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By Michael Carney
Our latest blog explores the ideas of metamorphosis and transfiguration. When was the last time you went up on a mountain, and what did you see?
By Lisa G. Fischbeck
After several attempts to add the daily office to the Advocate’s liturgical offerings through the years, both in person and online, Covid has given us the inclination and the desire to make it happen. Zoom has made it possible.
By Amanda L. Nickles
In Let’s Remember Hope, Amanda Nickles remembers words from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s powerful I Have a Dream speech and is hopeful that we can all live united in love, care and compassion for one another.
By Ken Howard
In "I Can’t Breathe" - Mapping Systemic Racism, Ken Howard uses mapping and probability to prove that systemic racism exists. See for yourself.
By Annette Buchanan
Inequity and justice are common threads among these realities.
By Ken Mosesian
Ken Mosesian compares the way it took a fire at Notre Dame to bring in money to fix its failing infrastructure, with the way it has taken a pandemic to bring attention to our broken healthcare system, our nursing homes, and more. We have the opportunity to rebuild new and better.
By Linda Buskirk
Linda Buskirk strikes a joyous note as she gives examples of creative communications throughout the Church in response to the pandemic. In our latest blog, she observes that “we’ve always done it that way” is no longer an excuse in these times.
By Ken Mosesian
In our latest blog, Ken Mosesian brings up questions to consider when thinking about how we should “re-start” the Church.
By Ken Howard
In the second of a series of blogs on keeping congregations connected during the Covid-19 crisis, Ken Howard reminds us that our actions can have huge consequences and that the people are the church, not the building.
By Alan Bentrup
In his blog, Evangelism, Connection, and Our New (Virtual) Reality, Alan Bentrup gives us suggestions on how to conduct church services now so that we reach the most people in the best ways possible.