What to do when your beliefs are changing - Vince Brackett

Belief changes are normal and healthy (especially when going through upheaval, like, I don’t know, say... a global pandemic). Religious settings don’t often communicate safety to reconsider and re-examine beliefs about God, but the season of Lent encourages us to consider how “death and resurrection” is the shape of life and growth. What if that’s how we looked at the inevitable changes in belief we all undergo?

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Embracing Woundedness - Hayley Larson

No one goes through life unscathed. According to the Jesus tradition, not even God. (More than that, especially not God!) What a paradoxical but welcome message! God is not distant and removed from pain, God empathizes with us in our wounds. On this second Sunday of Lent, Hayley encourages us toward the healing in embracing our woundedness. (Art by Gloria Ssali)

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