Lent Prayer Resources
Lent Prayer Resources Lent is often a time when people take intentional action by giving something up (fasting) or taking on a new practice. This is intended [...]
February 2021
Listening in Lent: Invitation to our Lenten Book Study
Listening in Lent: Invitation to our Lenten Book Study By Matthew W. Humphrey, Director of Theological Education Just after his baptism in the river Jordan, Jesus went [...]
Guest Reflection: Cedars by Jolene Nolte
Since I was a teenager, I’ve had the instinct to hug trees. I was conscious of “tree-hugger” as a derogative term for environmentalists, and while this made the act feel [...]
Guest Reflection: Mid-Autumn Maple by Jolene Nolte
“Stand Erect in Your Sorrow” —Henri Nouwen I live at its roots, a thick-trunked maple I see out my basement window, whose branches arc like a canopy over me while [...]
Guest Reflection: Backyard Pear Tree by Jolene Nolte
Nearly every day for the past four years, one of my first acts when I stumble out of bed each morning is to pull aside the ochre curtain of my [...]