February 21, 2024 • 25 mins
Join Rev. Bri-anne as she talks about God changing their mind, Rev. Bri-anne changing her own mind, and the change of mind and heart of a certain media pundit.
Scripture: Genesis 9:8-17 God Covenants with Noah and all of creation after the flood.
Music: Proteus - Atonement
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Epiphany: A Christian's Change of Heart & Mind over Same-Sex Marriage by Michael Coren
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am Reverend Breanne Swan, and this is Sermons from
the East End for Tuesday,February 20th, 2024. Hello, and
(00:26):
welcome back after a much longerabsence than I had ever
intended. I may not have beenpublishing our sermons via
various podcasting platforms,but we have been very, very
busy, particularly in ourcommunity and justice ministries
at East End United. Ofparticular note, this fall, East
End United hosted 30 asylumseekers in the basement of our
(00:49):
Eastminster campus, 247. Thiswas a monumental effort, and we
could never have done it withoutthe help of our neighbors in the
East End of Toronto, our UnitedChurch friends, as well as our
ecumenical and interfaithpartners.
Right now, we find ourselveswithin the 1st week of Lent, a
(01:14):
time to reflect on those ways wefind ourselves separated from
god, as well as what we need tochange in our lives in order to
move towards reconciliation withthe divine. We begin our Lenten
journey with an old, familiarstory, or at least the end of an
old familiar story (01:36):
God sending the rainbow and making a
covenant with Noah. Genesischapter 9 verses 8 through 17,
from the new revised standardversion. Then God said to Noah
(02:03):
and to his sons with him, as forme, I am establishing my
covenant with you and yourdescendants after you, and with
every living creature that iswith you, the birds, the
domestic animals, and everyanimal of the earth with you, as
many as came on the ark. Iestablish my covenant with you
(02:23):
that never again shall all fleshbe cut off by the waters of a
flood, and never again shallthere be a flood to destroy the
Earth.
God said, this is the sign ofthe covenant that I make between
me and you and every livingcreature that is with you, for
all future generations. I haveset my bow in the clouds, and it
(02:47):
shall be a sign of the covenantbetween me and the earth. When I
bring clouds over the earth andthe bow is seen in the clouds, I
will remember my covenant thatis between me and you, and every
living creature of all flesh,and the waters shall never again
become a flood to destroy allflesh. When the bow is in the
(03:10):
clouds, I will see it, andremember the everlasting
covenant between God and everyliving creature of all flesh
that is on the earth. God saidto Noah, this is the sign of the
covenant that I have establishedbetween me and all flesh that is
(03:31):
on the earth.
For anybody who has been hangingaround a church for any amount
(03:51):
of time, As I said earlier, thisis a familiar story. The
conclusion of the story of Noahand the ark is about as Sunday
school greatest hits as one canget. Noah and the Ark is an old,
old myth, based upon other old,old myths coming out of
(04:15):
Mesopotamia. And this particularflood story emerged in its
current form approximately 5 anda half centuries before the
birth of Christ. God sending thewaters, leading to the utter
decimation of all fleshlycreation was an incredibly
violent act.
(04:36):
And I like to think I like tothink that this covenant is God
changing their mind. Thatperhaps God eventually came to
the conclusion that killingeverything and everybody just
caused them way too much sorrowand heartbreak, and that God's
(04:57):
own heart was softened enough toconsider that there must be
another way. To be clear,describing the story as myth is
not synonymous with saying it isuntrue because this story has
many truths. We can take thisstory seriously without taking
(05:21):
it literally. And eventuallyclaimed by Christians, this
story has been taken very, veryseriously, And it is because of
this story that for manygenerations, the rainbow has
been a symbol of covenant andpromise, Specifically, God's
(05:41):
promise to care for and lookafter all of us, and to never
again be so freaking angry thatthey decide to kill everybody
and everything withoutdiscretion.
To never again choose this levelof violence against their
people. And it is also why,especially growing up as a child
(06:07):
in the nineties, that churcheshad rainbows plastered all over
the place. The United Church wasall about the rainbows, and it
still is in most places allabout the rainbows, but perhaps
for different reasons, which Iwill get into in a little while.
(06:31):
But these rainbows in the churchof my youth symbolized covenant
and promise. My very favoritepicture of myself as a child,
which I will absolutely post inthe show notes because I just
love it so much, was taken whenI was 3 years old.
