A Stormy Season
Recently, I heard a group of liturgical scholars refer to these long months of pandemic as “Covidtide,” almost as if it were an official season of the church year. Unlike the joyful twelve-day period of Christmastide, which leads to the celebration of the unveiling Christ’s glory at Epiphany, the season of Covidtide has been marked […]
Family of Faith – June 10, 2021
“[God’s] love is most vividly and radically demonstrated when [God’s] own followers, [God’s] brothers and sisters, band together and actually serve one another… when we have no “family of faith” to which we belong and where daily, practical deeds of love are expressed, we are at risk of failing to minister to Christ himself.” -Charles […]
A Deep Longing – June 8, 2021
“American culture has almost entirely fragmented the extended family. As a result, we experience a deep longing for the things the extended family used to provide… The church as a family can be a way of incarnating an answer to these longings.” -Hal Miller, from “Brothers, Sisters” in Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants […]
Specific Love – June 7, 2021
“God’s love is very specific… God’s universal love and [God’s] great mercy for the world are ultimately known and revealed in the particularity of human beings loving each other as [siblings].” -Charles E. Moore, from “Next Door” in Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People, p. 292-293
