Tag: Spirituality

Keeping Lent

Ash Wednesday and Lent are coming in 2 weeks. What are your plans this year? 40 ways to keep a joyful, thankful, holy Lent: Lent

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Watts, Wesley and the hymns I have ‘by heart’

…we hear a lot about the problem of “classical music” just not being accessible to modern seekers. A challenge for me, and for those like me who have been formed in this hymnody, is to stay in touch with the deeper spirituality that is carried in the best of our hymn tradition, both in the music and the poetry – and perhaps to find new expressions of that spirituality.

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Spiritual AND Religious

by Rie Linton with Nancy Kern During my Ziglar’s pump parable than Jesus’ lost coin parable. We have got to have the vision to allow

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Why go to church?

… the older I get… – the more I feel that my faith is not primarily a personal thing but a way of sharing the common lot with everybody else.

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Chagall’s crucifixions

by Deirdre Good In preparation for this piece I asked FB friends what images the name Marc Chagall (1887-1985) conjured up for them. “Blue,” someone

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Keeping the experience of God alive

While the idea of God may be intuitively plausible — just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are atheists who have prayed for parking spots — belief can be brittle. Indeed, churches that rely on a relatively impersonal God (like mainstream Protestant denominations) have seen their congregations dwindle over the last 50 years.

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