I was at some sort of fair withmy aunt and my mother, and my
(06:52):
aunt took me to get my facepainted. And in the photo, I'm
sitting beside her with a dovepainted on my forehead and 2
rainbows, 1 on each cheek. I wastoo young to remember this day,
but I am told that I refused towash my face before going to bed
because I wanted to keep theserainbows forever. These rainbows
(07:18):
were a key feature of my Sundayschool experience. Now a mostly
unrelated fixture in my lifegrowing up was the eerie
landscape of conservative talkradio.
And I can honestly say that Inever in my life thought that I
would be speaking about these 2very different experiences in
(07:41):
the same reflection, but here weare. My father always had talk 6
40 and CFRB playing as he wasdriving. And there are a couple
of people I felt like Ipractically knew from listening
to them and their voices somuch. One of these people was
(08:04):
Bill Carroll and the other wasMichael Coran. Now for those of
you who might not know whoMichael Coran is, he was
arguably one of the mostrecognized commentators,
speakers, and columnists withinCatholic and conservative media
in Canada.
(08:25):
My father listened to MichaelKoren on the radio, but he also
watched his show every singlenight on Crossroads Television
station. It's worth noting thatmy father was not a Christian
nor did he claim to have anyspiritual identity whatsoever.
But Michael Corin said all thethings my dad felt about the
(08:47):
world, minus the God part. Coranalso represented social
conservatives in Canadian media,and those are my father's
people. I always felt Corin wasmore dangerous than people like,
say, Tucker Carlson or EzraLevant because he was so well
(09:08):
spoken.
He seemed so reasonable, and asfar as I can remember, never
personally attacked anybody, Sohe was harder to dismiss. And it
was difficult for me toreconcile watching this guy who
seemed like he'd be perfectlylovely in person with the things
(09:29):
he was saying, because they werejust so hurtful. One of Michael
Koren's positions that Idisagreed with most vehemently
and believe me, I'd watched alot of Michael Coran, so I had a
lot of material to work with,was his stance on same sex
marriage. Korn was a member ofthe Catholic church and towed
(09:53):
his denomination's party linewhen it came to LGBTQ justice
issues. But again, he nevercalled anybody names.
He was mostly polite yet veryfirm. But by his own account in
more recent years, he emboldenedthose who were perhaps not as
restrained to be more outwardwith their hatred. He wrote, he
(10:19):
spoke, and people took his wordsand ran with them. He was a
writer, a critic, and with thatpen, he prophesied to a
demographic yearning for theworld to return to as they
believed it once had been. Butafter moving out of my family
home when I was 18, I had a lotmore control over whose voice I
(10:43):
listened to on the radio.
And I was too poor for atelevision or cable, so that
took care of that. But even if Ihad a television, I wouldn't
have been watching MichaelCorran. So every so often, he
would pop up in the news and Iwould shake my head a bit, and
then I would forget about himagain. Until a couple of years
(11:06):
ago, when I saw a newspaperheadline that said that Michael
Coran had well, he changed hismind. So what happened?
Well, this is his explanation inhis own words. He says, I am a
(11:31):
person of faith. I am aChristian, and I was
increasingly uncomfortable withclaiming to follow a man who was
the personification of love,justice, and forgiveness.
Tolerance, including notexcluding, never judging and
reconciling that with a stance Ihad, which was pretty
(11:54):
judgmental. And I don't thinkthat I was close to a breakdown,
but I wasn't comfortable in myown skin.
And it got to the point where Iknew I had to make a decision.
There is much more to Mr.Coran's story of changing his
(12:15):
mind, which he details in hisbook called Epiphany. And after
so many years of feeling hurtand frustration and even anger
about so much of what this manhad to say, I actually found
myself standing in my kitchen,waving his book around in the
air and moaning to my husband,oh my goodness, I cannot believe
(12:39):
I am developing a soft spot forMichael Coran. My heart was
softened to this man and hisjourney.
And because as a writer andpundit, he was the voice of so
much of the attitudes I hadinternalized and experienced as
(13:00):
harmful while growing up,Corin's change of heart and my
resulting change of heart hasbeen a very powerful and moving
experience. His book initiatedfor me a journey of
understanding folks who thoughtand spoke like my father just a
(13:20):
little bit better. So then Ifind myself coming back to the
rainbow, a rainbow of covenantsand promise. And now, also a
symbol of affirmation for thoseof us in our community who are
queer. It's interesting to methat the origins of the pride
(13:42):
flag have nothing to do withGod's promise to Noah.
