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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

August 22, 2010: Confession

August 22, 2010 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Confession is good for the soul…so the saying goes. People of faith hold fast to this concept, and indeed, if you’ve ever confessed a wrong

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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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