As we’re venturing into the last week of the Advent season, let’s take a few more moments to discuss the importance of peace. Use the opportunity to share how peace relates to a life lived with Christ. As you gather to discuss the events of your week, reflect on the
All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city. A wedding. A miraculous sign. Water turned into wine. Jesu’ glory revealed. But does it fill us with awe as did those who were present? As it
I have been thinking about forgiveness a lot lately. Jesus taught his disciples that they should not limit the number of times that they forgave people but should forgive people ad infinitum, placing no limit on the number times that they forgave people. He also taught his disciples that if
The Rev. Rob Renfroe, president of Good News By Rob Renfroe – Welcome to the mission field! That may sound strange to those of you living within the United States, but it’s true, and it’s important for us to understand that we are living on a mission field. That reality
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church. Wednesday,
Tu Bishvat, the so-called Jewish new year for trees, will be celebrated by many Jews on Sunday evening with seders full of fruits, readings from Kabbalah or sacred texts about the earth. The Tu Bishvat seder originally arose to celebrate the kabbalists’ vision of the Tree of Life, a branching
Background: Iris Murdoch Iris Murdoch was an atheist and a Platonist moral philosopher who taught at Oxford from 1948-1963 before retiring to spend the rest of her life writing racy novels. At first glance, she seems an unlikely candidate to offer a fresh vision of moral theology to Catholic thinkers.
Grand Opening of The Rowen Glenn Center We are so excited to celebrate the Rowen Glenn Center. It is absolutely thrilling that we are able to welcome each of our friends, families, and volunteers in the Embrace Special Needs Ministry to our new space today. From the bottom of our