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By Kristyn Komarnicki
Love in the midst of discomfort
Love your God, love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the prophets rest on these two commands…
Leap of Faith is a full-length documentary from Nicholas Ma and Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) featuring pastors who commit to meeting for a year to look for a path to unity in the midst of polarized times.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
Just before Memorial Day weekend, President Trump called for the opening of churches and other houses of worship. And much as I long to be able to attend church again, that made my heart sink.
Featuring Francesca Nuzzolese
Leading Your Church through Grief and Loss from Evangelicals for Social Action on Vimeo.
Accompanying individuals and congregations in the process of grief and bereavement is one of the most important dimensions of pastoral ministry.
From: “A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer” by Kenji Kuramitsu
A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer, from which this prayer is taken, is now available electronically!
By Craig Wong
In a recent conversation among leaders of the church, a pastor offered an observation that has stayed with me. The topic of our conversation was about preaching resurrection hope amid a pandemic.
Compiled by Kaitlin Curtice
In a time where we are asking how to be better connected, I want to suggest 10 books by Indigenous authors that will help ground us to the land
Speakers: Bethany, Henry, and Peter
Meet three Jesus followers who are living a vocation of celibacy.
By Rev. Margaret Ernst
Dedicated to Jan Richardson, in gratitude for her book The Cure for Sorrow: A Book of Blessings for Times of Grief
save this blessing for when you most need it.
By Kelley Nikondeha
Pharaoh’s daughter was not the only one to see small bodies washed ashore. We have seen them too.
Born into privilege, Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah* was nursed on narratives of Egyptian greatness.
By Elrena Evans
Originally published Mar 1, 2017
The alarm clock rings early, and I am still asleep when it rings—an oddity, for an erstwhile early riser. But I am full from stacks of pancakes and fastnachts consumed last night at our church’s Shrove Tuesday celebration, and the surfeit of starch makes me sleepy.
By Stephen Mattson
Our faith shouldn’t be co-opted by partisan politics. Our hope shouldn’t replace wisdom and prudence.
By Deborah Watson
Dust gets a bad rap. We chase it out of our homes, or we think we should. So why a meditation on the benefits of dust? Even in the Bible, of the 100 references to “dust,” almost all of them are negative.
By Micky ScottBey Jones
After the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, I was forever changed. Nothing could remain the same—not my mothering, not my relationships, not my faith. I needed more than The Power of a Praying Wife.
Speakers: Tom & Eufemio and Patti & Sue
A conversation with two same-sex married couples who love Jesus
By Dorothy Thompson
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
By Katie Hays
For almost two decades I served small, traditional congregations where heteronormativity was the unspoken rule. In those churches we were attentive to our ethic of hospitality: How can we be more welcoming to them, the people who are our guests?
Compiled by Kristyn Komarnicki and OTL alumni
Like loving dialogue, like the Holy Spirit, music has the ability to connect people across deep differences. While the music we cherish is deeply personal, and we don’t all enjoy the same kinds, it can still provide a window for us to access and start to understand each other’s deepest loves and longings.Below are listed a handful songs that I associate strongly with the OTL experience.
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