"Chalking the Door" is a short liturgy for marking our homes with sacred symbols and asking God's blessing upon those who live, …
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"Chalking the Door" is a short liturgy for marking our homes with sacred symbols and asking God's blessing upon those who live, …
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’Tis the season for gift-giving guides and black Friday sales that started a month ago. As active disciples in faith communities, …
Growing up our family had one of the Avon Christmas Count-Down Calendars from 1987 with the mouse that moved from one …
The Feast of All Saints takes place on November 1. Because this day calls Christians to remember and celebrate all members of the …
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When I started at St. John’s in Olney, Maryland, the church's biggest challenge was children's ministry. In its recent past, the …
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As the church enters a new normal with COVID and people are moving back into the busy-ness of life, how can we be meaningfully …
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Are you someone who "doesn't really get" poetry? Do you love poems? I'm hoping to bring together people in both categories in my …
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What portrait of a life of faith do you carry with you? Mine tends to focus on doing: praying, reading and studying scripture, …
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On January 6, we celebrate the Feast of Epiphany. We retell the story in Matthew's gospel of the Magi arriving in Bethlehem and …
You are invited to join in a multimedia meditation for a moment of "hush in the rush" this Advent season. The Center for Christian …
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