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Advent Hope is a Peculiar Kind of Hope by Rev. Dr. Rachael Keefe

November 28, 2022 By Rev. Dr. Rachael Keefe

It’s no secret that I am an ocean girl. As long as I can remember, the ocean has been my place of solace, renewal, and recentering. I love the beach in every season and when it is too long between visits, the yearning for salt air and sand between my toes deepens to a kind […]

Filed Under: Advent & Christmas, Church, Hope, Mental Health, Mental Health Network, UCC, United Church of Christ

Jesus Wept by Karl Shallowhorn

March 7, 2022 By Karl Shallowhorn

“Jesus wept” John 11:35 What is known as the shortest verse in the Bible is also the most profound. This simple sentence says so much about Jesus’ identification of being “in the flesh.” When I think about this verse, I am drawn to the questions about Christ’s boundless empathy for others. If there was someone […]

Filed Under: Bipolar Disorder, Church, Community, Hope, Mental Health, Mental Health Network, UCC, United Church of Christ

Gaudete by David Finnegan-Hosey

December 6, 2021 By David Finnegan-Hosey

How to talk about joy? How to talk about joy as someone whose Advent walk is always in the familiar company of anxiety and depression? How to talk about joy as someone who flinches at suggestions of forced jolliness, who has become hyper-aware of the tendency of churches to try to force positivity as a […]

Filed Under: Advent & Christmas, Church, clergy, Community, Holidays, Hope, Joy, Mental Health, Mental Health Network, UCC, United Church of Christ, worship

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