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  1. Tuesday, July 14, 2020

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    07/14/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1791, and we remember the Priestly Riots. The reading is from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "My Baptismal Birthday."
    Tuesday, July 14, 2020

  2. Monday, July 13, 2020

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    07/13/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year is 1230, and we remember Jacopo de Voragine. The reading is an excerpt from St. Augustine's, "Confessions."
    Monday, July 13, 2020

  3. Sunday, July 12, 2020

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    07/12/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year is 1477, and we remember humanist, scholar, and Catholic controversialist Jacopo Sadoleto. The reading is Gerard Manley Hopkin's "O Deo, Ego Amp Te."
    Sunday, July 12, 2020

  4. Saturday, July 11, 2020

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    07/11/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year is 1926, and we consider theologian and author Frederick Buechner. The reading is from Buechner, "The Faces of Jesus.”
    Saturday, July 11, 2020

  5. Friday, July 10, 2020

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    07/10/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year is 1875, and we remember Mary Mcleod Bethune. The reading is Isaac Watts, “Behold What Wondrous Grace.”
    Friday, July 10, 2020

  6. What Color Is Jesus?

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    07/09/20
    2 mins
    By Joel Hess | Paul Koch
    Throughout the centuries and throughout earthquakes, famines, kingdoms falling and rising, God's Word has moved forward. Picking up pieces, people, lives, sins, and hopelessness only to turn them into diamonds through His Grace!
    What Color Is Jesus?

  7. Thursday, July 9, 2020

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    07/09/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    We consider the year 1766, and preacher Jonathan Mayhew. The reading is from Thomas C. Oden's, "Classic Christianity."
    Thursday, July 9, 2020

  8. Wednesday, July 8, 2020

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    07/08/20
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    We consider the year 1115 and Peter the Hermit. The reading is the last verse of the poem “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” by Bernard of Clairvaux.
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020

  9. Tuesday, July 7, 2020

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    07/07/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    We consider the year 1647 and the death of the “father of Connecticut,” Thomas Hooker. The reading is from "Tomb thou shalt not hold Him longer" by Phillips Brooks.
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020

  10. Monday, July 6, 2020

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    07/06/20
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1415. We remember the death of Jan Hus. The reading is from Hus’ “Exhortation to Peace."
    Monday, July 6, 2020

  11. Sunday, July 5, 2020

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    07/05/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    We remember the year 1962 and the death of Helmut Richard Niebuhr. The reading is an excerpt from Richard Niebuhr's sermon, “Man’s Work and God’s.”
    Sunday, July 5, 2020

  12. Saturday, July 4, 2020

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    07/04/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    We consider the year 1848 and Francois-Rene Chateaubriand. The reading is a selection from Ronnie McBrayer, "The Jesus Tribe: Following Christ in the Land of the Empire."
    Saturday, July 4, 2020