It was created separately by anindividual artist with each
color stripe representing adifferent aspect of human
experience. And yet, here weare, a rainbow of covenant, a
rainbow of affirmation. And thenI find myself hoping that
(14:06):
responsibility can be added intothe mix. When God spoke to Noah
and his family, promising to allof creation that never again
would God send a flood todestroy everything, I'd like to
think that covenant was a twoway exchange. And that perhaps
humanity's responsibility wasto, well, try harder, lest we
(14:33):
end up drenched to the bone, notthrough floodwaters, but
drowning within our own sea ofbiases.
Try harder to live good anddecent lives, to live with
respect in creation, to love andserve others. These all seem
(14:53):
like really good themes as wejourney into the Lenten season.
Journeys of change are oftenlonely, wild, and usually longer
than 40 days. There arequestions of identity, safety,
security, place in community. Inthe Christian narrative, God
(15:20):
ultimately decides to enter intohumanity with us through Jesus.
After we've continued toblunder, perhaps God realizes
some of us are the kind oflearners for whom simply telling
us how to live isn't enough. Weneed to be shown. Again and
(15:40):
again, we need to be shown bysomebody in whom we can see
ourselves and see our ownpotential. For his part, Koren
has taken it upon himself toreach out to LGBTQ plus rights
groups and apologize. Takingresponsibility to sit down with
individuals and say, I am sorrythat my words have hurt you.
(16:07):
I am sorry that I have hurt you.And the reverend Michael Korn is
now an Anglican priest inBurlington and a Christian
socialist. So there you go. Ihave found my heart even more
(16:29):
softened after watching MichaelCoran being so open and
unreserved about his coming toterms with the words he has said
and the people he has affected.And with all of this deeply
embedded into my mind and movingmy heart and seeing how the
Reverend Koren has takenresponsibility to educate and
(16:50):
make amends, I feel like I havemy own responsibility now to
examine my relationships to thepeople with whom I do not agree
and consistently find myself atodds.
These are often the people I wasclosest to in my formative
years, and with them work moretowards dialogue than simply
(17:15):
dismissal. Because if theReverend Coran can do it, maybe
I can step down from my soapboxfor a while and do it too. God
had a change of heart. MichaelKoren had a change of heart and
even I had a change of heartbecause once again, here I am
(17:38):
talking about Michael Coran in away my teenage self would never
have imagined in a 1000000years, I would be. So I want to
leave the last words of thisreflection with Michael Koren
because as we move even closertowards Jerusalem, where we will
(17:58):
hear about everybody from thedisciples, to the religious
leadership, to the government,and to the crowds getting it so
very wrong.
It's nice to be reminded thatthere is always a way home. My
(18:19):
interest as a Christian, saysCoran, and particularly one who
got things wrong for so long, isalways going to be truth, love,
compassion, and justice. May itbe so. Amen. Free.
(22:15):
To make your own choices and beredeemed. East End United
Regional Ministry is committedto supporting our neighbors
throughout the east end ofToronto. We run a weekly food
(22:39):
bank market out of our GlenRoads campus on Gerrard Street,
as well as out of the cold fromour Eastminster campus on
Danforth Avenue. We activelysupport refugees and asylum
seekers, and are public,intentional, and explicit of our
affirmation and advocacy for 2spirited and LGBTQIA plus
(22:59):
peoples. We gather for worshipon-site and online Sunday
mornings at our Eastminstercampus, and Thursday evenings at
our Glen Robes campus.
We are a community working tofigure out how to embody the
words of Cornel West, who saidjustice is what love looks like
in public. We don't always getit right, but we are committed
(23:26):
to working for progress even aswe acknowledge that we are a
work in progress. If any of thissounds interesting, we would
love to meet you. Feel free tosend me, Reverend Breanne, an
email, bswan@eastendunited.ca. Iwould love to connect over
(23:48):
coffee, either in person oronline.
Thank you for listening to thisweek's episode. We will be back
(24:11):
next week as we wonder aboutJesus' call to take up your
cross. It's a little bitcomplicated. So until then, take
care of yourselves and eachother. We'll be back soon.
