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Choosing Simple Spiritual Practice for Lent
By Althea Jerome Each year, toward the beginning of Lent, I recall friends, and years, when it was customary for people whom I know to “give up” something for lent. While I have tried this practice...
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Making Room for Alleluias: A New Kind of Lenten Fast 2024
By Rev. Eugenia A. Gamble Throughout the centuries of the church’s common life it has been a common practice during the forty days plus Sundays leading up to Easter Day for the faithful to ‘give up...
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Festival of Choirs
Idlewild Presbyterian Church is excited to partner with the Presbyterian Association of Musicians in hosting the Mid-South Festival of Choirs! This event is open to any and all singers in local church...
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PC(U.S.A) Launches New Israel-Palestine Resource Page
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has a new online landing page that will allow users to engage with the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict more easily using digital resources. The single...
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Prepare the Way of the Lord! Advent Daily Devotions
By Rev. Eugenia A. Gamble   Prepare! Arise! Shine! Your Light Comes!   Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the contrast between light and darkness, love and hate, beauty and despair as clearly defined...
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Preparing the Way for the Synod of Living Waters
Gregory A. Goodwiller, Synod Executive   I have devoted a good bit of my vocational life to the development and implementation of policies, procedures, bylaws, and rules. That kind of work has always...
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Prepare the Way - Interim/Transitional Ministry
By Rev. James Gale   It feels like the last couple of years have given interim ministry a bad name.  Everywhere I turn, there are articles about how interim ministry has lost its way or conversations...