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November 1, All Saints B (Isaiah 25:6-9; Revelation 21:1-6a)
God swallowing up death indicates the ultimate defeat of sorrow and chaos.
November 1, All Saints B (Isaiah 25:6-9; Revelation 21:1-6a)
God swallowing up death indicates the ultimate defeat of sorrow and chaos.
Should we avoid liturgical language of light and dark?
While struggling with this question as a church songwriter, I came up with six guidelines.
On the holiness of casseroles and spreadsheets
When our church offered Rosa sanctuary, our ordinary habits became a politics of hospitality.
On the holiness of casseroles and spreadsheets
When our church offered Rosa sanctuary, our ordinary habits became a politics of hospitality.
Given the environmental future we’re facing, we would do well to address it with resurrection hope.
It often works pretty well for us.
It often works pretty well for us.
Considering the trees on Ash Wednesday
Each tree in my neighborhood is the tree of life.
Godly Play and the language of Christian faith
At the heart of each lesson is storytelling and wondering.
Jesus acts in response to real human suffering and actual human tears.
by Tito Madrazo
In Revelation, faithful testimony is peaceable—not necessarily civil
The disruptive way of the Lamb
by Greg Carey
Climate change and the failure of incarnational nerve
Do we really want God to live with us in a poisoned and degraded world?
Climate change and the failure of incarnational nerve
Do we really want God to live with us in a poisoned and degraded world?
John of Patmos presents readers of Revelation with fantastical visions of what life could be, just as Dickens does to Scrooge.
by Kat Banakis
John of Patmos presents readers of Revelation with fantastical visions of what life could be, just as Dickens does to Scrooge.
by Kat Banakis