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Fri, Feb 24 @ 5pm C3: COCKTAILS & CHRISTIAN CONVERSATIONS 

5pm • ZOOM Link and password required. Option: Bring your adult beverage and your curiosity for a conversation about our sacred texts. For more information about this study series: Podcast from BibleProject about the Lord’s Prayer: https://bibleproject.com/podcast/matthew-p10-lords-prayer/ The text is provided below Matthew 6:13 (NRSVUE)And do not bring us to the time of trial,[b] but […]

Lenten Reflection Day 3 (Feb 24): FASTING  (from Joel 2:12-17).

SONG: Fasting Song by James Ironshell: https://youtu.be/TLcqpegeI5o POEM: Jorie Graham: Fast (excerpt). Fast or starve. Too much. Or not enough. Or. Nothing else? QUOTE: Terry Pratchett: Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil … prayer, fasting, good works and so on.

Lenten Reflection Day 2 (Feb 23): RETURN (from Joel 2:12-17).

SONG: Return to Innocence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08 POEM: The Return (excerpt) by Ezra Pound. … See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back; These were the “Wing’d-with-Awe,” inviolable. QUOTE: JRR Tolkien: I sit beside the fire and think of […]

Lent Devotion Day 1 (Feb 22): ASH (from Isaiah 58: 1-12).

SONG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX11yw6YL1w&feature=youtu.be QUOTE: Cormac McCarthy: All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. POEM: Tahar Ben Jelloun. The Rising of the Ashes [Before] – excerpt: I pace the abyss. I descend. I am suspended. The ashes still […]

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