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Seven

Posted on November 5, 2025 by Rosalind C Hughes

And then, imagine it from her point of view: seven lifetimes of love, regret, loss, laughter. Seven lifetimes of abuse – pray not. Seven lifetimes of blessing, despite the woes, hope despite it all. Seven lifetimes and here, in eternity, … Continue reading →

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Year C Proper 27: No such thing as a stupid question?

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

You know how we always tell each other, and especially our children, that there’s no such thing as a stupid question? I have to think that the Sadducees were pushing the envelope on this one. It wasn’t because they were … Continue reading →

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Responding to a Sadducee

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

Resurrection is not “a conjuring trick with bones,”* nor is the resurrection a reality-tv show about the life of seven brothers and their unnamed widow-sister-wife Resurrection is not undone by the cynicism of the resurrected one blinking, bewildered in the … Continue reading →

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