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There are approximately ten million Roma in Europe, making them the continent’s largest non-territorial minority. Despite this fact, the Roma continue to experience routine discrimination and marginalization in European countries. As a result they are seldom engaged in national political activism...

Often we make a mess of our lives and wonder if there is any redemption. In this book, pastor and author Tom Berlin helps us see our mess through the eyes of Christ to find redemption and restoration. Using Scripture, devotional tools, and the writings of Ignatius of Loyola, John of the Cross, St....

Scripture and tradition fill the season of Advent with an abundance of characters, themes, and symbols. Each casts a slightly different perspective on the meaning of Jesus’ birth and God’s promised realm, the two chief components for which this season bids our preparation. Beginning December...

“Lent is a journey, but so is this life.” In daily posts with titles such as “Cleaning House,” “Peach Pie,” and “Standing on the Wings,” Traci Smith relates present-day experiences to provide context for Lent, with accompanying scripture and a prayer for each day’s reading.

Father Joseph Champlin adapts the Stations from the ones used by Pope John Paul II at the Roman Colosseum on Good Friday 1991. There are 15 stations, including the Resurrection. Based on the events in the Gospels, each station is accompanied by specific Gospel readings. Each of the prayer responses...

Who wants Christmas just one day a year? Celebrate for forty days!   Do you find your attention consumed by the pressures of the Christmas season—capturing the perfect Christmas card photo, finding the perfect gift, serving the perfect meal, or creating the perfect experience for your family? It’s...

Enrich the Advent season with this month-long Christmas devotional. The first two weeks provide studies in “Why Jesus Came,” using Jesus’ mission statements to identify His reasons for coming. Then, as Christmas draws near, the remaining days provide studies in “How Jesus Came,” moving through...

Its Christmas Eve, 1974, at the Nara household in Warren, Ohio. Gene and Maggie and their eight children are sitting in front of the fireplace waiting for their annual Christmas Eve tradition of singing happy birthday to Jesus and cutting the cake that was specially baked by Maggie in honor of Jesus...

Moses Pennyweighter was evil. No better word could be used to describe him, not at Christmas and not by those truly knowing the shriveled little man. Most though who lived in Millageville, working themselves ragged in his factory to buy another month's stay in his houses, groceries at his supermarket,...

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During the season of Advent, we anticipate the coming of the Messiah. He who was sent was not a warrior-king, but an outcast who preached an all-inclusive love and who continues to bring God's blessed community to life each day. Saint Pio loved this Messiah and desired to be with him. One might say...

Der Nachfolger von "Pleiten, Pech und Tannen": Wolfgang Schierlitz zeigt uns, wie es rund um Weihnachten zugehen kann: Katastrophen und Pannen, urkomische Missgeschicke und amüsante Zwischenfälle säumen den Weg zum Fest. In seinem unverwechselbaren Stil erzählt er von etwas sonderbaren...

Part of the "Just in Time" series, this book features ready-to-use lectionary-based worship and preaching resources for Palm Sunday and Holy Week. This helpful resource includes three options for Palm Sunday services including procession suggestions with special emphasis on participation...

This second Lent reader – as well as the first one, published separately – has grown out of my own Lenten practices and observances over the year.  I wrote them both because I would have found it helpful to have such a reader. I hope you enjoy and find the daily readings contained within helpful....