Tag: community
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Dust to Dust Indeed
JILL CRAINSHAW — I used to think we face our mortalities and shortcomings when our foreheads are ash-smeared. This wisdom endures, but this year? I see both the fragility and wonder of human mortality in the eyes and actions of those whose shoe-dust mingles with mine along life’s myriad highways and byways.
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Brief Book Review: Why Can’t Church Be More Like An AA Meeting?
“The basic dynamics of AA meetings are set forth as those which could be utilized by Christian communities to encourage and continue to promote healthy community and interpersonal relationships.”
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Book Review: From Isolation to Community
“Werntz has provided a real gift in a time of not just isolation but suspicion and division.”
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Book Review: Community as Church, Church as Community
“A church is often one of the few places where we experience the gathering and sustaining of community…Community is not easily found anymore in our landscapes.”
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On Being Community
As a Church, it is our job to be the Body of Christ. Working at being community is part of our mission.
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All the Saints, All the Souls, and All of Us
Every day is a day of all the saints, all the souls, and all of us.
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Through a Glass, Dimly
COVID-19 Shaping Spiritual Communities COVID-19 dwells in the space between us. So we keep our distance. One nursing home in Cincinnati plans to use plexiglas to facilitate scheduled interactions for residents as the nation opens back up. Some people already visit their loved ones through windows. And Zoom meetings? How strange I have become to…
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Is a shared ecclesiology across the generations possible?
How can we be the Church together?