Learning As We Go
Just a year ago this week I came to Appleton for the first time to interview for the position of Interim Senior Pastor. I interviewed...
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Susan Cartmell
- May 13
- 2 min
What Would A Fourth Great Awakening Look Like?
Last year Peggy and I interviewed fifty pastors about how the pandemic challenged them and changed their churches. Some of the answers...
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Susan Cartmell
- May 13
- 2 min
What Really Happened?
Easter: One Theory About What Really Happened? Based on my understanding of the culled wisdom of John Dominic Crossen, New Testament...
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Susan Cartmell
- May 13
- 2 min
How We Pray
The hardest part of the Lord’s Prayer is the first word. Jesus bowed his head and said “Abba”. We translate this “Our Father”. But a...
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Susan Cartmell
- May 13
- 3 min
Why This Matters.
Wisconsin’s Historic Election – April 2023 I am the Senior Minister at the First Congregational Church here in Appleton. I’ve been a...
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Susan Cartmell
- May 13
- 2 min
Holy Spirit ?
What is that Bird Doing on a Stick? Maybe when you were singing the first hymn you noticed something over your head sailing through the...
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Susan Cartmell
- May 13
- 2 min
Churches are Changing But Spiritual Hunger Isn't Going Away
The elephant in the room in churches these days is the PANDEMIC. This one experience changed American churches more profoundly in our...
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Susan Cartmell
- May 13
- 1 min
Everyday Miracles
Everyday Miracles In Boston there is a convent near our house where people take a vow of poverty. They have relationships with different...
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Susan Cartmell
- May 13
- 2 min
No One's Perfect at Christmas
Nobody’s Perfect, and That’s the Point of the Christmas Story If Jesus were a guest on Finding Your Roots, it would be a very interesting...
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Susan Cartmell
- May 2, 2022
- 2 min
Don't Lose Your Humanity...Ever
A week ago, I saw two stories about hope on the same page of the newspaper. {Boston Globe, 4/23/22} Both took place in Ukraine. The...
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Susan Cartmell
- Apr 20, 2022
- 3 min
Don’t Waste Time Arguing About Easter…Just Enjoy It
There are so many Easter stories and each one in the Bible is a little different. In every gospel, the women are the protagonists and...
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Susan Cartmell
- Apr 11, 2022
- 3 min
Fully Human or Not?
Anyone who thinks Jesus was not political does not really understand what’s going on in Holy Week. When Jesus came to Jerusalem he was...
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Susan Cartmell
- Apr 4, 2022
- 3 min
Profiles in Faith
Profiles of Faith How did she do it? How did this brilliant jurist endure the insults, the interruptions, the obvious denigration from...
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Susan Cartmell
- Mar 28, 2022
- 2 min
Signs of Resilience
Outside in my garden this weekend, I found something that surprised me. When I pulled a cloth off the raised bed for vegetables I found...
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Susan Cartmell
- Mar 21, 2022
- 3 min
COVID Spiritual Fatigue: We Don't Talk About Bruno
When I stopped at a red light a little voice in the backseat asked me to play that song about Bruno. As we pulled away from the...
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Susan Cartmell
- Mar 14, 2022
- 3 min
COVID Spiritual Fatigue - Healing in Our Hands
My God, my God, enough. After two years of a pandemic that killed 6 million people in the world, now Russia invades Ukraine. (Actually ...
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Susan Cartmell
- Mar 7, 2022
- 3 min
COVID Spiritual Fatigue: Ugh... Where are You Hiding God?
Lent is never easy but this is one of the Lentier Lents we’ve had and we’ve had some bad ones recently. Two years ago, at the start of...
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Susan Cartmell
- Feb 28, 2022
- 2 min
COVID's Spiritual Fatigue: Lessons from History
One hundred years ago at the end of World War I some people in the United States wanted to punish the Germans, but not President Woodrow...
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Susan Cartmell
- Feb 14, 2022
- 2 min
COVID Spiritual Fatigue: Using Fear
I love to watch the Olympics but these winter sports can be terrifying if you really think about actual people doing them. Who sails out...
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Susan Cartmell
- Feb 7, 2022
- 2 min
COVID Spiritual Fatigue - Finding Hope
Last year we bought tickets for the Van Gogh exhibit touring the country. It called to us. Apparently, the art isn’t set in frames on a...
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