Observations – Take Off Your Shoes

I Never wanted to say goodbye

February 24, 2021 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

by Julie Martin Hutson I never wanted to pray goodbye To step away from that place where I had loved long And been loved, To

Let Your Heart Be

February 23, 2021 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

by Laura Martin This poem was written to those who grieve…. Who knows its places and folds, its invitations and its breaking, its memory and

Beginnings

February 19, 2021 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

A collaborative project of prayers specifically written by women during 2021, that address the situations we find ourselves in at this moment of history.

Crazy Wisdom Interview

January 29, 2021 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

I was recently interviewed by Crazy Wisdom in Ann Arbor about what I had observed as a faith leader during the past year, given the

touchstones lacking touch

October 26, 2020 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

“Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into

Thanks Hanks

April 5, 2020 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Today, Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson arrived home to the United States after recovering from the corona virus in Australia. Thanks be to

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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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