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Gary Jewell

Rev. Gary Jewell is serving as interim minister at Community Congregational United Church of Christ in Pullman. Jewell, who is based in Spokane, served as co-pastor at Shalom/Mennonite UCC in Spokane and as interim pastor at several churches in the Pacific Northwest, including Plymouth UCC in Colfax and Spring Valley Mennonite Church in Newport. 
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What Would a Country Run by White Christian Nationalists Look Like?

A few years ago, many of us might not have considered white Christian nationalism as a viable existential threat to American democracy. Not so now. And for all intents and purposes it is going to be on the ballot this November.
Israel-Hamas War

A World Beyond Fear and Vengeance Is Possible

This letter comes almost three months into Israel’s war on Gaza. Many credible voices (Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the United Nations — to name a few) claim this war to be a war of ethnic cleansing.
Commentary

Why Stories Matter

In the religious world, clergy folk work with what writers, psychologists and philosophers call “meta-narratives.” This is to say we speak of a large, eternal story in which our smaller, personal story resides.

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