Take up your cross

Everyday Mysteries With others she manages a website for the Diocese of Colorado highlighting congregations’ creative ministries:

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Spring training

by Emily A. Mellott Every year, early in January, certain dates imprint themselves on my consciousness: Ash Wednesday (this year, February 13), and the date

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Beloved

“Rejoice, barren woman, you who have not given birth. Break out with a shout, you who have not suffered labor pains; because the woman who has been deserted will have many more children than the woman who has a husband.”

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#Firstworldproblems

“Water Is Life” that humiliates whiners on Twitter who use the “#Firstworldproblems” hashtag to complain about life’s trivial challenges.

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Should dying churches be repurposed? Part 2

All Saints Church, Kings Heath, Birmingham UK, tore down the old rectory to create a town centre with elder care, medical care, a café and more. They took down the old stone walls that surrounded the churchyard and lay old gravestones flat to create a public square with a labyrinth, mosaics with images from every day life, quotations not of the church but compatible with it, and a simple fountain for kids to play in.

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