“When I look at your mountains, at what your fingers have made — The rocks that the sea moves about from place to place — What are human beings that you have given this to us? What are human beings that we can play on this holy ground?”
It's the messy, holy work of community.
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A Looking into the Lectionary reflection from Rev. Brian Christopher Coulter.
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