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Sue Christensen

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The Spirituality of Money

Money is activating. Like super emotionally activating. I just wrote that in a text to someone trying to get their finances and credit...

12 Days of Christmas (Carols) Day Something More: Do You Hear What I Hear? Songs of Protest

Apparently Christmas carols are peace and anti-war songs far more frequently than I could have possibly imagined just a few days ago. I...

12 Days of Christmas (Carols) Day Something

Glo-oooooooooooooooooooooo ria Is there a song more fun to sing in church? Inhale and then belt it out. It reminds me of being at a...

12 Days of Christmas (Carols) -- A Special New Year's Eve Holy Night Reflection

This is adapted from my 2021’s Christmas Eve sermon. I have adapted it for New Year’s Eve 2022. A couple of nights ago I was struggling...

12 Days of Christmas (Carols) -- "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"

I think the greatest Christmas carols are born of a brutiful concoction of anguish and hope. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “I Heard the...

12 Days of Christmas (Carols) - Day 5 "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"

There’s a mood to so many Christmas carols and songs that’s a bit complicated to name. There’s like this expectation of good times and...

12 Days of Christmas (Carols) -- Needing that "Joyful" on a Wednesday

It’s Wednesday. And it's a Wednesday of Wednesdays. A few days past the first day of Christmas. Coffee alone won’t pick me up. These days...

12 Days of Christmas (Carols) Day 3 -- While Shepherds Watched Their Flock

This carol has deeply grown on me the last few years. Ever since studying the cultural relevance of shepherds, their economic hardships,...

12 Days of Christmas (Carols) Day 2

“Away in a manger no crib for the babe…” With these soft and gentle words we are reminded that there was no room for the Holy Family as...

12 Days of Christmas (Carols): Day 1 "Hark the Herald Angels Sing"

A mere year into what some have called a conversion (or perhaps better phrased, a fresh new love of God) Charles Wesley (founder of the...

Does God Really Hate Thoughts and Prayers?

14 kids and one teacher. No, 15 kids and one teacher. No, 18 kids....killed. The news kept flashing across my computer screen during an...

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