(24:37):
East End United RegionalMinistry is an affirming
community of faith within TheUnited Church of Canada. You can
learn more about our community,including our many outreach
programs, by going towww.eastandunited.
I am Reverend Breanne Swan, and this is Sermons from
the East End for Tuesday,February 20th, 2024. Hello, and
(00:26):
welcome back after a much longerabsence than I had ever
intended. I may not have beenpublishing our sermons via
various podcasting platforms,but we have been very, very
busy, particularly in ourcommunity and justice ministries
at East End United. Ofparticular note, this fall, East
End United hosted 30 asylumseekers in the basement of our
(00:49):
Eastminster campus, 247. Thiswas a monumental effort, and we
could never have done it withoutthe help of our neighbors in the
East End of Toronto, our UnitedChurch friends, as well as our
ecumenical and interfaithpartners.
Right now, we find ourselveswithin the 1st week of Lent, a
(01:14):
time to reflect on those ways wefind ourselves separated from
god, as well as what we need tochange in our lives in order to
move towards reconciliation withthe divine. We begin our Lenten
journey with an old, familiarstory, or at least the end of an
old familiar story (01:36):
God sending the rainbow and making a
covenant with Noah. Genesischapter 9 verses 8 through 17,
from the new revised standardversion. Then God said to Noah
(02:03):
and to his sons with him, as forme, I am establishing my
covenant with you and yourdescendants after you, and with
every living creature that iswith you, the birds, the
domestic animals, and everyanimal of the earth with you, as
many as came on the ark. Iestablish my covenant with you
(02:23):
that never again shall all fleshbe cut off by the waters of a
flood, and never again shallthere be a flood to destroy the
Earth.
God said, this is the sign ofthe covenant that I make between
me and you and every livingcreature that is with you, for
all future generations. I haveset my bow in the clouds, and it
(02:47):
shall be a sign of the covenantbetween me and the earth. When I
bring clouds over the earth andthe bow is seen in the clouds, I
will remember my covenant thatis between me and you, and every
living creature of all flesh,and the waters shall never again
become a flood to destroy allflesh. When the bow is in the
(03:10):
clouds, I will see it, andremember the everlasting
covenant between God and everyliving creature of all flesh
that is on the earth. God saidto Noah, this is the sign of the
covenant that I have establishedbetween me and all flesh that is
(03:31):
on the earth.
For anybody who has been hangingaround a church for any amount
(03:51):
of time, As I said earlier, thisis a familiar story. The
conclusion of the story of Noahand the ark is about as Sunday
school greatest hits as one canget. Noah and the Ark is an old,
old myth, based upon other old,old myths coming out of
(04:15):
Mesopotamia. And this particularflood story emerged in its
current form approximately 5 anda half centuries before the
birth of Christ. God sending thewaters, leading to the utter
decimation of all fleshlycreation was an incredibly
violent act.
(04:36):
And I like to think I like tothink that this covenant is God
changing their mind. Thatperhaps God eventually came to
the conclusion that killingeverything and everybody just
caused them way too much sorrowand heartbreak, and that God's
(04:57):
own heart was softened enough toconsider that there must be
another way. To be clear,describing the story as myth is
not synonymous with saying it isuntrue because this story has
many truths. We can take thisstory seriously without taking
(05:21):
it literally. And eventuallyclaimed by Christians, this
story has been taken very, veryseriously, And it is because of
this story that for manygenerations, the rainbow has
been a symbol of covenant andpromise, Specifically, God's
(05:41):
promise to care for and lookafter all of us, and to never
again be so freaking angry thatthey decide to kill everybody
and everything withoutdiscretion.
To never again choose this levelof violence against their
people. And it is also why,especially growing up as a child
(06:07):
in the nineties, that churcheshad rainbows plastered all over
the place. The United Church wasall about the rainbows, and it
still is in most places allabout the rainbows, but perhaps
for different reasons, which Iwill get into in a little while.
(06:31):
But these rainbows in the churchof my youth symbolized covenant
and promise. My very favoritepicture of myself as a child,
which I will absolutely post inthe show notes because I just
love it so much, was taken whenI was 3 years old.
