Daniel Matthews brings our third week of Lent meditation...

http://www.explorefaith.org/lent03/week3.html

Free Online Courses from Top Flight Schools....Ministerial Formation?

Courses:

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I think it is just amazing what educational opportunities one can find online!  Does anyone know of a site that aggregates ministerial training and formation resources?  If so, please let me know.  ckutzmarks@ucc-austin.org

John Claypool brings our second week of Lent meditation...
http://www.explorefaith.org/lent03/week2.html

Marcus Borg offers reflections on our first week in the Lenten journey for 2013

http://www.explorefaith.org/lent03/week1.html

The Science of Heaven - Newsweek and The Daily Beast

The Science of Heaven - Newsweek and The Daily Beast:

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Fascinating....

On the Road

As we ready for the coming of the Christ, hear these words of a pilgrim....

"Some of us walk into Advent tethered to our unresolved yesterdays, the pain still stabbing, the hurt still throbbing.  It's not that we don't know better; it's just that we can't stand up anymore by ourselves.  On the way to Bethlehem, will you give us a hand?""

(Ann Weems in Kneeling in Bethlehem)

Reformation Sunday

With Reformation Sunday coming in just a few days, the following saying by Nelson Mandela really hits the spirit of the celebration.

Witness, also, the ground breaking Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification a document created, and agreed to, by the Catholic Church's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Lutheran World Federation in 1999, as a result of extensive ecumenical dialogue. It states that the churches now share "a common understanding of our justification by God's grace through faith in Christ," one that brings together the Protestant affirmation of the primacy of faith and the Catholic affirmation that good works demonstrates that faith.  To the parties involved, this essentially resolves the conflict over the nature of justification which was at the root of the Protestant Reformation.

See it at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Declaration_on_the_Doctrine_of_Justification