Feb 19, 2025
Dear friends in Christ, Just two weeks from today, Lent begins. Maybe you love Lent, and this is good news for you. Or maybe you dread Lent, and you can’t imagine the burden of this season when the world seems to be coming apart. If the second one sounds like you, I invite you to […]
Mar 20, 2024
Dear friends in Christ: We welcome back Margaret Ellsworth, Forward Movement’s Marketing Coordinator, as our guest author this week. Holy Week begins on Sunday. Clergy and church workers (and musicians, and coffee hour hosts, and the bulletin-folding crew) are getting ready for the busiest week of the church year. For my part, I’m queuing up […]
Feb 28, 2024
Dear friends in Christ, As I write this, voting is under way in today’s Lent Madness contest. For those who aren’t familiar with it, Lent Madness is a mostly silly game in which 32 saints go up against each other as voters decide who wins the Golden Halo. Among other things, voters end up learning […]
Feb 21, 2024
Dear friends in Christ, This Sunday’s Gospel brings a challenging message from Jesus. Among other things, Jesus says, “For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to […]
Jan 31, 2024
Dear friends in Christ, It’s hard to believe, but Lent begins two weeks from today. From many conversations over years, I know that some people really look forward to this season and others dread it. A long time ago, I didn’t love the subdued season of Lent, but I grew to love it. Lent can […]
Jan 23, 2024
Amanda Perkins McGriff is an Episcopal priest who lives in Memphis, Tennessee, with her husband Wil, their son Darwin, and their retired greyhound, Goose. She currently serves as a chaplain at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and as curate at St. George’s Episcopal Church. A graduate of Bexley Seabury Seminary in Chicago, she is the recipient […]
Dec 14, 2023
Cincinnati, OH – Forward Movement, in collaboration with Episcopal Evangelism Society, invites Episcopalians to reflect on their baptismal promises during Lent through a new small group study and corresponding book, Will You? A Lenten Study of Baptismal Promises. This five-week Lenten small group study offers daily reflections, examples of evangelism in action, and an invitation […]