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Book Release! Thoughtful Boldness is now on Amazon.com!

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • November 10, 2025
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Children of God

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • June 1, 2020
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Who Would Jesus Vote For?

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • October 27, 2022
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broken chair

The Joy of Mismatched Chairs

KKK at 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, VA

It is Racism. It is Sin. It is Wrong

woman in pink tank top

Recycling People

Would Jesus Own a Gun?

blue and white wooden chair

A Blue Christmas Chair

An Obituary for Racial Colorblindness

Children of God

A New Box of Crayons

Love Your Enemies

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • February 15, 2021
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OPEN

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • August 29, 2014
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Balance the World

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • October 6, 2023
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Restoration!

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • February 14, 2022
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Gentle & Meek
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Gentle & Meek

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • April 25, 2024
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A hymn I originally penned in 2013, updated for Palm Sunday 2024. Available for purchase on Arrange Me. https://www.noteflight.com/music/titles/7de26d75-cd4c-4817-88ed-479c7f80b8da/gentle-meek Related Images:

Love Has Won, Death Dies Away
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Love Has Won, Death Dies Away

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • April 25, 2024
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New Lyrics for Old Tunes. Hymn for Easter 2024 at NKPC. For Sale at Arrange Me. https://www.noteflight.com/music/titles/90679c07-3db0-42c7-8b1c-7a4d4190bb42/love-has-won-death-dies-away Related Images:

Naked on the Porch
  • Social Justice

Naked on the Porch

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • April 25, 2024
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There is a joke about how to tell if you live in a rural, suburban or urban neighborhood:  If you stand naked on the more »

An Empty Mason Jar
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An Empty Mason Jar

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • April 25, 2024
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If you peek around my kitchen, currently perched in a wooden basket on top of the microwave, you will find an empty mason jar.  This more »

Daffodils in the Snow
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Daffodils in the Snow

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • April 4, 2024
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I mournfully peered out of my living room window to my patch of daffodils by the sidewalk. The “daffys” were blooming with their boisterous yellow more »

Just Waiting
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Just Waiting

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • March 7, 2024
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I am just waiting, sitting in a hospital room chair while my mother dozes in her room. Across from me, the television flashes at whispered more »

Recycling People
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Recycling People

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • February 29, 2024
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In May of 2023, Kent County broke ground on the last cell available in our landfill.  The new 6-acre section is the last of the more »

Water Not Blood
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Water Not Blood

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • February 1, 2024
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I was despondent as I pulled out the mop and started working on cleaning up the floors.  The white tracks were all over the wood more »

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60 Year Old Letter from Birmingham Jail

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • January 21, 2024
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A Blue Christmas Chair
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A Blue Christmas Chair

  • Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge
  • January 4, 2024
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 In many people’s homes this Christmas, there is an empty blue chair. — It may not be literally blue, excepting the La-Z- Boy recliners and more »

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