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Preaching the Word, Teaching Inclusion

March 23, 2023 By Bird Treacy Leave a Comment

Last week, as priests and pastors and children’s ministers and people of all stripes working in churches attempted to make sense of the miraculous healing at the heart of the lectionary, some extremely important questions came up.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bible, disability, healing, lectionary, Wiggles & Wonder

Beckoned by the Holy

January 6, 2023 By Bonnie Smith Whitehouse Leave a Comment

I love everything about this new season of Epiphany—chalking the doors, eating King Cake, wearing crowns, and reflecting on the light.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Bible, Epiphany, St. Mary Magdalene, The Gospel of John

What she didn’t tell him

January 3, 2023 By Susan Caldwell Leave a Comment

I want to turn our attention to the short story in Luke’s Gospel, when Jesus goes missing.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bible, Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus

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

Saint Luke: Look Buddy

October 18, 2022 By Dorian Del Priore 1 Comment

Sure, this is an absolutely absurd approach to reading scripture, and yet it has the potential to highlight a word that is often overlooked and underappreciated.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Bible, Feast Days, language, Mary, St. Luke

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

An Eastertide Word of the Day

May 3, 2022 By Caroline Rossini 2 Comments

Well, I feel like I need to come clean: I failed.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Bible, Easter, joy, Lent, love, young children

Learning from the Courage and Witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

April 9, 2022 By Eric Liles Leave a Comment

What does it means to be a follower of Jesus when authoritarian leaders co-opt the gospel of peace for their own agenda of war and oppression?

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Bible, bonhoeffer, saints, youth

Where did you see God this week?

March 5, 2022 By Caroline Rossini 1 Comment

This Lent, I hope to clear out some of the noise that prevents me from paying attention.

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Filed Under: Lent, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Bible, Bible Study, God, Lent

Family Morning Prayer with Young Children

January 27, 2022 By Margaret Ellsworth 1 Comment

Worshiping with kids under 5 has never been easy…and during the pandemic it is even more difficult.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Prayer Tagged With: Bible, Book of Common Prayer, coronavirus, worship, young children

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