Thursday, February 3 marks the beginning of the Chinese New Year, the year of the rabbit in 2011. The date is determined by the movements of both the moon and sun, while the January 1 calendar new year is determined only by the sun’s winter solstice.
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Biblical storytelling is more than just “telling the story.” It is a discipline in which the storyteller takes a passage from the Bible, studies and reflects on that passage, and then tells it in a way so that the hearers may best connect with the story as well.
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More blogs that can inform and support you in your Christian formation ministries.
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“Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.” William Blake
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Christians and the churches to which they belong need to engage with the Bible in a way that gives them a place to stand in their lives and their faith in the midst of “the power of nation states, the reductionisms of scientism and in the capricious power of the marketplace.” Walter Brueggemann
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We all know that mainline denominations have seen dramatic and continual declines in attendance. Not only do fewer people go to church, but of those that do, they now go less often.
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“And when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord.” (Luke 2:22-40)
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I was in our local grocery store around lunch time recently and witnessed someone shoplifting. There was no doubt about it. Two young men were in the candy aisle and one lifted a bag of chocolate of some kind and then I thought I saw him tuck it into his sweatshirt but I couldn’t be sure.
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Everyday there seems to be a new resource, new blog, or new website to discover and explore for supporting the ministry of Christian formation. Building Faith is happy to be part of this new and expanding world!
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We are living in a VUCA world. That’s futurist speak for an environment of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity.
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It is said that when Mother Teresa asked what she says to God when she prays, she answered, “I don’t say anything, I listen.” The interviewer then asked what God says to her. She replied, “He listens.” Mother Teresa’s answer reflects the knowledge that God was with her at all times. Creating a home that reminds a family of God’s presence can be challenging for those of us for which the language of faith doesn’t come easily, at least outside of Sunday liturgy.
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An American Muslim, Patel is a leading speaker, writer, and thinker on American religious pluralism. At a recent conference of educators, he suggested that the religious pluralism of today’s United States is a rich and as yet untapped source of social capital that can strengthen democracy, build community, bring people of many faiths together for the common good, and advance the American principle of freedom of religion.
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