I was at some sort of fair withmy aunt and my mother, and my
(06:52):
aunt took me to get my facepainted. And in the photo, I'm
sitting beside her with a dovepainted on my forehead and 2
rainbows, 1 on each cheek. I wastoo young to remember this day,
but I am told that I refused towash my face before going to bed
because I wanted to keep theserainbows forever. These rainbows
(07:18):
were a key feature of my Sundayschool experience. Now a mostly
unrelated fixture in my lifegrowing up was the eerie
landscape of conservative talkradio.
And I can honestly say that Inever in my life thought that I
would be speaking about these 2very different experiences in
(07:41):
the same reflection, but here weare. My father always had talk 6
40 and CFRB playing as he wasdriving. And there are a couple
of people I felt like Ipractically knew from listening
to them and their voices somuch. One of these people was
(08:04):
Bill Carroll and the other wasMichael Coran. Now for those of
you who might not know whoMichael Coran is, he was
arguably one of the mostrecognized commentators,
speakers, and columnists withinCatholic and conservative media
in Canada.
(08:25):
My father listened to MichaelKoren on the radio, but he also
watched his show every singlenight on Crossroads Television
station. It's worth noting thatmy father was not a Christian
nor did he claim to have anyspiritual identity whatsoever.
But Michael Corin said all thethings my dad felt about the
(08:47):
world, minus the God part. Coranalso represented social
conservatives in Canadian media,and those are my father's
people. I always felt Corin wasmore dangerous than people like,
say, Tucker Carlson or EzraLevant because he was so well
(09:08):
spoken.
He seemed so reasonable, and asfar as I can remember, never
personally attacked anybody, Sohe was harder to dismiss. And it
was difficult for me toreconcile watching this guy who
seemed like he'd be perfectlylovely in person with the things
(09:29):
he was saying, because they werejust so hurtful. One of Michael
Koren's positions that Idisagreed with most vehemently
and believe me, I'd watched alot of Michael Coran, so I had a
lot of material to work with,was his stance on same sex
marriage. Korn was a member ofthe Catholic church and towed
(09:53):
his denomination's party linewhen it came to LGBTQ justice
issues. But again, he nevercalled anybody names.
He was mostly polite yet veryfirm. But by his own account in
more recent years, he emboldenedthose who were perhaps not as
restrained to be more outwardwith their hatred. He wrote, he
(10:19):
spoke, and people took his wordsand ran with them. He was a
writer, a critic, and with thatpen, he prophesied to a
demographic yearning for theworld to return to as they
believed it once had been. Butafter moving out of my family
home when I was 18, I had a lotmore control over whose voice I
(10:43):
listened to on the radio.
And I was too poor for atelevision or cable, so that
took care of that. But even if Ihad a television, I wouldn't
have been watching MichaelCorran. So every so often, he
would pop up in the news and Iwould shake my head a bit, and
then I would forget about himagain. Until a couple of years
(11:06):
ago, when I saw a newspaperheadline that said that Michael
Coran had well, he changed hismind. So what happened?
Well, this is his explanation inhis own words. He says, I am a
(11:31):
person of faith. I am aChristian, and I was
increasingly uncomfortable withclaiming to follow a man who was
the personification of love,justice, and forgiveness.
Tolerance, including notexcluding, never judging and
reconciling that with a stance Ihad, which was pretty
(11:54):
judgmental. And I don't thinkthat I was close to a breakdown,
but I wasn't comfortable in myown skin.
And it got to the point where Iknew I had to make a decision.
There is much more to Mr.Coran's story of changing his
(12:15):
mind, which he details in hisbook called Epiphany. And after
so many years of feeling hurtand frustration and even anger
about so much of what this manhad to say, I actually found
myself standing in my kitchen,waving his book around in the
air and moaning to my husband,oh my goodness, I cannot believe
(12:39):
I am developing a soft spot forMichael Coran. My heart was
softened to this man and hisjourney.
And because as a writer andpundit, he was the voice of so
much of the attitudes I hadinternalized and experienced as
(13:00):
harmful while growing up,Corin's change of heart and my
resulting change of heart hasbeen a very powerful and moving
experience. His book initiatedfor me a journey of
understanding folks who thoughtand spoke like my father just a
(13:20):
little bit better. So then Ifind myself coming back to the
rainbow, a rainbow of covenantsand promise. And now, also a
symbol of affirmation for thoseof us in our community who are
queer. It's interesting to methat the origins of the pride
(13:42):
flag have nothing to do withGod's promise to Noah.
