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  1. Friday, July 17, 2020

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    07/17/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1887, and we remember Dorothea Dix. The reading is a stanza from John Donne's "Annunciation."
    Friday, July 17, 2020

  2. Thursday, July 16, 2020

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    07/16/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year is 1915, and we remember Ellen G. White. The reading is a quote from Luther’s Sermons on the Gospel of St. John.
    Thursday, July 16, 2020

  3. Wednesday, July 15, 2020

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    07/15/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    We remember the year 1606 and Rembrandt von Rijn. The reading is a quote from Herman Bavinck's "The Philosophy of Revelation."
    Wednesday, July 15, 2020

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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?

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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