Advent’s surprise for us
What might happen if we greeted the season with wonder and amazement?
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Allowing Advent to find us honestly
We can reframe the Advent season in order to reclaim it, writes an author and academic.
Link to author Shannon W. Dycus
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Shannon W. Dycus
Pastor and educator
All Saints’ Day invites us to grieve well
An author and chaplain is incorporating the traditions of the annual feast day in mourning the deaths of loved ones.
Link to author Khristi Lauren Adams
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Khristi Lauren Adams
Author
Crawfish and lizards and mice, oh my! Photos from the Blessing of the Animals
It’s one of the joys of church life – the Blessing of the Animals! Readers sent in their favorite images from this annual ritual, including, yes, crawfish and lizards and a mouse. Also some very cute dogs.
Easter in Ukraine: ‘It’s pretty humbling to witness and document’
An award-winning journalist shares photos she took in Ukraine during Palm Sunday and Easter services in 2022.
Link to author Carol Guzy
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Carol Guzy
Photojournalist
10 ways to avoid inadvertent antisemitism during Holy Week
An expert in Jewish-Christian relations offers guidelines for avoiding the implicit and explicit expression of hatred toward Jews in Easter liturgies and practices.
Link to author Elena Procario-Foley
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Elena Procario-Foley
Brother John G. Driscoll Professor of Jewish-Catholic Studies, Iona University
What if faith-based organizations focused on being kinder this Lent?
Institutions, like individuals, might try intentionally practicing “unusual kindness,” writes a director of programs and grants at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Mycal X. Brickhouse
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Mycal X. Brickhouse
Director of programs and grants, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Lent is a time to rest in God’s unrelenting love
Language that stresses humanity’s distance from God can be deeply hurtful. I prefer to dwell on our belovedness and God’s unwavering maternal heart, writes an author.
Link to author Jean Neely
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Jean Neely
Scholar and writer
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.
Link to author Alaina Kleinbeck
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Alaina Kleinbeck
Director, Thriving in Ministry Coordination Program
Can’t relate to Christmas Mary? There’s good news for you too
For women without biological children, the veneration of Mary can be alienating. But Mary’s freedom song in Luke’s Gospel offers another way to regard the mother of Jesus, writes an author.
Link to author Erin S. Lane
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Erin S. Lane
Writer
What was Joseph to do?
Mary is understandably a focus of most Advent stories, but there are also lessons to learn from Joseph, writes a director of programs and grants at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Mycal X. Brickhouse
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Mycal X. Brickhouse
Director of programs and grants, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
