All posts by Russell L. Bennett

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The Celestine Vision

Fellowship Congregational Church, Tulsa, Okla. Reading for Transfiguration Sunday (Last Sunday after Epiphany): Luke 9:28-36 Early 20th century English writer G. K. Chesterton once defined philosophy as “thinking that had been thought out.” We are influenced, Chesterton went on to say, either by thought that

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Meeting Jesus Again

Fellowship Congregational Church, Tulsa, Okla. Reading for the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany: Luke 5:1-11  You can always tell what is going on in the United States by what people are willing to spend their money on. Books about religion or the sacred are currently better

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When God Loves the World

Fellowship Congregational Church, Tulsa, Okla. Reading for the Fourth Sunday in Lent: John 3:14-21 A dear friend and co-worker for human rights, Barbara Santee, has written a play which has just completed its second run at the Heller Theater, and which has been selected to

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When I Am Still, I Hear the Quiet Voice

Fellowship Congregational Church, Tulsa, Okla. Reading for the Second Sunday after Epiphany: 1 Samuel 3:1-10  This past week I wrote to the Confirmation Class and members of the youth groups inviting them to a weekend retreat, the purpose of which will be to learn a