Callings – Festival Center Reopens! New Wellspring Director Adam Greene, Easter Sunrise Service, +More
Callings – Spring 2023 The Spring 2023 issue of Callings is full of exciting updates from the community beginning with the long anticipated and greatly welcomed reopening of The Festival Center at 1640 Columbia Road, NW after its complete renovation. Director of Development Lindsay Fertig-Johnson details all of the improvements and program intentions looking forward. Adam Greene […]
Take Off Your Shoes – Feb. 28, 2023
“Whenever I pass the majestic mosque in my city, I find myself wishing that we would emulate our Muslim neighbors who leave their shoes at the door. We can grow almost too comfortable and easy, almost casual in our relationship with the high-voltage God whom theologian Rudolf Otto termed “a tremendous and fascinating mystery.” But […]
What You Desire – Feb. 24, 2023
“Because it is not what you are nor what you have been that God looks at with his merciful eyes, but what you desire to be.” -The Cloud of Unknowing, trans. James Walsh, Ch. 75, p. 265
Short Prayer – Feb. 23, 2023
“A short prayer pierces heaven.” –The Cloud of Unknowing, trans. James Walsh, Ch. 37, p. 193