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      <image:caption>serves as the location pastor for Resurrection Spring Hill. Angie is an ordained elder from the Desert Southwest Conference of the United Methodist Church who moved to Kansas from Arizona in 2017. She completed her doctorate degree, focusing on Christian sexual ethics, at Saint Paul School of Theology in May 2023. Angie is married to Jonathan Bell, who also serves on staff at Resurrection. Together, they have six kids, a live-in sister who is active in Matthew’s Ministry, and a totally joyful life.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>serves as Pastor of Care and Director of Student Ministries at Church of the Resurrection in Overland Park. A Kansas native, she has been a professional actress for nearly two decades, living and performing in New York and now residing in Kansas City, where she performs, directs, and coaches youth. She loves encountering the vastness of God’s creation through theatre and the arts and sharing that vision with her community. Leah earned her master’s degree from Saint Paul School of Theology. She, Brian, and their two children love playing tennis, golf, Mario Party, and board games.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Brian Kaylor speaks to Great Plains clergy at the 2025 Orders &amp; Fellowship gathering in Kearney, Nebraska, exploring how Christian nationalism distorts faith and confuses the call to love God with the pursuit of power.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Examples from the “#ChristianBusiness” hashtag on Instagram, where faith and entrepreneurship often overlap. Used for commentary and educational reflection.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>13 In the middle of the lampstands, I saw someone who looked like the Human One. He wore a robe that stretched down to his feet, and he had a gold sash around his chest. 14 His head and hair were white as white wool—like snow—and his eyes were like a fiery flame. 15 His feet were his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his voice sounded like rushing water. 16 He held seven stars in his right hand, and from his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword. His appearance was like the sun shining with all its power.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog &amp; Weekly Devotions - New Beginnings - My Friend, Gayle celebrated her 40th Birthday and invited us all to celebrate with her.</image:title>
      <image:caption>When you give a preacher a mic, of course they’ll preach. I wanted to share my take-aways from her message.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>It’s awkward and unpolished, but it’s honest. It’s faithful. And it’s mine to offer. I hope it encourages you to develop the parts of yourself you may not admire, or may even avoid. Especially the parts that your friends or your community might need from you.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My family and I are on vacation for a couple of weeks. We are traveling to South Carolina and then taking the long way home through Virginia to see Shenandoah National Park. We were driving through Hunting Island State Park yesterday. This place looks like a jungle. It felt completely foreign.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I kept thinking of those who immigrated from Europe, where there are no trees, and how they would have felt in this swampy jungle. I’m in awe of the towering cedars and the underbrush palms. I was reminded of those who were forcibly immigrated through the slave trade and how they would have felt. Many who were brought for their expertise in rice growing would have been familiar with this climate - an experience completely different than that of my ancestors.</image:caption>
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