from Living the Good News Having a goal like building the kingdom cannot be accomplished unless one identifies the tasks that …
Digging Deeper: Reformation Sunday
by Sharon Ely Pearson It was on October 31, 1517, that Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the church in …
Digging Deeper: Understanding High School Learners
If high-school teens (Grades 9, 10, 11, & 12) could describe themselves, here are some things they might tell us. …
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Digging Deeper: Living Our Faith in the World
In her autobiography An American Childhood, poet and essayist Annie Dillard describes her growth process as a series of …
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18 Creative Ways to Support Leaders
Here are eighteen ways that churches have said to their group leaders, “Thanks! You’re doing a great job, and someone is …
Digging Deeper: Who ARE these guys?
In reading the gospels, there is a whole cast of characters whose lives interweave and intersect with Jesus's …
Digging Deeper: The Feast of the Assumption
August 15th is the Feast of the Assumption. Around this feast cluster so many associations that a wide variety of images …
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Digging Deeper: Peter and the Rock
from Living the Good News Matthew 16:17-19 has been one of the most vigorously discussed passages of the New Testament, …
Lectionary-Based Faith Formation
"When we follow the lectionary, we read large sections of the Bible over a three-year span. Many churches also choose to go deeper …
A Model for Mother’s Day: Julian of Norwich
In our excessively active world, a world that assaults us daily with e-mail, faxes, junk mail, bills, memos, phone calls …
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