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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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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Susan Cartmell
Jan 31, 20223 min read
COVID Spiritual Fatigue: Handling our Fear
The Bible says, “Be not Afraid” but who are we kidding? We are all afraid. We just try to hide it. “Don’t let them know you are afraid.” ...
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Susan Cartmell
Jan 24, 20222 min read
Love will Guide Us...Through this Hard Night
I have spent the last few months talking to pastors and rabbis about how they have led their churches and synagogues through this...
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Susan Cartmell
Jan 18, 20223 min read
We all have scars; some are visible.
Last summer I was cleaning my shed when I tripped on my patio and fell down hard. At the time, I had been holding clay pots that and they...
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Susan Cartmell
Jan 10, 20222 min read
COVID's Spiritual Fatigue
COVID’s Spiritual Fatigue When you look up “COVID fatigue” online you discover that it is the symptom of this pandemic that causes a dull...
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Susan Cartmell
Dec 21, 20212 min read
Searching for the Light
Solstice and Christmas in a Pandemic 2021 – Solstice is a day I always wait for; it’s a turning point, a hinge moment, each year. The...
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Susan Cartmell
Dec 20, 20213 min read
Leaning into the Light
2021 When you stand in this drafty season of Advent, the longer you try to stay your course the more the wind picks up – pulling you in...
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Susan Cartmell
Feb 17, 20213 min read
Keeping it Real in Lent
I know Lent starts today but this Lent is different. It comes after a year of penitence and self-examination. It is hard to find the...
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Susan Cartmell
Sep 22, 20202 min read
Preaching in a Pandemic
With the arrival of the coronavirus, COVID 19, our society has changed completely; nowhere has that change been more powerfully felt than...
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