Monthly Archives: January 2003

Laughing at the Devil by David R. McMahill

January, 2003 –

After serving twenty-five years in parish ministry, Dave was called as minister for the Eastern Association, Minnesota Conference UCC, in 1995.
I have lived with aggressive Crohn’s Disease all my adult life. Some manage to control it without surgery and achieve long periods of remission from active symptoms. Others lose their entire intestinal track and […]

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On Coming Home to Myself - Mitzi N. Eilts

January, 2003 –

Mitzi Eilts is national coordinator for the UCC Coalition for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender Concerns.
I’m almost fifty years old and have been female my whole life. For most of my adult life I’ve been at home (spiritually and emotionally) with the facts that my identity is not heterosexual and my life partner is another […]

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Challenge by Jeanne Tyler

January, 2003 –

Jeanne Tyler co-chairs the UCCDM board and is co-pastor of Saint Paul UCC, Lincoln,
Nebraska
He told them another parable: “The [realm of God] is like yeast which a woman took and . . . .” - Matthew 13:33
Slowly bubbling along with warm water and sugar, yeast grows as it rises into dough and bakes into bread. […]

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