
Speaking to the Soul: Getting Ready
There are only 22 days left in The Great Fifty. Are you ready for Pentecost?

There are only 22 days left in The Great Fifty. Are you ready for Pentecost?

by Linda Ryan “The man who cannot accept the possibility of complete, radical, personal failure in the carrying out of this Christian mission is
Many of us are a lot closer to “adultery” than we think.

Here is the challenge for Christian community in this time of fear and uncertainty. We are called to truly love one another. Do we companion one another as we grow deeper and deeper in relationship with the living God?
Today we can bring our whole selves, rather than some gender-restricted version of ourselves, to our ministries–just like Paul and his fellow apostles.

Might, at some point in our life, we have some sort of experience of reckoning, of those episodes of blindnesses to our own 21st century forms of idol worship
The way that leads to liberation for all people sometimes starts in oppressive circumstances. How can we start from wherever we are?

In what ways does the tradition comfort you to the exclusion of the mission?

Like many women of the Bible, she is like a footnote, a miracle with a name attached. Yet she is more than that; she is a woman, a disciple, and an inspiration.
Reading our first Scripture passage today is like taking an extra bath or shower, preparing us to live by God’s covenant.