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Keep the Faith: Ice Cream for the Soul Rev. Dr. Barbara Therese How do you experience The Divine? How may you observe, encounter or behold the presence, the mystery or the sublimity of God or of your Higher Power? Holy Scripture records that Noah observes God in a rainbow. (Genesis 9:12-16) Moses encounters God in a burning bush. (Exodus 3:2-4) Elijah beholds God, not in a whirlwind or a fire or an earthquake, but in a still, small voice. (1 Kings 19:11-12) In our modern culinary age, certain food enthusiasts declare blessed benefits of “soul food.” Among these spiritual gourmets are thos...

“In God we trust.” In our fellow U.S. citizens, we do not trust. This distrust is printed in our news, in our social media and on our faces. How may we citizens move from distrust to trust? •                      Once, in the African nation of Ethiopia, a woman named Marissa married a man named Emu.  Emu's first wife had died five years earlier.  Before her death, Emu's first wife had given birth to a son named Sonoma. Marissa was overjoyed when she went to live in the village of her husband, Emu.  Marissa was equally joyful that Emu had a son.  She had wanted a child.  ...