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Weekly Lectionary Essay Taken Up To Heaven: The Ascension of Jesus By Dan Clendenin - Posted May 14, 2023 We're now six weeks after Easter. Next Sunday is Pentecost. Between those liturgical milestones, this week we celebrate the ascension of Jesus. Christians confess that Jesus "came down" to earth in the incarnation. After his crucifixion and before his resurrection…
Denise Levertov (1923–1997) was born in England to a Welsh mother and a Russian Hasidic father, who converted and became an Anglican priest. She published nearly fifty volumes of poetry, prose, and translations, and taught at Brandeis, MIT, Tufts, Stanford, and the University of Washington…
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