Author: Kimberly Hope Belcher
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On the breaking of bread
It is, in fact, immensely difficult to break bread together.
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Teaching the Bible with liturgy
This semester I was teaching the first theology to two wonderful seminars at Notre Dame. We went bumpety-bump-bump through an incomplete but helpful set of tools for reading scripture critically, and managed a rough-and-ready historical overview that allowed them to at least place texts on a timeline and have a sense of what was happening…
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On the communal character of custom
What kind of community can “introduce” a liturgical custom, and how does the process look? A few notes from ritual studies that may help in understanding the wedding mandatum.
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Talking about the body
In a culture where sexuality is the basic way of thinking about embodied pleasure, how can we talk about the joy of doing the liturgy?
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Evangelical neo-liturgical conference
What does the liturgical movement look like in twenty-first century American Evangelicalism?
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How is your Easter?
Maintaining Easter for 50 days can be a challenge for us. How’s your Easter looking?
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Rachel Held Evans is blogging the lectionary
“I discovered this whole world of online collaboration happening among clergy from Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist, and Lutheran churches (and more!) all working through the same few passages…. This is exactly how the Bible is meant to be engaged—collaboratively, in community, with a diversity of people and perspectives represented.”
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Sacramental graduations and the religious education schedule
We wonder why youth don’t stick around after their confirmation…