Julie Chewning

Today’s CliffNotes is written by Ministry Intern Danielle Pruitt. Dear Christ Church, I love this short Advent poem by Madeleine L’Engle, titled “After the Annunciation”: This is the irrational season when love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason there’d have been no room for the child. Ivanka Demchuk “Annunciation” Advent is

Dear Christ Church, God is alive and active in your life right now, and mine too. I believe that’s true, but I need help identifying Him. Sometimes God’s presence is elusive, fleeting, or difficult to identify in the crowded room of my consciousness. I need help, which is why I have a Spiritual Director. That’s what

Dear Christ Church, There are now loads of Advent resources available, but nothing I know of quite like the Advent Reflections (scroll to bottom of the link to subscribe) produced by the Matthew 25 Initiative (M25i). These are beautiful and thoughtfully created reflections that help us to keep company with those who are most desperate for the

Dear Christ Church, At our Parish Retreat Erin Moniz told the story of one of her professors who asked the class “What time is it?” Someone answered, predictably, with the precise clock time. The professor asked again and again until people began to give answers like, “It’s time for me to make a difficult decision”

Dear Christ Church, “It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” These lines from a poem by Wendell Berry have recently spoken to me in this