Do the ancient creeds of the church still hold value for the church 2000 years removed from the empty tomb?
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I picked up Taste, expecting a food memoir but instead was invited to Christ's table of grace.
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Today and in the days ahead, we will pray for the moral courage to demand action so that we do not have to write this letter ever again.
Similar to the practice of Lectio Divina, Visio Divina is a guided, step-by-step process that aids participants in seeing, hearing, and experiencing God.
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We can’t come home to the Church until the Church repents of what it has so long called “home” on its own terms.
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“Poor Christians during the time of the coronavirus, unable to celebrate the Eucharist. They’ll have to make do with *only* the Word of God.” - Rev. Fleming Rutledge
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Yesterday I had the opportunity to spend the day with my kids. No programming I had to drive them to. No agenda for the day, other than chalk art in the church parking lot, riding bikes, and cooking delicious homemade food ALL DAY.
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I could never write of Tony’s love and affection for Albert. This is Tony’s story to tell and I think it is a story we all need to hear in a time when we are being reminded of our own mortality.
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Christ as the head of the church is holding us together. We can lean into Christ, knowing the yoke we carry as clergy is not ours to hold on our own.
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The routine of the church is pretty simple.
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In the stillness we find ourselves in, Christ is present.
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I have two degrees - a Master of Divinity and a Master of Theological Studies, focusing on missional theology. Neither of those fields has prepared me for the buzzing this week.
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Withdrawn reflection is different from happily boasting of one’s piety.
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We are enough. Sure, there are always ways we can tweak our day-to-day’s and live better, but the baseline starting point for everyone is this - you are enough, just as you are.
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Looking back, 2019 was a burr. On top of conferences and vacations, I wrote more than ever before. Here are the most popular posts of 2019.
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Ask my wife and she will gladly tell you I wear my emotions on my shoulder and between the two of us, I am the emotional basket-case in the family. She didn’t marry me because of my affinity for romantic-comedies. Though, perhaps it is my affinity for movies featuring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson that make me predisposed to feel the way I have been feeling as of late.
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For as long as I can remember, all the way back to Jed Barlet, politicians I have been proclaiming doom if they are not elected.
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We have not acted and now we find ourselves beginning to retreat back into the ordinary time of the world. We assume the ordinariness of the summer life of the church gives way to kick-offs in the fall but Advent begins today! The Hope and Promise of the Incarnation push the ordinary of the world to the side as the Hope and Promise of Christ’s justice and mercy take centerstage.
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On May 13 as I sit in the National Cathedral, I will be a stranger sitting next to people who are walking a similar journey to mine. They may become colleagues of mine in the Virginia Annual Conference or maybe, I will never see or speak to them again.
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For the Word Made Flesh to be weaponized means we are attempting the realign Christ with those who not only had him crucified but also with those who maintain power today through threats of violence and marginalization.