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Song of a Caged Bird: A Sermon for Good Friday
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
I’ll preach the following sermon in just a few hours at today’s “Women’s View of the Cross”: A Service for Good Friday. (I appreciate your prayers!) This sermon takes the perspective of the maidservant in the court of the high priest, Caiphas; if you’ve been a regular here at this intersection between life and God,…
“The Stewardship of Pain”
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
It was a warm summer day in Vermont when friend and fellow saint and sinner Molly Collins introduced me to Frederick Buechner at his longtime home. That was some seven years ago. I remember at the time being struck by this well-known writer and thinker’s openness and honesty with an otherwise complete stranger. He shared…
Telling Secrets, a.k.a. “Confession”
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
Almost ten years ago, I, at the time a seminary student preparing for ministry in the Presbyterian church, confessed my sins to a Catholic priest and received the sacrament of reconciliation: I cried tears of repentance, received absolution for my sin and was then challenged to go do one good work as “penance.” I walked…
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