Four Ways to Guide Children through Grief
By Dr. Robin Turner | | Children, Church Life | children, grief, loss
Most people, adults included, need some guidance on how to grieve. Walking with children through difficult subjects and painful experiences often reveals an adult’s unanswered questions or insecurities. Questions like “Why did God let this happen?” and “Doesn’t God love me?” swell up while emotions churn. As parents, it’s tempting to focus on managing emotions and behaviors rather than helping children work through their grief. Here are four tips to help with that process.
Guests at his Table
By David Belt | | Church Life, Sacraments, Three Streams | Communion, Eucharist
The invitation to the Table begins with God. Communion is the divine meal that the Lord Jesus himself has prepared for us. He is the host and we are his guests.
A Call to Holy Orders
By Guest | | Church Life, Personal Story | Deacon, ordination
My long and seemingly impossible journey began as a person no one suspected of having a role in ministry.
Worship through Movement
By Guest | | Church Life, Prayer, Spiritual Growth | prayer, Worship
By Ruthie Buescher, Communications Coordinator for Grace Northridge Anglican Church Participants are sitting crossed-legged, some kneeling. A few are lying down on their backs or sides. One is standing, swaying a bit from side to side. Silence reigns, broken only by the occasional deep breath or cleared throat. This is a movement and prayer workshop,…
Slow to Speak, Quick to Listen: Learning Christian Conversation Through Hospitality
By Chris+ Myers | | Church Life, Spiritual Growth | conversation, discussions, hospitality
As we were planning the ministry year we believed that we needed some kind of space where we could not only have conversation around important but controversial topics, but also where we could learn how to have those kinds of conversations. It was not enough to have difficult conversations; we wanted to provide people with the tools to have those conversations in distinctly Christian ways.
Ordinary Time: Industrial or Agricultural?
By Scott+ Davis | | Church Life, Prayer, Spiritual Growth | liturgical seasons, Ordinary Time
Ordinary Time is that slow, maturing growth time when Jesus shows us our hearts and within them, the wheat and tares that grow therein. During these times in our Christian development, when we think that we are growing worse rather than better, it may well be that we are, instead, about to experience a harvest.
Quiet Days
By Guest | | Church Life, Prayer | prayer, rest, Sabbath, soaking prayer
Quiet Days are all about focusing on the love of God and receiving. We come into the presence of God in a posture of receiving, attuning our hearts to the heart of the Father and silencing the noise that drowns out the voice of the Good Shepherd.
The Church and Psychology: A Lesson from History
By Nathaniel Strenger | | Church Life | mental health
If church and mental health are to cooperate, they will only do so through real-life, flesh-and-blood networks.
Those Who Have Seen His Glory
By Guy Delcambre | | Church Calendar, Church Life | Christmas, Christmastide, Nativity
Today, there are more than 110 international armed conflicts that are regularly monitored: more than 45 armed conflicts in the Middle East and Northern Africa, more than 35 armed conflicts across Africa, 21 armed conflicts in Asia, seven armed conflicts across Europe and six armed conflicts throughout Latin America. Some belong to recent history while…
The Counter-Cultural Liturgy of Confirmation
By Dustin+ Messer | | Church Life, Sacraments | Confirmation, Sacraments
Confirmation Sunday is one the most counter-cultural liturgies we have. It’s one that reminds us of the object of our worship: God.