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The Next Worship Leaders

The Next Worship Leaders Dan Wilt At the age of 10, I had the privilege of serving as an acolyte in my family’s small United Methodist Church. The acolyte is the cherubic little boy or girl that lights the candles on the altar with a

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The Church Is Not Anti-Empire: A Response

I am grateful for a newsletter I’ve chosen to regularly receive, called Inward/Outward, from Church Of The Savior in Washington, D.C. I deeply value their ethos, and it is generally shared here in our faith community in St. Stephen. It is a newsletter I highly

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Incarnation: An Advent And Christmas Responsive Reading

Here is a sample from our Advent/Christmas responsive reading for worshipping communities, called Incarnation. The full version, and fully designed PDF can be purchased here for printing (small fee), but this is a sample below. Hope my friends don’t mind if I ask for the

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Bearers Of Memory: The Worship Leading Vocation

Acts of worship (I’m specifically speaking now of worship through sacramental expression) are most fully about reclaiming memory. When we remember, we connect, we pray, we offer, we delight, we repent, we appreciate, we hope, we help. We all suffer from an amnesia, or loss

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