
A Racial Reality Check
Susan Hines-Brigger
June 30, 2023
FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a middle-aged, White woman who lives in a predominantly White area. I am privileged in ways that I probably don’t even comprehend. As a mom, I have never had to have “the talk” with my son ...
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Faith and Family: Wedding at Cana
Susan Hines-Brigger
January 16, 2019
READ JN 2:1-11 There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, ...
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Faith and Family: The Waters of Baptism
Susan Hines-Brigger
January 9, 2019
READ LK 3:15-16, 21-22 The people were filled with expectation, and all were asking in their hearts whether John might be the Christ. John answered them all, saying, "I am baptizing you with water, but one mightier than I is ...
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Faith and Family: We Three Kings
Susan Hines-Brigger
January 2, 2019
READ MT 2:1-12 When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, "Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star at its ...
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Faith and Family: Jesus in the Temple
Susan Hines-Brigger
December 26, 2018
READ LK 2:41-52 Each year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom. After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the ...
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Faith and Family: Mary and Elizabeth
Susan Hines-Brigger
December 19, 2018
READ LK 1:39-45 Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, ...
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Faith and Family: The Coming of Christ
Susan Hines-Brigger
December 5, 2018
READ BAR 5:1-9 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ...
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