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The Upper Room Disciplines provides an opportunity to look more deeply at scripture by offering a week of devotions by a single author on a particular theme.

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Learning to Walk in the Way of Love - March 17, 2024

March 17, 2024

Perhaps the greatest gift teachers can offer their students is their own love for the subject they aim to teach. Details matter, and there are pedagogical devices that set some teachers...

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Learning to Walk in the Way of Love - March 16, 2024

March 16, 2024

For Florence Jordan, a White woman who grew up in early 20th-century Kentucky, Jesus was someone she learned about in Sunday School—the Son of God whom everyone she knew honored. But...

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Learning to Walk in the Way of Love - March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024

John’s Gospel opens with a proclamation that would have shocked any of its original audience: “We have seen [God’s] glory,” John says (1:14). But this is impossible! No one can see...

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Learning to Walk in the Way of Love - March 14, 2024

March 14, 2024

Lent’s practices of penance have parallels in the monastic vocation. Fasting, prayer, and almsgiving are ways of practicing the poverty, chastity, and obedience that monks and nuns take on as a...

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Learning to Walk in the Way of Love - March 13, 2024

March 13, 2024

The work of repentance can seem burdensome, but its true aim is joy. Martin Luther King, Jr. did not go to Montgomery, Alabama, to lead the civil rights movement. A graduate...

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Learning to Walk in the Way of Love - March 12, 2024

March 12, 2024

Shame is the feeling that comes from believing, whether we admit it or not, that we really aren’t worthy of love and respect from our family, our neighbors, our God. It’s...

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Learning to Walk in the Way of Love - March 11, 2024

March 11, 2024

The worst part about being a prophet, Jeremiah knew, was having to tell God’s people what they did not want to hear. The false prophets of his day—as in ours—loved to...

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Look Up! - March 10, 2024

March 10, 2024

John 3:16 often appears on people’s foreheads at ballgames, on placards, bumper stickers, or in pamphlets left in public restrooms. To grow up in a Christian church means that you know,...

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Look Up! - March 9, 2024

March 9, 2024

I once knew a young man who had been raised going to church and even attended a Christian elementary school. When invited to attend church with my husband and me, he...

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