February 2011 – Take Off Your Shoes

Hosanna!

February 27, 2011 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

“I’m gonna build me a chapel!” –Homer Smith, Lillies of the Field, 1963

Secret O’ Life according to Jesus and James

February 26, 2011 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

YouTube – James Taylor – Secret O’ Life (With lyrics). My friend Paula posted this on Facebook as I was working on tomorrow’s sermon on

I’d love to change the world…

February 24, 2011 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

YouTube – Eric Clapton/Change the world. I am reading Mary Pipher’s latest book: Writing To Change The World. Yesterday I wrote about the classic rock

Stairway to Heaven

February 23, 2011 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

2011 marks the 40th anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven, King of Kings Lutheran, Ann Arbor

I notice connections between people, events, movies, music, writings, the spoken word, that seem independent of one another. I write and speak about these connections because I have been created for this work and it has the potential to draw people together and transform rough places into plains of peace. I am a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; a writer whose muse is active and insistent; a lover of new experiences; a dreamer of old. I am fueled by both music and silence; I appreciate truths that can only be conveyed in whispers, if in any language at all. I have more friends than I deserve, a big fat french family I adore, and a lovely apartment with a fireplace in front of which I am now leading virtual worship. My most palpable experience of God's presence took place in a chapel in Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. In that place, where every great world religion was depicted by both name and symbol, a miracle took shape in 2005 that continues to inform my faith today. I believe the key to world peace is our willingness to understand one another and take the risks required to do that. My two sons are some of God's finest work; they are a blessing to me and to the world. I thank God for every single day of this wonder we know as life. And I thank you, for stopping by to take off your shoes and step into the shoes of those whose stories I am privileged to tell.

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