Jennifer Woodruff Tait (PhD, Duke University) is the editor of and frequent contributor to Life for Leaders. She is also the managing editor of Christian History magazine and web editor for the Theology of Work Project, and a priest in the Episcopal Church. She has written a book of poetry, Histories of Us. Jennifer lives in Berea, Kentucky, with her husband, Edwin, and their two daughters.
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A Prophecy and a Promise, Part 2
Your Lent may have gone many ways up until this point—you may have felt yourself drawing closer to God, or you may have felt the inadequacy of your own strength. Probably it is a little of both, and probably, either way, you may have come to understand what it means to lose your life and fall into the earth and die.
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God may well call you to a time dwelling apart—or God may call you to a time dwelling in the very midst of the world. But God will never issue you a call that does not ask you to seek the welfare of all_ _people.
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Must Have Been Something in the Water
Jesus’s baptism means something for how we understand his glory in Epiphany. It also means something for how we understand his temptation, and his ability to resist temptation, in Lent.
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Where’s Jesus?
If you were to keep reading the Gospel of Mark, you’d find tension continuing between a Jesus who asks to have his kingdom not revealed yet and a Jesus who is getting more and more famous by the minute.
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Fishers of Folk
The Sundays after Epiphany are the Sundays when we think about how God makes his kingdom manifest in the world, and how the light of Jesus was and is revealed.
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I’m the Biggest Thing in This Whale
Are you ready to be a messenger in the hand of God and an agent of God’s mercy?
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Holy Innocents
What in the world are these anniversaries of martyrdom doing during the holy days after Christmas Day?
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Good Things
At this hinge moment of history, in a backwater Roman province, a young peasant girl, overwhelmed and pregnant, yet saw and knew and prophesied the coming of the Messiah in the tradition of all the great prophets from the Hebrew Scriptures. And alone among those prophets, she bore in her very body that very Messiah, incarnate for our salvation.
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A Garland
Sometimes, in a dark world at a dark time, we need to hold onto the promise, not just of salvation, but of feasting.
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Well Done?
Responding to what we have been given by sending it out to multiply flourishing in the world is a much better posture than the posture of fear.
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Like a Thief in the Night
We have no control over when Christ is coming back. Let’s live a life of faith, hope, love, and building each other up while we wait.
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Money Doesn’t Exist
God ultimately rules over light and darkness, weal and woe, leveled mountains and straight roads—and over the exchange of money.
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