Thriving in the Middle of Your Trials
At the end of March, I traveled on a pilgrimage to El Salvador, walking in the footsteps of the martyrs. Along with my fellow pilgrims,
Category: faith formation
Practicing Everyday Pilgrimage
By Denise UtterVibrant Faith Coaching Team I get a little restless at the first signs of spring. I want to hike. I want to plan
Living Our Baptism, the Lenten Way
To thrive during the season of Lent, we remember our baptism and prepare for living it out. In baptism, we’re called into the three-fold ministry
A Cold Splash of Water for Your Personal Worship Time
We need new and creative ways to practice our personal worship during Lent—a bracing splash of water on the face of our familiar Lenten practices.
5 New-World Keys from Moses
To put an exclamation point on this series of posts related to our new 4th Soil Parenting Initiative, here’s a reflection that I wrote a
Lent is for Living
It’s Transfiguration Sunday as I write this, and after reading the gospel, my pastor told a story about Mother Teresa of Calcutta. On a long
Breathing New Life into Lenten Worship
For many of us, this is a tough season for worship planning. Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany are still close in our rearview mirror. And where
Midwinter Sabbath Rest
February is a dark, gray, slushy time of year in the Midwest. In my hometown Chicago, the days seem longer than they were in January,
Why Curiosity Matters Most
Jesus tells the respected and influential Jewish Pharisee Nicodemus that he must be “born again” to see the Kingdom of God (John 3)—there is no
Improvisation as a Core Leadership Skill
This Is Spinal Tap is the first of four films created by an improvisational acting company led by Christopher Guest. It’s a mock-documentary about a supposedly