Feb 27, 2022 |
Amidst struggles and challenges, on-going illness and exhaustion, uncertainties and longings for normalcy, the Advocate turns an eye toward kindness and neighborliness as acts of justice and change. Inspired by the marking of Mr. Rogers Day on March 20, we explore...
Feb 14, 2022 |
The long-awaited 50th (plus one) anniversary celebration of APCE took place in Chicago and online this past week – and it was a grand event! Inspiring and challenging worship. Innovative and educational workshops. Insightful plenary gatherings. Reunions with good...
Feb 6, 2022 |
These past few weeks the Advocate has been reflecting on Lent. If you missed out reading any of these articles, or just want to revisit a thought or idea one more time, here are the first few lines for each posting with links attached to the titles that will that will...
Feb 1, 2022
Join us for the launch of the newly designed and reimagined training website of Opening Doors to Discipleship! We will walk through the site, talk about who might use the site and answer any questions What is Opening Doors to Discipleship? Opening Doors to...
Jan 30, 2022 |
Prayer stations offer a practical idea for the Lenten season, with a focus on raising awareness of a number of social justice issues and hospitality. These themes and messages accompany us on a Lenten journey. The original “Interactive Prayer Stations on Lent &...
Jan 23, 2022 |
by Tori Smit It was a Good Friday service I will never forget. I was perhaps eight or nine years old and since children in my church rarely joined the adults in the sanctuary for any part of worship going to worship on Good Friday was a very big deal for me. I wanted...
Jan 18, 2022
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Jan 16, 2022 |
by Rev. Dr. Patricia Dutcher-Walls Isaiah 43:14-21 Using words that resound with hope in the face of suffering and uncertainty, Isaiah 43 is one of this year’s lectionary texts for Lent. Reading this poetry with an eye to its themes and poetic beauty can...
Jan 9, 2022 |
Martha Bettis Gee, APCE Historian Lately it occurs to me, what a long, strange trip it’s been. . . For many of us of a certain age, these words have a nostalgic resonance. We recognize them as the concluding words of the refrain of the Grateful Dead song, “Truckin.” ...
Dec 20, 2021 |
By James Monroe Potts I knew it would happen. It happens every year. I can see and feel it coming like a storm rushing toward me. And every year, it’s as if I am transported back to that time when it all began. During my second year of seminary, I was doing my field...
