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By tbuegler on March 30, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

A Note from the Editorial Team…

Grace and peace! We have all been living in this “in between” time for the last year. It isn’t what it was, and it’s not what it will be, and […]

By tbuegler on March 30, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Offering Support for Pandemic Grief

by Joy Hensel On the Road to Emmaus  Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus about seven miles from Jerusalem and talking […]

By tbuegler on March 30, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Grief, Loss and Care Through a Pandemic

by Mark Jackson A few weeks into the pandemic, I received the call no youth leader wants to get: “One of our teens died in a car accident last night. […]

By tbuegler on March 30, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Hearing BIPOC Young People During Times of Crisis

An Interview with Rev. Priscilla Paris-Austin: Connect Journal: We’ve been living in a pandemic for over a year, accompanied by uprisings, protests, and heightened awareness of and actions against systemic […]

By tbuegler on March 28, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Hate Speech: Praying Against the Enemy in the Old Testament

by Dr. Michael Chan The Old Testament contains numerous poems in which people ask for help, protest their suffering and plead with God for intervention. Some of these poets even […]

By tbuegler on February 9, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

This I Know

by Rev. Angela T. Khabeb St. Francis of Assisi encourages Jesus followers to “wear this world like a loose garment.” These are wise words to live by, especially given the […]

By tbuegler on February 9, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Planting and Watering

by Dr. Scott Cormode Someday this pandemic will cease. Someday we will emerge from our sheltering in place. Someday our youth groups will meet again. What then? What do we […]

By tbuegler on February 9, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Navigating Through Change

by Kelly Sherman-Conroy “The only thing that is constant is change.” This is a quote from a Greek philosopher. I don’t think I need to quote a Greek philosopher for […]

By tbuegler on February 9, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Keys to the Church

by Rev. Kelly Chatman I was 5 years old when my parents moved our family from the segregated South to the industrial North. We were a part of what is […]

By tbuegler on February 9, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Holding Loosely

by Todd Buegler “Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.” – Genesis 6:22 It wasn’t in Noah’s plans.  The scriptures tell us that Noah was 600 years old […]

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