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The Place of Humans in Worship Life: Chapters 7-8 of Joan Chittister’s “The...
By Stacey Gleddiesmith To be honest (and the ninth commandment states that I should be), these two chapters are my least favourite thus far. Chapter 7 does, however, bring up some interesting...
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Chapters 9 & 10: Let’s start at the very beginning…
By Andrea Tisher Advent. The beginning of the liturgical calendar. The darkness into which the light will dawn. The waiting. The anticipation. But it’s more complicated than that. It’s a time of...
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Joy Is Not the Opposite of Pain
Have you ever wondered what the opposite of pain is? If you type the question in to the wonderful world of Google, you will read a variety of answers including: pleasure, getting high, bliss, good...
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Ch. 18: Ash Wednesday and the Voices of Lent
by Andrea Tisher Today we enter into the season of Lent (and so skip ahead to chapter 18). Ash Wednesday stands as a gateway into the season that calls us to follow Jesus, and to follow Jesus with all...
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Rant 2: The So-called “Worship Wars”
While teaching a class at Trinity Western University, I gave what I thought was a brilliant lecture in which I explored the arguments of Barth and his contemporaries, and the “God is dead” theologians...
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I Hate Fasting: Chapter 17 of Joan Chittister’s “The Liturgical Year”
I hate fasting. I hate not being able to eat what I want when I want it. I especially hate not being able to eat chocolate when it is desperately needed. My decision to follow the liturgical year has...
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Paschaltide: The Days of Pentecost (Chapter 27 of Joan Chittister’s The...
by Andrea Tisher So much of life is lived as one event after another. We anticipate and over-expect and then pick apart all the ways the event did (or mostly didn’t?) live up to our expectations. And...
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Rant 3: No I don’t Want to Take the “I” out of Worship
A common complaint about recent worship music is that there is far too much focus on the first person (on the individual), and not enough focus on God, or on the community in which we worship....
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Silencing Worship (Q&A)
Q: Corrie Gustafson asked me to reflect on silence as worship, silence in worship, and why we aren’t so good at it. I started taking Suzuki piano lessons when I was four years old: a method that...
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Have an Uncomfortable New Year: chapters 1-2 of Joan Chittister’s “The...
By Stacey Gleddiesmith As you know, I celebrated New Year’s Day on November 27th this year, having decided to practice the liturgical cycle in a conscious and considered fashion (at least once in my...
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