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Michael Battle
Michael Battle is provost and canon theologian in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.
Elusive communion: The Anglican conversation on sexuality
The conflict in the Anglican Communion over homosexuality is usually represented as a split between the U.S., British and Canadian churches on the one hand and the rest of the Anglican world on the...
The other kingdom: Luke 23:33-43
“See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves” (Luke 10:3)....
Faith on idle: Sunday, November 18. 2 Thessalonians 3:6–13.
“For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work....
Gasping for air: Sunday, November, 4. Isaiah 1:10-18.
“When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood...
Wild fire: Sunday, November 11. Job 19: 23-27a.
“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall se...
Heavenly minded
Throughout much of history, opium has been used as a narcotic to ease human suffering....
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