Items tagged joy

• Building Community

  What does the Bible say about our responsibility to build community?

• What's going on?

  Are the Polyphonic Spree and Zwan part of a cultural trend?

• Under my skin

  A period of service in Haiti leaves a language arts teacher transformed.

• Afraid of becoming

  How do we stop from becoming the people we least desire to be?

• Confessions of weakness

  Investigating the root causes of the desire to escape illuminates a path for growth.

• The gift of laughter

  Is laughter even appropriate in a world with so much suffering?

• The Blind Boys' joyful telling

  A review of Go Tell it on the Mountain by The Blind Boys of Alabama.

• Holy laughter

  On how ?a merry heart doeth like a medicine.?

• Grandma

  On a loving example of acceptance and joy.

• The case for the quotidian

  On the value of the life?s mundane experiences.

• Hat-head

  What brings us to recognize the symptoms of prioritization in our lives?

• Into Esther

  A keynote address from Jubilee 2006 that takes a look at what one of the Old Testament's more obscure texts is speaking to us here and now.

• Merlino's cider

  On the unseen variables and pleasant surprises of life's road trips.

• A year of life in "the zoo"

  On the joys and challenges of living in Christian community.

• Acquire the Spirit of peace

  How would such a pursuit our families, our community, and our society at large?

• Hating my family

  The times, they are a changin’ in my family and yours.

• A progressive feast

  On a food journey and the resources that served as maps along the way.

• Tenebrae and the enactment of faith

  Rituals of Passion Week, discovered over a lifetime, can remind us of who we are, who Christ is.

• How did we get here?

  Reflecting on political divisiveness after a rally for Barack Obama.