On March 24th, 2024 (Palm Sunday), we hosted our first ever Artist’s Roundtable event. In this webinar, each of the 5 artists who created art for our “Wandering Heart” Lent series shares more about her process, inspiration, and medium. In the webinar, we also engaged with questions and responses in the chat.
Read MoreThe Seeking theme for Lent is particularly relevant to teenagers’ lives as they are navigating the change from childhood to adulthood. They are seeking friendship, meaning, romance, direction, belonging, purpose, autonomy, connection, and calm within the storm of rapid physical and social changes. This guide is written with youth ages 12-18 in mind, though many of the ideas and questions could be relevant for young adults as well.
Read MoreThis Lent marks our seventh year crafting art and resources inspired by the Revised Common Lectionary, which means we have a large inventory of materials to support you through the seasons of Lent and Easter. To save you time (and the hassle of searching your way through older resources in our shop), we thought we’d organize all we have to offer. Get your scrolling & clicking finger ready, because there’s a lot in here!
Read MoreOne of the most difficult things for me about moving to online worship platforms right now is losing the experience of singing together. Nothing can replicate the experience of singing together in one room. However, this is the kind of time where we need to sing—we need to sing our sorrows, we need to sing our hopes, and we need to sing the songs that comfort us and keep us grounded when everything is shifting around us.
Here are some of my observations about ways to lead and engage with congregational song.
Read MoreThis Lent marks our fourth year crafting art and resources inspired by the Revised Common lectionary, which means we have a large inventory of materials to support you through the seasons of Lent and Easter. To save you time (and the hassle of searching your way through older resources in our shop), we thought we’d organize all we have to offer. Get your scrolling & clicking finger ready, because there’s a lot in here!
Read MoreThis past Lent, our wholeheARTed guest for this week, Slats Toole, embarked on a daily spiritual practice of writing poems and then sharing them publicly via Facebook and social media. Each day, these poems broke beyond the noise and frenzy of social media to offer moments of truth so visceral it's as if you could feel them lift from the screen and come to life. So many of us were moved by these poems, as they arise from the personal, but point us toward the whole—of the journey of faith, of our identity in God, of life itself.
As a recent Princeton seminary grad, Slats shares their gifts widely through hymnody, preaching, poetry, and sound/theatrical design. They also work to resource and empower the Church at-large to break beyond the binary of gender in liturgy and worship.
Read MoreWe are NOT interested in selling products for mindless consumption. We create resources to empower you to get creative in your unique context.
We create so that YOU will create. Creativity begets creativity, after all.
But here's the thing: creativity is hard—especially when we do it alone. Because creativity is always better when shared, we're offering some ideas and thoughts for how to engage each of our resources for Lent.
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