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Holy Week: Telling Our Shared Story

In a 2021 conversation, Richard Lischer and Will Willimon reflected on observing Holy Week during the pandemic. Though the shadow of the pandemic has receded more this Holy Week, their observations still ring true. Lischer observes, “During Holy Week, church is a family telling its stories.” Beginning…
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Spiritual Formation

Lent: Preparing for Resurrection

This is a continuation of our article from two weeks ago. Have mercy on me, oh God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy…
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Observing a Holy Lent?

On Ash Wednesday in Anglican or Episcopal churches the congregation is invited, “…in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God’s holy Word.”  Growing up in the Christian…
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Lent: An Invitation to Live in God’s Time

The season of Lent “reminds us to live in God’s time and not the world’s time,” observes Katy Lines (ECS, ’98), pastor at Englewood Christian Church in Indianapolis. It places our personal and communal stories within the larger narrative of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection. In recent conversations with the…