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The news on climate change isn’t all dismal. The editors on California’s remarkable environmental initiatives: http://ow.ly/1Mi4308xakx 

"If you want to know what refugee resettlement is really like, spend some time with refugees." From Amy Frykholm. http://ow.ly/S6Hw308xWRB 

“Sitting with death means facing it.” @thejerabrown reviews @KerryEganSC: http://ow.ly/tTXB308x8FF 

"I'd choose New Jersey over LA anytime." @kathrynreklis on #LALALAND & #PATERSON: http://ow.ly/h5kq308vr5B 

“If I can give up half-in-half in my coffee, I can do practically anything.” @kwpershey on fasting and the #Whole30. http://ow.ly/OKDi308vBH5 

New $14 million fund through @sacred_places and @SavingPlaces supports historic churches. From Celeste Kennel-Shank. http://ow.ly/y1EA308uCr5 

“This morning’s mountains, windy, wet…are bleating from the lambs first shorn” -- poem by John Paul McKinney: http://ow.ly/AimL308qDY0 

“When God said, ‘Let there be light,’ / God meant, ‘don’t be scared of the explosion.” -- poem by Hillary Kobernick: http://ow.ly/6ik8308qDsV 

Jesus gives his initial sermon -- #lectionary post by @thesoulstepford: http://ow.ly/EJco308okR3 

From @PeterMarty: "My friend is afflicted with demons—fears of microbial infection." http://ow.ly/DcRQ308pRyk 

What do a self-help guru and Simone Weil have in common? Amy Frykholm reviews Cal Newport: http://ow.ly/mnv3308otRs 

From Sam Wells: Jesus makes us “icons of the beauty of God": http://ow.ly/NZ1l308ljcr 

Peril & hope: Ragan Sutterfield reviews books about water by @judithdschwartz and @MichaelEWebber: http://ow.ly/dbsf308iRJv 

“…the infant Christ, dressed as a small man, fully clothed, / on his mother’s knee.” -- poem by @barbaracrookerhttp://ow.ly/Yp3Z308iPzs

@ChristianCent the trans christian faith article hit home really hard, thanks for that! I really needed to hear those stories right now!!

. @Isaacsvillegas's ICU visit to a parishioner who prayed weekly for anyone stuck where they didn’t want to be: http://ow.ly/n8IS308iPaI 

“Martha knows the kitchen turned temple, / The pot of stew a thurible…” -- poem by @EmroseProctor: http://ow.ly/ziOA308c2DR 

"God’s call is often related to some shift that requires a strong witness"-- #lectionary column by @thesoulstepford: http://ow.ly/nY7B307X9O3 

“. . . the still, small voice broke open / like a bulb beneath the earth” -- poem by Julie Moore: http://ow.ly/eAkX308c25d 

Richard Kauffman on Trump & the call to moral resistance: http://ow.ly/JEg0308aLk8