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Creating a new Lenten tradition

Posted February 20th, 2022

Creating a Lenten “wreath” adapts the practice of lighting an Advent wreath and deepen one’s journey to the Good Friday cross.

Presbyterians Today’s Advent devotional extended through Christmastide

Posted November 11th, 2020

In his poem “I Will Light Candles This Christmas,” Howard Thurman talks about illuminating the world with more than just wax-dipped wicks flickering with yellow flames. Rather, the light the theologian and civil rights leader envisions burning brightly is the light of Christ shining through us — the light that dashes away sadness with joy, replaces fear with courage and banishes despair with hope.