Christian Formation
As sure as Santa Claus directed the crowds into Macy’s at the end of the Thanksgiving Day parade, we can expect to be swept up into the rush of the “the holidays.”
Zacchaeus and the many Saints we honor this day compel us to examine our lives, to see if our trajectory is leading us to more holy lives or farther away.
It is also important that the growth of congregations be not only numerical but also spiritual.
For most of my ministry, people have been wringing their hands about the decline of mainline churches.
Insights from a full day workshop on how to do Morning Prayer well so that a layperson led Morning Prayer can be a legitimate form of Sunday morning worship.
I’m starting to wonder if dusting off the original concept of the Sunday School might be one of the ways in which the we might find new and creative expressions of our faith in Christ.
Or maybe those encounters are God-moments, reminders that real people are really hurting and hoping out there, and that our presence and our pointing to Christ’s Good News are still very much needed – perhaps now, even more s…
In this series of videos, members of Trinity’s liturgical staff present descriptions of the significant days of Holy Week, the liturgies connected with them, and the reasons why they can be so personally meaningful.