We The PeopleTake Off Your Shoes

When and Who and Where

January 23, 2019 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

I’ve spent most of my adult life learning about periods of history that resulted in the genocide, torture, or oppression of entire groups of people:

If you don’t know, now you know

June 16, 2018 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

At the bottom of this article is a list of all the faith leaders and institutions who are publicly opposing the zero tolerance immigration policy and the use of scripture to justify it.

The Fuel is Fear

April 9, 2018 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

In David Joy’s eloquent essay, “Gun Culture Is My Culture. And I Fear What It has Become[i],” he writes: “As sad as it is to

Allegiance Pledging

January 30, 2018 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

The Pledge of Allegiance has been in the news a lot lately. People are arguing over whether or not the Democrats are being disrespectful by

Hijacking Trumped

October 17, 2017 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

I was reading a story from the BBC News, about the unholy alliance between the United States President and “Evangelicals.” You can read the story here. If

Congress: The Time is Now

October 12, 2017 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

If you asked the people of Santa Rosa–When they knew it was time to abandon their homes and escape the flames bearing down on their

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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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