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May 20, 2014 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Sister Michelle is my colleague and friend here in Melbourne. She grew up in a family of 8, the daughter of missionaries, in Kenya. Today, she

Eighteen

March 19, 2013 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

What I’ve Learned is a feature in Esquire magazine that highlights interviews in a unique format. A lifelong subscriber, I’ve read What I’ve Learned by

News

March 4, 2013 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

A 93-Year-Old Paperboy, Still Making the Rounds – NYTimes.com. Today our hats off to Newt Wallace, who has delivered the daily newspaper on his route

Sky

October 25, 2012 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

I took Sam for a ride in the pony yesterday. Sam is 3 years old. The first time I met him was at his great-grandparents

In Her Eyes

June 6, 2012 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Recently I was sitting outside Smith’s Diner on North High Street in my Mustang, top down, enjoying the hot day turning to cool dusk. I looked up

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

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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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