Black Lives Matter – Take Off Your Shoes

Cupcakes, Cages, & College / DC Travelogue, Day 2

November 10, 2017 Marie Noelle Duquette

Rahim Buford spoke to us, at 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, from within his 3’ cage in the corner of the conference room. His poetry traced the

Trip to DC Travelogue / Getting There

November 7, 2017 Marie Noelle Duquette

The first installment of my travelogue as I go to Washington DC this week for the Unity Conference.

Doctor My Eyes

July 7, 2016 Marie Noelle Duquette

A year ago following cataract surgery, I set alarms on my phone to remind me to apply my eye drops at regular intervals. I used

Just Mercy

May 28, 2016 Marie Noelle Duquette

There is an urgency to this season that I did not experience in the years when I could live dangerously and put off until today what I might have done then.

Defining Moments

June 18, 2015 Marie Noelle Duquette

Dr. Rudolph Featherstone was our professor of African Theology at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in 2002. A self-proclaimed, “janitor for Jesus,” his words were as prophetic

“Ain’t it crazy? For a moment there this felt just like dying. But now I see that something inside. Is coming alive. Ain’t it crazy? … I lay me down in this sweet perfection. I am a witness to my resurrection…” From the song, Heal Me. By Melissa Etheridge, from her CD SKIN

Marie Noelle Duquette

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 was a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for twenty years. I remain 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, a partner whose love inspires my days. We share a cozy condo with our dog Nala, and cat, Picasso. 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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