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Envisioning Jesus in Our Own Image

July 21, 2022 By Allison Sandlin Liles 3 Comments

Mom, I thought Jesus had white skin?

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: art, Jesus Christ, parenting, racism, Sewanee

The Spiritual Practice of Bible Journaling

June 3, 2022 By Traci Smith Leave a Comment

I’m on vacation for a little while.. a great time to work on some spiritual practices that have become important to me in recent weeks and months.

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Filed Under: Spiritual Practices Tagged With: art, Bible, Bible Study, Christian formation, Traci Smith

The Bread Box, Ecumenical Love, and Murals

April 22, 2021 By Sarah Carr 1 Comment

Whatever this seminary word may mean tomorrow, today ecumenical means that the Church universal served the church local, and everyone knew Love.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: art, church, ecumenism

Bringing Saint Joseph to the Center

March 19, 2021 By Bingham Powell 2 Comments

Today is the feast of Saint Joseph, but before we talk about that, I need to share with you one of the best Christmas presents I received this year: a llama needle felting kit!

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: art, Bible, crafts, Jesus, Joseph

Saint Andrew’s Evangelism

November 30, 2020 By Marcus Halley Leave a Comment

Saint Andrew was a pioneer in many ways. His festival is often the first major Christian feast celebrated after the beginning of the Christian year to commemorate his status of being the “first called.”

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: art, evangelism, Feast Days, St. Andrew

Saint Bartholomew and Brokenness

August 24, 2020 By George Roberts Leave a Comment

Nothing, really, is known about Bartholomew, who is mentioned in the list of disciples in the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke). While John does […]

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: art, Feast Days, St. Bartholomew

Celebrating Pentecost at Home

May 31, 2020 By Allison Sandlin Liles 1 Comment

It’s been fifty days since Easter Day. Fifty days. Seven Weeks. An entire liturgical season spent physically distancing from our church families.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: art, cooking with kids, coronavirus, Feast Days, Heather Sleightholm, Illustrated Children's Ministry, Pentecost

I Choir the Proper Praise

April 29, 2020 By Cara Meredith 2 Comments

Just after 7:30 this morning my younger son and I trekked out to the driveway in our slippers and pajamas, a box of sidewalk paint, a roll of masking paint, and my cup of coffee our only companions.  

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: art, children, coronavirus, Easter, parenting

Our Family’s Guide for the Good Book Club

January 25, 2020 By Emily Watkins

I love Epiphany.  I love the stories of the Magi, Anna, Simeon, Paul, Peter, the wedding guests, and others who realize who Jesus is and why he has come.

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Filed Under: Good Book Club Tagged With: art, Bible, children, Epiphany, Scripture, The Good Book Club, young children

#AdventWord 2019

December 1, 2019 By Sarah Stonesifer Leave a Comment

For the past six years, #AdventWord has given the opportunity to participate in a global advent calendar with visual and written meditations. Each day, a short reflection, word, and image arrives in email inboxes and on social media to help focus on the preparatory season during the 24 busy days of Advent.  

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, adventword, art, creativity, social media, Virginia Theological Seminary

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