Six New Things – Transfiguration to Easter Special

To not overwhelm this week's Six New Things, it feels wise to separate out these seasonally specific resources. Please find a more general/comprehensive Six New Things for this week here. Global and national events will rightfully inform…

Six New Things – Week of February 24, 2025

In the midst of continuing chaos and deep concern, love, justice, and belonging are essential good medicine for all of God's Beloved Children. Soak them up. Share them. Be renewed. Be renewing. To not overwhelm this week's Six New Things,…

PRACTICE NEIGHBOR-LOVE

This Great Idea is based on numerous stories found in Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda's Building a Moral Economy: Pathways for People of Courage (Fortress, 2024) and recent calls to action. In Building a Moral Economy, Dr. Moe-Lobeda invites us to…
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Creative Church Campus Uses

Thanks to Rev. Anna Golladay at Convergence for sharing this list of helpful and hopeful Great Ideas in her Convergence Weekly post. Rev. Golladay is a consultant for Convergence who regularly helps congregations reimagine what their buildings…

Six New Things – Week of February 10, 2025

The world is erupting. Where to find healing? Black history - and global history - provide wisdom and perspective. ONE Black History Month could not be more crucially timed: there is so much we need to learn and understand from the history…

What to Do? Keep Hope Alive.

This is more of pool of Great Ideas, compiled from two different Substack posts. Thanks to Garrett Bucks at The White Pages for Thirty Lonely but Beautiful Actions You Can Take Right Now Which Probably Won't Magically Catalyze a Mass Movement…

Join – Or Die!

With deep gratitude to the always inspiring and empowering Diana Butler Bass (If you haven't subscribed to her substack, The Cottage, now is a good time to do so!) for sharing this Great Idea. Butler Bass writes, 'Learn and Be Inspired “Join…

Community Closet

Thanks to the Presbytery of Minnesota Valleys for sharing this Great Idea in The Valley Bridge. Here's the Great Idea, verbatim: 'Exciting news: We have undergone a big transition in the use of space this winter. After hosting Family Promise…

From ‘Fixing’ to ‘Discerning’

With gratitude to Church Anew for reposting Rev. Jason Gant's post in Share Church, I offer these two [maybe/possibly?] Great Ideas with significant reluctance. They feel rather 'business as usual', as though the church is somehow removed from…

Solar Solutions

Thanks to St Paul Area Synod Care of Creation Team member Vernita Kennen for sharing this Great Idea from the Lutheran World Federation. Here is a story of hope, inspiration, and vision! When the church becomes a public witness for healing…