Author

Leon Bloder

@lbloder

articles: 17
total claps: 10
top claps: 10
avg read: 2.6 min
active: 2025-01-27 → 2025-11-17

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🧘 · Spirituality · 16 🕊️ · Religion · 5 💑 · Relationships · 4 RAG · RAG & Retrieval · 2 🧠 · Mental Wellness · 2 ✊ · Equality & Identity · 2 🛠️ · Crafts & DIY · 2 📊 · Economic Policy · 2

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#spiritual-growth ·12 #spiritual-awakening ·11 #spiritual-maturity ·4 #holy-communion ·2 #compassion ·2 #divine-presence ·2 #peacemaker ·2 #forgiveness ·2 #baptism ·1 #baptism-of-jesus ·1

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Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Throughout his ministry, Jesus taught his followers what it means to be peacemakers, the kinds of people who value relationships over…

Jan 27, 2025 · 3 min read · 10 claps #peacemaking #peacemaker #desmond-tutu

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Known & Beloved

Years ago, I officiated at a funeral for a man I did not know. He was loosely connected to the church I was serving at the time through…

Sep 26, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #known #being-known #known-by-god

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The Kingdom Imagination

“Imagination is evidence of the divine.” — William Blake

Nov 04, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #kingdom-of-god #holy-imagination #imagining-creates-reality

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The Cross & The Empire

“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something…

Nov 14, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #christian-nationalism #the-kingdom-of-god #christianity

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The Power Within

I have read more than my fair share of self-help books to know that the only people who truly get help from most of them are the authors…

Aug 05, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #self-awareness #divine-presence #spiritual-growth

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The Healing Power of Love

Last year, I had the opportunity to see Ringo Starr and his All-Starr band in concert in Austin.

Jun 10, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #love #power-of-love #love-wins-all

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The Holy Ache

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” — Frederick Buechner

Nov 03, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #longing #longing-for-god #divine-presence

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Remembering Your Baptism

One of the many beautiful things that I get to do as a pastor is baptize people. I grew up in the Baptist tradition, which (if you didn’t…

Oct 10, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #baptism #baptism-of-jesus #baptism-of-the-spirit

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Courageous Compassion

“When he saw him, he was moved with pity.” — Luke 10:33

Nov 17, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #compassion #compassionate #mercy-and-compassion

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The Courage To Lament

“How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?” — Psalm 13:1

Nov 13, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #grief #grief-and-loss #grief-recovery

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The Table That Transforms

Every Sunday that I preside over the Lord’s Supper at my church, I take a brief, quiet moment to reflect on how amazing it is to have the…

Oct 09, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #holy-communion #lords-supper #holy-eucharist

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The Table of Grace

“When we break bread and share it with one another, we are participating in the very life of God.” — Henri Nouwen

Nov 10, 2025 · 2 min read · 0 claps #holy-communion #open-communion #table-fellowship

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Carrying One Another’s Burdens

“We are all just walking each other home.” — Ram Dass

Nov 11, 2025 · 2 min read · 0 claps #bearing-burdens #compassion #ministry-of-presence

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Building Bridges, Not Walls

“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative love.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

Nov 12, 2025 · 2 min read · 0 claps #bridge-builders #peacemaker #common-ground

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Becoming Lightbearers

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” — Edith Wharton.

Nov 05, 2025 · 2 min read · 0 claps #light-of-the-world #light-of-christ #light-bearers

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Forgiveness As Freedom

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” — Lewis B. Smedes

Nov 07, 2025 · 2 min read · 0 claps #forgiveness #self-forgiveness #forgive-yourself

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The Gift of Belonging

“We don’t think ourselves into a new way of living; we live ourselves into a new way of thinking.” — Richard Rohr

Nov 06, 2025 · 2 min read · 0 claps #belonging #inclusion-and-belonging #sense-of-belonging