The Third Week of Lent 2025 Waiting on the World to Change
In exploring this week’s “W” of Lent—Waiting—Diana Butler Bass* paraphrases Luke 13:1-9 this way:
Jesus said, “The Kingdom of God is like a vineyard of young trees. A wicked ruler seized the land and tried to cut down all the trees because they were not profitable. They added no treasure to his stores; he was eager for the wealth the land would produce. But the faithful gardeners refused to wield the ax. Instead, they protected the trees, enriched the land, and trusted the trees would bear fruit. The Kingdom of God is like that — a vineyard worked with patience and manure.”
The Second Week of Lent 2025 A Fox in the Henhouse
On the Second Sunday of Lent, we hear how Jesus was warned that Herod Antipas was out to get him. He was advised to run away and hide, to stay safe. His response? “You tell that old fox I am doing the work I’m called to do and I’ll go wherever God wants me to go.”
A Lent of Wellbeing and Witness
Last week, on Ash Wednesday, we introduced you to an idea that Episcopal (not Lutheran!) theologian and author, Diana Butler Bass had: to observe Lent differently this year.
Advent 2024 – Saints of the Season – Joseph the Silent Saint
Don’t you just love the weekly radio show, “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” the NPR news quiz? One holiday season a few years ago, Peter Sagal, the host, posed this question to panelist Tom Bodett, “People are always looking at predictors for kids to see how they’re going to fare later in life. Well, one new study out of the U.K. shows that a surprisingly reliable predictor is what your child did – what role they had—in what common childhood activity?”
Saints of the Season
Advent has begun again—that season of expectation when we anticipate the arrival of “God-with-skin-on,” the Christ child lying in a manger, asleep on the hay. Everything is about the big countdown—in church, we count the weeks: 1st week of Advent, 2nd
Interfaith Prayer Service
Commemorating the Anniversary of the Lewiston Mass Shooting
Tuesday, October 1, 10am, in Augusta
MCC’s Spring 2024 Newsletter
MCC’s Spring 2024 Newsletter
Whether you read the print edition that arrives in your mailbox, or the digital version available through the link, you’ll see that we let our work speak for itself through our newsletter.
You can’t get to Easter without walking through a graveyard
Though some say that Christians treat death as if it were just a simple freeing of the soul from the prison of the body, a quick transition to blissful immortality, because they believe Easter gives them some kind of cosmic “get out of jail free” card that spares true believers from the sting of death, nothing could be further from the truth.
