The healing stories of Jesus are NOT just about Jesus or the individual. The community always plays a big part in either the harm or the healing. Along with immigrants, and the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities are also targets of societies blame and exclusion.

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Continuing in our series, For God So Loved the Scapegoat, we look at one of the first Queer icons of the Bible. In a time when the LGBTQ+ community is increasingly targeted, we must daily choose to follow Jesus' way of inclusive love.

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As we celebrate Pentecost please welcome Rev. Jodi Fondell who has co-served international congregations in Sweden, England, Luxembourg, and France along with her husband, also a pastor.

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According to a recent commercial and the Bible, "when something goes wrong, you find someone to blame. It's what we do." Yes, scapegoating, is often what we do, but in story after story, God loves those to are blamed. Hagar and Ishmael, for example, reveal to us the who God sees, hears, and loves the excluded.

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The image of the scapegoat runs throughout the Bible with God's love seeking to interrupting this cycle of blame. What can we learn from those who scapegoat and from those who are often blamed and excluded?

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Welcome our guest preacher Rev. Suzanne Swartz.

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Welcome our guest preacher Rev. Elizabeth Gibbs Zehnder.

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On Resurrection Sunday we celebrate that the scapegoating of Jesus by the Roman Empire didn't win. On Easter we are challenged to see the ways we scapegoat others and to see the hope that comes from welcoming those who are excluded.

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