Hayley Larson reflects for us after our annual take on the traditional Anglican Christmas Carols Service.
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A specific prayer practice some at BLC find extremely helpful is Emmanuel Prayer. It involves accessing our memories to help us connect with the God who is always with us (Emmanuel means "God with us", and is a name for God we return to often during Advent). Vince interview BLC's Anna Cruz about her experience.
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The season of Advent in the church calendar encourages us to annually come back to the theme of "waiting", suggesting how core it is to learn to "wait well" in order to "live well". Hayley and Vince unpack some helpful and some harmful spiritual perspectives on waiting they've encountered (and perhaps you have too?)
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We ring in the first Sunday of Advent 2021 with our first visit of the year to some of our favorite Carols, and a look at the song of Mary from Luke 1, according to the First Nations Version of the English New Testament.
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Once a year we set aside a Sunday to remember and grieve loved ones lost by people in our community. Grief is complicated and frustrating, and yet, if honored and treated with respect, it can often be a place people discover God to be a God of Comfort.
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Special guest and old friend of BLC Kristen Daly-Mosier unpacks three movements the Jesus tradition encourages us to make as a capitalistic, materialistic, colonizing culture: (1) From "stewardship" to "solidarity", (2) From "uses" to "gifts", (3) From "classification" to "revelation".
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Vince tells the story of the first 8 years of BLC in a way he never has before
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Vince passes on a reflection on prayer as partnership from writer and pastor Libby Tedder Hugus, jumping off of Jesus' teaching that the Kingdom of Heaven is like the yeast a woman used in making bread.
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Vince interviews special guest and friend of BLC Natasha Huang about being a chaplain, and the ways we all can learn from chaplains for the benefit of our relationships and interactions and community.
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Whether it’s from the self-help industry or Christian messaging, toxically simple takes on “how to rest & recharge” or on “the three steps to a (fill in the blank) life” abound. Hayley helps us scour the Jesus tradition for more realistic and helpful outlooks on life.
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