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We asked each of our ministerial interns to share a reflection on what God means to them. Here’s what they had to say.

“Are you there, God? It’s me,” Meg.”Yes, and if you don’ mind, I’ll keep calling you Margaret. It confuses me when you young people are always taking nicknames. It’s hard enough learning one name for each of you!”

We touch this strength, our power, who we are in the world, when we are most fully in touch with one another and with the world.

At home on a bookshelf we have a massive folio-style slipcover book titled Cabinet of Natural Curiosities by Albertus Seba, a pharmacist in eighteenth-century Amsterdam.

People go astray in their search for God because they do not take the right starting-point. We should never begin by asking, “Is there a God?”– as though God could be something outside of ordinary experience; or, to put it in the old-fashioned way, something outside of Nature.

If I were asked to confess my faith or my beliefs out loud, and I were scrambling for some place to begin, I would start in the desert, in the lonesome valley, and say that first of all and ultimately we are alone.

Your missionary ancestors told Indian people that they were worshipping a false god when we prayed to the sun. The sun is the most powerful physical presence in our lives.

World that is my home,Spirit that matters,Speak to me in the voices of Ralph Waldo Emerson,yes, and Florence Nightingale…