It was created separately by anindividual artist with each
color stripe representing adifferent aspect of human
experience. And yet, here weare, a rainbow of covenant, a
rainbow of affirmation. And thenI find myself hoping that
(14:06):
responsibility can be added intothe mix. When God spoke to Noah
and his family, promising to allof creation that never again
would God send a flood todestroy everything, I'd like to
think that covenant was a twoway exchange. And that perhaps
humanity's responsibility wasto, well, try harder, lest we
(14:33):
end up drenched to the bone, notthrough floodwaters, but
drowning within our own sea ofbiases.
Try harder to live good anddecent lives, to live with
respect in creation, to love andserve others. These all seem
(14:53):
like really good themes as wejourney into the Lenten season.
Journeys of change are oftenlonely, wild, and usually longer
than 40 days. There arequestions of identity, safety,
security, place in community. Inthe Christian narrative, God
(15:20):
ultimately decides to enter intohumanity with us through Jesus.
After we've continued toblunder, perhaps God realizes
some of us are the kind oflearners for whom simply telling
us how to live isn't enough. Weneed to be shown. Again and
(15:40):
again, we need to be shown bysomebody in whom we can see
ourselves and see our ownpotential. For his part, Koren
has taken it upon himself toreach out to LGBTQ plus rights
groups and apologize. Takingresponsibility to sit down with
individuals and say, I am sorrythat my words have hurt you.
(16:07):
I am sorry that I have hurt you.And the reverend Michael Korn is
now an Anglican priest inBurlington and a Christian
socialist. So there you go. Ihave found my heart even more
(16:29):
softened after watching MichaelCoran being so open and
unreserved about his coming toterms with the words he has said
and the people he has affected.And with all of this deeply
embedded into my mind and movingmy heart and seeing how the
Reverend Koren has takenresponsibility to educate and
(16:50):
make amends, I feel like I havemy own responsibility now to
examine my relationships to thepeople with whom I do not agree
and consistently find myself atodds.
These are often the people I wasclosest to in my formative
years, and with them work moretowards dialogue than simply
(17:15):
dismissal. Because if theReverend Coran can do it, maybe
I can step down from my soapboxfor a while and do it too. God
had a change of heart. MichaelKoren had a change of heart and
even I had a change of heartbecause once again, here I am
(17:38):
talking about Michael Coran in away my teenage self would never
have imagined in a 1000000years, I would be. So I want to
leave the last words of thisreflection with Michael Koren
because as we move even closertowards Jerusalem, where we will
(17:58):
hear about everybody from thedisciples, to the religious
leadership, to the government,and to the crowds getting it so
very wrong.
It's nice to be reminded thatthere is always a way home. My
(18:19):
interest as a Christian, saysCoran, and particularly one who
got things wrong for so long, isalways going to be truth, love,
compassion, and justice. May itbe so. Amen. Free.
(22:15):
To make your own choices and beredeemed. East End United
Regional Ministry is committedto supporting our neighbors
throughout the east end ofToronto. We run a weekly food
(22:39):
bank market out of our GlenRoads campus on Gerrard Street,
as well as out of the cold fromour Eastminster campus on
Danforth Avenue. We activelysupport refugees and asylum
seekers, and are public,intentional, and explicit of our
affirmation and advocacy for 2spirited and LGBTQIA plus
(22:59):
peoples. We gather for worshipon-site and online Sunday
mornings at our Eastminstercampus, and Thursday evenings at
our Glen Robes campus.
We are a community working tofigure out how to embody the
words of Cornel West, who saidjustice is what love looks like
in public. We don't always getit right, but we are committed
(23:26):
to working for progress even aswe acknowledge that we are a
work in progress. If any of thissounds interesting, we would
love to meet you. Feel free tosend me, Reverend Breanne, an
email, bswan@eastendunited.ca. Iwould love to connect over
(23:48):
coffee, either in person oronline.
Thank you for listening to thisweek's episode. We will be back
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next week as we wonder aboutJesus' call to take up your
cross. It's a little bitcomplicated. So until then, take
care of yourselves and eachother. We'll be back soon.
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community of faith within TheUnited Church of Canada. You can
learn more about our community,including our many outreach
programs, by going towww.eastandunited.
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