Lenten Reflection: Sunday of the Passion, Palm Sunday
When we are uncaring, when we lack compassion, when we are unforgiving, we will always pay the price for it. It is not, however, we alone...
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The Rev. Arianne Rice
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Lenten Reflection: Saturday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against thee in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left...
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The Rev. Arianne Rice
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Lenten Reflection: Friday in the Fifth Week of Lent
As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer...
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The Rev. Arianne Rice
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Lenten Reflection: Thursday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Jesus said, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with...
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Mabeth Hudson
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Lenten Reflection: Wednesday in the Fifth Week of Lent
“Spiritual practice is about opening our hearts even more.” (From my journal, June 14, 2020) I don’t know where that quote is from, but I...
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The Rev. Arianne Rice
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Lenten Reflection: Tuesday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Grandfather Great Spirit All over the world the faces of living ones are alike. With tenderness they have come up out of the ground Look...
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Jeanne Owings
- Feb 16, 2021
- 3 min
Lenten Reflection: Monday in the Fifth Week of Lent
In the book Jesus and the Disinherited, Howard Thurman writes of a trip he took to India. The leader in India asked him how he could be a...
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lrohrs
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Lenten Reflection: Fifth Sunday in Lent
O God of grace and glory, we remember before you this day all those who have died in the past year. We thank you for giving them to us,...
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The Rev. Arianne Rice
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Lenten Reflection: Saturday in the Fourth Week of Lent
"Racist” is not… a pejorative. It is not the worst word in the English language; it is not the equivalent of a slur. It is descriptive,...
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The Rev. Arianne Rice
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Lenten Reflection: Friday in the Fourth Week of Lent
But the end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community. It is this type of spirit and...
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Bill Nesbitt
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Lenten Reflection: Thursday in the Fourth Week of Lent
I grew up in the 60s and 70s in suburban Baltimore. I was blessed to have the means to attend great schools, live in comfortable homes,...
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The Rev. Arianne Rice
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Lenten Reflection: Wednesday in the Fourth Week of Lent
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not...
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The Rev. Arianne Rice
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Lenten Reflection: Tuesday in the Fourth Week of Lent
See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation. (2 Corinthians 6:2) I pray that you see with the eyes of your heart...
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The Rev. Arianne Rice
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Lenten Reflection: Monday in the Fourth Week of Lent
Caged Bird A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays...
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Ginny Barnhart
- Feb 16, 2021
- 3 min
Lenten Reflection: Fourth Sunday in Lent
One of the books we read during our “Sacred Ground” course was Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited. Thurman’s other writings have...
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The Rev. Arianne Rice
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Lenten Reflection: Saturday in the Third Week of Lent
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any...
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The Rev. Arianne Rice
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Lenten Reflection: Friday in the Third Week of Lent
Excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, April 16, 1963: “Perhaps I have once again been too optimistic....
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The Rev. Arianne Rice
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Lenten Reflection: Thursday in the Third Week of Lent
“Trauma in a person, decontextualized over time, looks like personality. Trauma in a family, decontextualized over time, looks like...
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Hillary Zouck Shaffer
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Lenten Reflection: Wednesday in the Third Week of Lent
“But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind...
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The Rev. Arianne Rice
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Lenten Reflection: Tuesday in the Third Week of Lent
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the...
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