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Stephanie Perdew

Stephanie Perdew (Cherokee Nation) is director of the Damascus Project, the theological education ministry of the Wisconsin and Minnesota Conferences of the United Church of Christ, and affiliate professor of Christian history at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.

Voices

My protector was not on the ballot this fall

I look to the hills, not to a politician.
Books

Diane Glancy’s search for home

Glancy’s spirit is shaped as much by her exile from her tribe as by her ties to it.
Features

On Native land

Land acknowledgments can do a lot of good—if they’re rooted in solid process and relationships.
Sunday’s Coming

What the stones have witnessed (Luke 19:28-40)

The biblical landscape is a stony one.
Sunday’s Coming

A rite of spontaneous love (John 12:1-8)

Mary has learned that God spares nothing in loving us.
In the Lectionary

April 10, Passion Sunday C (Luke 22:14-23:56)

We betray Jesus for far less than was offered to Judas.
In the Lectionary

April 10, Palm Sunday C (Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29; Luke 19:28-40)

Even if we think we don’t need a savior, we seek one.
In the Lectionary

April 3, Lent 5C (John 12:1-8)

Were Mary and Martha at the Last Supper? It’s possible.

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