This year, Lent has felt especially heavy. Violent conflict is tearing at the seams of our global family. Ideological differences and dehumanizing rhetoric threaten our relationships. A very natural response is to reach for power in order to protect ourselves, our sense of certainty, and our …
The U Curve
What if we have been looking at most of our formation upside down? Most of the bell curves we use to describe the life cycle of an organization, church, non-profit, or business start with birth, move upward through growth and maturity, hit a peak in plateau or stability, and then begin to descend …
Shame and Reconciliation: Where Are You Really From?
We are excited to partner with CCDA Org Member Arrabon for their six-week Lent Devotional series. In the midst of a world marked by disorientation, division, and pain, this devotional will guide you along the path toward reconciliation and healing. Each week, you’ll be led through prayer …
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A Lenten Call to Return to Jesus
Faith leaders unite across traditions to advocate for justice, compassion, and the vulnerable. As the sacred season of Lent begins, over 100 national faith leaders from diverse Christian traditions have issued a powerful call to return to the teachings of Jesus in a time of deepening moral and …
Holy Week Devotionals 2024
This year, Lent has felt especially heavy. Violent conflict is tearing at the seams of our global family. Ideological difference and dehumanizing rhetoric exacerbated by an election season again threatens our relationships. A very natural response is to reach for power in order to protect ourselves, …
The Radical Practice of Foot Washing: What it Teaches Us about God & Community
My name is Joshua Brockway, and I serve as the director for spiritual formation for the Church of the Brethren. We're a denomination rooted in the radical reformation and fit somewhere between Anabaptists (Mennonites) and Pietists (Quakers or the Covenant Church). We are often called one of the …
When He Calls You By Name, an Easter Reflection
by Rev. Christine Youn Hung He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” Thinking he was the gardener, [Mary] said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.” (Jn 20:15) Imagine Mary’s bone-tired weariness during the days leading to and following …
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A Never-ending, Multilayered Lent
By Dr. Sunny Sue Chang Jonas and Mrs. Ruth Cleghorn Lent. Can we begin by acknowledging the irony of a liturgical season that emphasizes longing and a waiting for the triumph of resurrection, “...at such a time as this” (Esther 4:14)? I recently was deeply blessed by a Lenten reflection …
