Lent: Living God’s Grace

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Below is a post from my substack. Please subscribe and follow my work there. Thank you.

Ash Wednesday is a holy day in the church calendar where many Christians around the world will fast and pray. It also marks the first day of Lent. Lent is the six and a half weeks before Easter which is a 40-day period for fasting and abstinence (Sundays are excluded). The 40 days is in imitation of Jesus Christ’s fasting in the wilderness. Christians around the world practice some sort of fasting during the season of Lent.

For Ash Wednesday, I would like to repost a piece I wrote for Huffington Post called, Lent: Living God’s Grace. I hope that on Ash Wednesday and every day, we can experience God’s grace and share that grace with others.

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Easter Sunday

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Christ is Risen, Easter, grace, Holy Week, Hope in Disarray, Jesus, Keep Hope Alive, keeping hope alive, Orbis Books, Pilgrim Press, resurrection, rev. jesse jackson, Santita Jackson, women

Easter is a special holy day for the church.

We recognize the pain of Good Friday’s crucifixion and then see the glory of Resurrection Sunday. The resurrection provides hope for all of us as many of us live in despair, pain, suffering and marginalization.

Easter gives us hope. Christ is Risen!

Mother Daughter Speak: Podcast

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Bringing Forth, co-write, daughter, Elisabeth Sophia Lee, Embracing the Other, grace, Mother Daughter Speak, motherhood, podcast, relationship, vulnerability

It was a big thrill to be interviewed with my daughter, Elisabeth Sophia Lee on our co-written book, Mother Daughter Speak for Bringing Forth Podcast with host Rachel Doll O’Mahoney.

I am so proud of my daughter who is a sophomore at Cornell University and is a writer, dancer and an amazing daughter. Please do read our book, Mother Daughter Speak.

Make Advent Great Again

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#MakeAdventGreatAgain is an oasis of sanity and support for holiday resistance and renewal.

Sign up now and join over 4000 people who have already joined this online community!

This community is curated by: John Pavlovitz – Tripp Fuller – Mike Morrell

I am very excited to be part of the #MakeAdventGreatAgain online community!

Lent: Living God’s Grace

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Ash Wednesday, Brian Williams, fact checking, god, grace, Lent, mercy, NBC Nightly News, The Huffington Post

Ash Wednesday is tomorrow February 18, 2015.

Here is my latest Huffington Post, Lent: Living God’s Grace.

We live in an age where people fact check everything we say and do. If we exaggerate or embellish, people are quick to point it out and we are summarily kicked to the curb. We see

Gary Dorrien: Economic Democracy Then and Now

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Barack Obama, Cornel West, Couillard Lecture, Craig Atwood, Democracy, Gary Dorrien, grace, Jewel Davis, kindom of God, Mitt Romney, Moravian Theological Seminary, Robbie Graves, Scott Kuykendall, Serene Jones, Steve Simmons

Drs. Gary Dorrien, Steve Simmons & Craig Atwood

Dr. Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University, and an ordained Episcopal priest. He is the author of 16 books and approximately 250 articles that range across the fields of ethics, social theory, theology, philosophy, politics, and history. A recent past president of the American Theological Society, Professor Dorrien has been described by Princeton University philosopher Cornel West as “the preeminent social ethicist in North America today.”