Connecting to Holy Week Through Family Meals
As a youth and young adult ministries director, I often struggle to balance my work in the church with personal […]
Holy Week
In the Garden
When I was in high school, I had the opportunity to visit the Holy Land with my family. We were
Holy Week at Home
For many families, attending church on a weeknight is challenging, to say the least. School, sports, lessons, orthodontist appointments –
Can you transfer the Annunciation?
When an important celebration like the Annunciation falls in Holy Week, can we transfer it to a more palatable date? Liturgically, sure.
Lent
Shouldering Our Way through Good Friday
Shouldering is a way of moving upwards, out of the darkness and into the light. Not unlike human shoulders that shrug and scrunch, sometimes toward the ears and sometimes back down toward the belly, when a vegetable is good and ready it will scrunch and shoulder toward the sky.
The humble intimacy of Maundy Thursday
Looking back at the Grow Christians pandemic posts for Maundy Thursday about the creative ways families shared this night’s ritual, part of me wonders if our church services can ever approach the intimacy of the footwashing done by family members for one another.
Choosing Compassion on Palm Sunday and Everyday
On Palm Sunday we hear about a tragedy that unfolds at the hands of tyrants and a destructive empire.
It’s Holy Saturday, and we wait.
I often hear, and have said myself, you can’t get to Easter Sunday without Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. But what about Holy Saturday?