Home by another way? How Epiphany can help us navigate today’s tensions
The Magi protected the Christ child by going home another way. What does that gesture mean in a world where millions of people are being displaced or deported?
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Joining our voices with 17 centuries of saints through the Nicene Creed
Reciting the Nicene Creed each week provides connection with those around us and those who have gone before, writes the director of communications for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Emily Lund
Director of Communications, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Advice for Epiphany: ‘Keep your eyes on the baby!’
Watching a 2-year-old reminds a loving grandmother of the way Epiphany grounds us, revealing a baby — the Christ child.
Link to author Gretchen E. Ziegenhals
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Gretchen E. Ziegenhals
Spiritual director and retreat leader
At Epiphany, new ways of being
We can look to the unlikely group gathered for Christ’s nativity as a model for friendship, writes the director of the Thriving in Ministry Coordination Program at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Alaina Kleinbeck
Associate Executive Director, Coordination Programs
Our saints and their stories
At All Saints’ Day, a pastor reflects on the importance of remembering those whose lives inspire us.
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Jane Lyon
Pastor and nonprofit founder
Accompanied by a communion of ordinary saints
All Saints’ Day is a reminder of the faithful departed who made room for God, a pastor writes.
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Isaac Villegas
Pastor and writer
Aleta Payne: The wise men packed up their privilege and slipped out the back
As we mark Epiphany, let’s work to share our power rather than taking the comfortable path, writes an editor with Faith & Leadership.
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Aleta Payne
Senior editor, Faith & Leadership
The tradition of child bishops teaches the meaning of the Magnificat
In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a church enthrones a young chorister as “bishop” every December in a medieval practice that illustrates the upside-down spirit of Advent.
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Chris Karnadi
Editor, Faith & Leadership
L. Roger Owens: Follow your stars?
After years of looking for his one true vocation, a seminary professor of Christian spirituality considers an alternative picture of vocation. What if it’s not a single star we should follow but a constellation?
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L. Roger Owens
Hugh Thomson Kerr Professor of Pastoral Theology, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Rhonda Mawhood Lee: Bless all the beasts, rats included
Despite their reputation, rats -- at least the domesticated variety -- are warm, empathetic companions who challenge the lines we draw between “lovable” and “unworthy,” says an Episcopal priest. Remember them and other unpopular pets this St. Francis Day.
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Rhonda Mawhood Lee
Priest, spiritual director and writer
Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: The gracefulness of hope
Even in a fearful, divided and dark world, the Magi gracefully and joyfully sought the Christ child by seeing hope in a tiny point of light, writes a managing director at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Gretchen E. Ziegenhals
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Gretchen E. Ziegenhals
Spiritual director and retreat leader
