Third Friday in Lent

For the season of Lent, we are taking a break from our usual Lingering Leaves posts in order to focus a bit more on contemplation. Each Friday we will offer a Visio Divina exploring a scripture and image that will help draw us into the Story of Christ’s Life, Death, & Resurrection. Journey with us…

Second Friday in Lent

For the season of Lent, we are taking a break from our usual Lingering Leaves posts in order to focus a bit more on contemplation. Each Friday we will offer a Visio Divina exploring a scripture and image that will help draw us into the Story of Christ’s Life, Death, & Resurrection. Journey with us…

First Friday in Lent

For the season of Lent, we are taking a break from our usual Lingering Leaves posts in order to focus a bit more on contemplation. Each Friday we will offer a Visio Divina exploring a scripture and image that will help draw us into the Story of Christ’s Life, Death, & Resurrection. Journey with us…

Lingering Leaves 2.28.14

Welcome to this week’s edition of Lingering Leaves – our most memorable posts from around the web. This week: missiology and small-town ministry, Legos and Christian perfection, women in ministry, power against pornography, and trusting the poor. The Church Rev. Jeremiah Gibbs explores the changing tide within evangelicalism of supporting women in ministry, on his…

Sanctifying Art: Part II

This post is the second part of our talk with artist/scholar Deborah Sokolove about her calling, the arts, the church, and her new book, Sanctifying Art, with which we will be hosting an online course this spring. Deborah is the Director of the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion and Associate Professor of Art and Worship at…

Lingering Leaves 2.21.14

Welcome to this week’s edition of Lingering Leaves – our most memorable posts from around the web. This week: lowering expectations in marriage, non-traditional students in higher ed, Jewish school in Germany, Islam in America, and “making space.” The Church Tim Keller, psychologists, the New York Times, and marital expectations – a nice post from…

Lingering Leaves 2.14.14

Welcome to this week’s edition of Lingering Leaves – our most memorable posts from around the web. This week: a UM advocate for the homeless; accessibility and art; excerpts from the first MAKERS conference; Olympics; love, and sin. The Church The United Methodist Reporter tells us about Ingrid McIntyre, a homeless advocate recently featured on…