Lent has shifted from guilt-driven rituals to spiritual renewal, with prayer, good works and reflection. Benedictines also encourage reading a new book!
In this Year of the Snake, what old skins might need shedding for your personal renewal? The author notes he needs to shed racial prejudice and hostility to snakes.
John Dawson Rhodes pleaded guilty to stealing flags and damaging property at Veradale United Church of Christ. His actions were framed as a "prank," but the Rev. Gen Heywood doesn't agree.
Christi Ortiz writes a poem defining the experience of 'melting' and 'surrending' into God as the way we become holy. And holiness is giving us space for grace.
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Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.