Holiday
The First Sunday of Advent
Known as the ‘hope of the prophets,’ this first marker of Advent is a reminder that God does not ignore our world’s darkness and that we strain toward a future hope not yet realized.
Most people in the U.S. are at least vaguely acquainted with the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, if only from popular culture references or the cult classic movie Tombstone.
Thanksgiving With the Knives Out
A Quiet Easter of Longing and Hope
Good Friday and the Death of a Lamb
The Final March of Holy Week
Palm Sunday: The Grand Set Up for Disappointment
Ash Wednesday: From Dust Unto Dust
A strange little holiday is coming up, and if you haven’t celebrated it before, should you and how would you?
Almighty God, you have created us out of the dust of the earth. Grant that these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and penitence, that we may remember that it is only by your gracious gift that we are given everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Savior.
Lent: What Is It, and Why Bother?
This particular holiday is commonly assumed to be a Catholic one, but it has far older roots in the earliest beginnings of the church and has clear modern day relevance for God’s people.
A group of avowed agnostics decided to observe Lent, “atheist Lent” as they put it.