Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Resources for Lent

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    Weaving Our Testimonies Together: Banners

    These banners originated as part of the "Weaving Our Testimonies Together: A Collaborative Art Project" for our congregation in Canada. As seen in the...

    A Journey with the Cross

    The first time I ever saw a flowering cross, I was visiting Todd in Athens, Georgia back during his days as a Latin scholar...

    Service of Shadows Decor

    In the Catholic tradition the services conducted Thursday through Saturday of Holy Week are sometimes referred to as the Tenebrae service. From the Latin,...

    A Review and a Reckoning Part 1

    After listening to Clint Smith speak in an interview about his book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery...

    A Review and a Reckoning Part 2

    While planning my daughters’ homeschool history lessons I stumbled across Wheatlands Plantation about an hour away from where we’ve been living in Tennessee. Not...

    Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down

    There are two traditional Scripture readings associated with Ash Wednesday.  The Gospel lesson is Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 in which Jesus gives His disciples instructions...

    In Remembrance

    This is my first MLK Day holiday after five years in Canada where the third Monday in January is just another day, the start...

    Easter Topiaries

    The unofficial theme for the Easter I created these topiaries might as well have been "Church Clean-Out," because everything I used to make them...

    Easter Floral Arrangements

    When creating a aesthetic for Easter Sunday, the most important thing to me is the visual contrast of that day with the earlier barrenness...

    Into the Light

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    Book Reviews

    A Review and a Reckoning Part 1

    After listening to Clint Smith speak in an interview about his book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery...

    A Review and a Reckoning Part 2

    While planning my daughters’ homeschool history lessons I stumbled across Wheatlands Plantation about an hour away from where we’ve been living in Tennessee. Not...

    Daughters of Rizpah: Working Through Trauma

    Buttry, Sharon A. and Daniel L. Buttry. Daughters of Rizpah: Nonviolence and the Transformation of Trauma. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020. Sharon and Dan Buttry...

    World of Meaning

    This month marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Howard Thurman (April 10), an early twentieth century African-American theologian, poet, pastor, and activist...

    Books for Reckoning with White Supremacy in the American Church

    The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James H. Cone (2011) The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, Jemar Tisby...

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