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“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God ...

One of my dearest friends, a retired teacher of German descent, tutors children at an urban school. Once, while working on reading with an 8-year-old African American child, they shared a book about ...

Last week, I wrote on Love Never Fails. I am continuing to review and meditate on chapter 13 of 1 Corinthians, which includes that thought in verse 8. I want to delve a little deeper into this vast ...

Sunday, May 5, is the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Mass readings: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-4; 1 John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17. In today’s Gospel, Jesus cuts right through the modern ...

Rev S. Brae Adams is the pastor of United Congregational Church in Worcester. “How, then, shall we live?” This was a question posed frequently by a beloved Seminary professor as we examined scripture ...

Find today’s readings here. “This I command you: Love one another.” What could be simpler? It can seem like “Love one another” should be something to which everyone can give agreement, a point of ...

This week’s response to Psalm 103 calls attention to a familiar theme of the Bible, “love.” “Love one another as I have loved you.” Such a claim affords great comfort and consolation in these times.

“A new command I give you: Love one another.” Jesus at the Last Supper – Gospel of John. Jesus of Nazareth challenged his culture’s status quo throughout his three-year ministry. Not only did he show ...

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A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — Jesus Christ J. Roehl Wright is my great uncle (i.e. my grandma’s little brother). He ...