Welcome to this week’s edition of Lingering Leaves – our most memorable posts from around the web. This week: True Love (doesn’t?) Wait, Mid-Year Moves in the UMC, Social Holiness, Iconoclasm, and the World’s Everyday Heroes.
The Church
United Methodist Pastor Christy Thomas shares five advantages to a mid-year move as a UM pastor, on her blog, ThoughtfulPastor.
The Cardiphonia blog shares loads of musical, liturgical, and artistic resources to shape our congregations’ participation in the Story of God – check them out.
The Academy
Art historian Anna Marazuela Kim explores why iconoclasm still matters to the church today, on Duke’s Faith & Leadership blog.
The World
CNN shares it’s top ten “everyday heroes” of 2013, from around the world. Some inspiring news in the midst of world difficulties.
The Culture
John Blake reports on CNN’s Belief Blog, that more often than not, young Christians are abandoning commitments to wait until marriage for sex.
The Kingdom
Andrew Dragos shares a dream of Social Holiness on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, on Seedbed.
