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Sanctuary: Building Holy Space
The world that we currently live in is filled with opportunities to build holy space. Recently, a handshake took place between a Palestinian and an Israeli leader. Those kinds of handshakes are impossible to come by, we are told, in … Continue reading
Sanctuary: Separating the Separate
“Separation” comes from a Latin word that means “a severing.” For millenia, human beings have recognized sacred spaces as places for the most persecuted among them to find refuge. These places were almost always considered sacred to some deity. They … Continue reading
Memorial Day – Sanctuary: Some Gave All
In the sanctuary of my heart this Memorial Day morning, I hold the many thousands of soldiers who have sacrificed their lives in service to this nation. Whether or not you support the military, or our government’s intervention in (or, … Continue reading
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Sanctuary: Holy Places
A sanctuarium was once a place where royalty kept things that were precious to him or her. Later, it was a place for keeping objects sacred to a religion. Later still, it came to define a specific part of a church where … Continue reading
Sanctuary: Of the Heart
“I wandered alone in a strange land, And Life seemed so dark and drear, When the sound of a voice seemed to call me And brought to my mind a mem’ry dear; It told of the Joy and the Gladness … Continue reading
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