“We are not only impoverished in love; our loves are disordered, out of alignment. We can attempt to cushion them as much as we want; only realigning misplaced joints will relieve the pain, though.”
Author: Elizabeth Glass Turner
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ Reveal
Our world needs to be new again: reborn, pressed against the chest of its Creator. Do galaxies have a newborn smell? Do subatomic particles dance with the hard-to-predict movements of a newborn’s kicking legs? In the youth of the world, did the trees yawn the contented sigh of a just-nursed newborn?
Tammie Grimm ~ Repeat the Sounding Joy
As Christians, we bear the light and allow it to shine through us so it may be offered to a world hungry for reconciliation and peace. We offer it to one another when times get rough and the waiting gets long. Sometimes, it gets so very long and can feel very desperate. Our response as Christians is not to brush the wait and darkness aside with simplistic answers and sound bite advice. We are not supposed to solve the problems others face but step into the darkness with others, offering the light we possess that Christ offered us. That is the participation we are called to during Christmas. O come, all you faithful ones.
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ Transaction vs Transformation: The Nature of Blessing
Recently, I noted someone online putting forward the idea that God blesses organizations, traditions, or denominations depending on their public positions on certain topics,…
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ The Courage to Be: Conferencing and the Kingdom of God
While United Methodists spend a great deal of time, money, and energy attempting to shape potential outcomes of the specially called 2019 General Conference…
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ By the Light of Christ and the Saints
Romans 12:1-2: “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and…
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ The Many Ways We Limp
The bottoms of your shoes tell a tale. Examine them: the soles are worn down on the inside or the outside, at the front…
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ The Holy Spirit in Liminal Spaces
When everything is turned inside-out, a jumble of items cascading from a moving box or a partially rearranged room in upheaval, then you can…
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ Are American Clergy Suffering a Crisis of Faith?
Note from the Editor: This week at Wesleyan Accent, as we scan, with grief, ongoing news from seeker-sensitive Protestant megachurches and Roman Catholic dioceses,…
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ Leadership Qualities that Can’t Be Faked
Note from the Editor: This week at Wesleyan Accent, as we scan, with grief, ongoing news from seeker-sensitive Protestant megachurches and Roman Catholic dioceses,…