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“Resurrection Detection Part 4”

Sunday, May 3, 2026
Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, Asheville, NC
The Fifth Sunday of Easter

“It is an act of resistance and repair to practice sensing into the way Divine Love dwells within you cellularly, within us as a collective, within the world in its created nature–in the ways we are connected to everything that is. Resurrection is not counter to human experience, it is counter to the experiences we are taught to see, we are taught to believe.”

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