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We Dream a Frame — Prayers for A Way Forward Continue
We dream a frame that can contain a picture that is us. Our self-constructed models are too dangerous, spindly, fragile. They break and injure when we try to force the glass. We’ve made them far too large. We need a frame the size of a child, a gift, a cherished one, which You alone can →
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For a Way Beyond Our Walls – Prayers for a Way Forward Continue
The Virginia Conference leadership in the global prayer cycle for the United Methodist Church’s Commission on a Way Forward and for unity continues… Prayer for April 3 Conference Day of Prayer In a season of discernment, as your Church, in which we have met you, meets across divides, as a Commission confers on A Way →
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A Prayer for a Way Forward by Bishop Sharma Lewis
This week the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church will be taking the lead in a denomination-wide week of prayer for A Way Forward. I’ll be sharing some of the conference prayer resources for the week, some of which came out of my Thousand Prayers for Unity Project. As the commission helps us deal →
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You’ve Got the Wrong Enemies
One of the most distressing things about the Great Divide, as we’ve come to call the chasm separating us in so many arenas, is the way we seem compelled to create an enemy out of our opponents. I know that I am getting sucked in to an argument with more heat than light when I →