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In Search of Renewal: Remembering Emily Malbone Morgan

February 25, 2023 By Bird Treacy Leave a Comment

When I was young, my grandmother hinted that maybe I would be the first person in our family to be ordained.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Godly Play, lay ministry, priesthood, saints

Just Like The Movies: The Many Stories of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra

December 6, 2022 By Bird Treacy Leave a Comment

One of the other wonderful things about having so many ways to tell a story is that we can think creatively about how to share them in  our own families and communities.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Godly Play, movie, saints, St. Nicholas

Not that Kind of King

November 20, 2022 By Bird Treacy Leave a Comment

We’re almost there: the ending of the season after Pentecost which is also the beginning of Advent and a new Church Year. But, as we move into this final Green Growing Sunday, we also encounter a potential stumbling block.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Christ the King, Godly Play, Wiggles & Wonder

Not So Creepy: The Invitation of All Hallows’ Eve

October 31, 2022 By Bird Treacy 1 Comment

All Hallows’ Eve offers us an invitation unlike anything else in our culture.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: All Hallow's Eve, Bible, death, Halloween

Turn Around: Embracing Change On The Feast of Saint Matthew

September 21, 2022 By Bird Treacy Leave a Comment

As a child, my understanding of Lutheran theology was informed at least as much by its distance from Roman Catholicism as it was by anything we did in worship itself.

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Filed Under: Prayer, Saints Tagged With: change, patron saints, Prayer, roman catholic, St. Matthew

Co-Creating A Christian Life: Dispatches from the Wild Goose Festival

August 3, 2022 By Bird Treacy Leave a Comment

The simplest way I can describe Wild Goose is a progressive Christian festival, an ecumenical experience that can house exvangelicals on deconstruction journeys alongside various mainstream protestants, Catholics, Quakers, and the unaffiliated.

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The Prodigal Son & The Disney Princess

March 27, 2022 By Bird Treacy Leave a Comment

When we read Bible stories, we always want to cast ourselves as favorably as possible. Sure, we might not be the Forgiving Father – that’s clearly Jesus casting himself in his story, right? – but we could at least be the forgiven son. Except we usually aren’t.

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