Faith • Liturgical Reflections
The Hope of Good Friday
The promise of Good Friday is that when our world is turned upside down, and even our own hearts flee for cover, we have hope.
Continue ReadingThe promise of Good Friday is that when our world is turned upside down, and even our own hearts flee for cover, we have hope.
Continue ReadingThis is the ninth, and final, reflection in the Missio Lent series. Read the rest here. One of our family’s most treasured joys of living in Paris is regularly worshiping with others at the American Cathedral. Each Sunday, people from all over the world enter the Cathedral’s doors and worship God through prayer, liturgy, music, and...
Continue ReadingThis is the eighth reflection in the Missio Lent series. Read the rest here. It is early morning when I head into the living room via the coffee pot in the kitchen. On autopilot, I take a tall mug out of the cupboard. (I like the red or green ones better than the brown.) A long...
Continue ReadingThis is the seventh reflection in the Missio Lent series. Read the rest here. Frequently spiritual leaders remind us that we are more than our professions. Rarely though, are we called to repent of our identification with our jobs. Lent prompts us to repentance, to the subduing of the flesh by the Power of the Spirit....
Continue ReadingThis liturgical season of Lent invites us to slow down and notice the Holy Spirit dwelling here, creating a home within us. Lent is a good season to allow God to make his home within us more intentionally, to be present with him wherever we are.
Continue ReadingFor the Missio Lent series, TWI’s Laura Fabrycky spoke recently with Jen Pollock Michel about her book, Teach Us to Want (IVP, 2014). Jen Pollock Michael is a writer, speaker, and mother of five. She writes regularly for Her.meneutics.com and Today in the World. (Read the rest of the #MissioLent series here.) The Washington Institute:...
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