Observations – Take Off Your Shoes

Shopping We Can Live With

December 21, 2019 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Ever since my youngest son married a lovely woman whose first tattoo is of the three-arrowed recycling symbol (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle), I’ve been far more

Losing Rachel Held Evans

May 4, 2019 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Grappling with the loss of Rachel Held Evans and feeling called to pick up the torch.

What is weighing on you?

March 7, 2019 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

I have carried my journals, in a large Rubbermaid container, for 30 years, through more than 20 moves across city, county, and state lines. They

New Spaces

January 18, 2019 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

This morning I signed on to my online bank account and it asked me the usual question to verify my identity: name of your favorite

Libby

January 16, 2019 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

This is a photo of Libby. Not the girl–that’s Ashley. Libby is the dog. Liberty Belle. She came to live with us at Thanksgiving, on

Epiphany Epilogue

December 31, 2018 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

One year ago this Sunday, on the day of Epiphany, we the people of King of Kings Lutheran Church in Ann Arbor chose a “star

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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 home whose windows are level with the trees in this city I love. 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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