastor of Moorpark Presbyterian Church. Part of what we did was to simply read a passage of scripture slowly, line by line, taking the time to…