CLOUT Prepares for March 22 Action Assembly
Join us on Monday, March 22 at the Louisville International Convention Center as we call on our school and juvenile justice system to "Plug the School to Prison Pipeline" by including Restorative Justice practices in their options for responses to student misbehavior.
A fact sheet on the issue is available, as is the content of an op-ed (written in part by Joe Phelps) that has been submitted to the Courier Journal.
On-Line Lenten Devotionals
Following are a selection of daily Lenten devotional that can be accessed online. You may wish to explore each of them and then decide on one that you’ll use each day, or perhaps one in the morning and one in the evening.
May you create a daily Lenten rhythm that brings you life, reflection, peace, intimacy with God.
From Passport (sponsors of the youth camp HBC attends)
From Upper Room (publishers of the Daily Devotionals that are available in print around HBC)
From Explorefaith.org (a group of authors and ministers many of us appreciate, including Marcus Borg, Barbara Brown Taylor and Phyllis Tickle)
Sticking out my neck and heart
I’ve stuck my neck out again. An editorial on welcoming gays and lesbians into the church appears in Sunday's Courier-Journal. As the primary author, my name appears first, along with four other local pastors who weighed in on the content and put their names and ministries on the line with me.
HBC Gathers $3097.45 To Date for Medical Supplies to Haiti
HBC will use its special offerings to aid Supplies Overseas (SOS) send truckloads of medical supplies to Haiti in the coming days and weeks. An offering was gathered on Friday and Sunday. Members may continue to give through the website (click Giving at the top) or through our regular offering collection in services.
SOS is run by HBC's Allen Montgomery. Here is Monday's Courier Journal story on their operation. Our thanks and blessings to Ronnie Gilbert and others who had the foresight to organize refreshments for the many SOS volunteers!
Text from Carolyn Winfrey Gillette's new hymn, "In Haiti, There is Anguish"
Communion and Commitment by Wesley Edwards
As one-by-one, as couples, as family, as a parent
guiding a child, the congregation progressing down the aisle
creates a symphony of silence and simplicity.
Thinking About Gratitude by Lee Cave
Sometimes I substitute teach one of our Sunday School classes. Once when I did this the lesson was from Deuteronomy, a book I had always thought of as just a bunch of rules and regulations. The lesson writer, however, pointed out that since Moses knew he was about to die, Deuteronomy was really Moses’ “last sermon” to the people he loved. I mentioned to the class that this reminded me of “The Last Lecture”, a book based on the last lecture of a professor before his death from cancer, a book that I had not read but wanted to.
Joe's Blog
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- Communion and Commitment by Wesley Edwards
- Thinking About Gratitude by Lee Cave
- Reflection on Haiti by J. Howard Teel
- The Line by Dianna French
- Taking It Personally by Cheryl Davis
- Reflection on the Crosses by Terri Connolly
- Migration as mission by David D'Amico
- Consumed by God by Crystal Shepherd
- The Aging Revolution by David F. D'Amico
- The Red Bible Under the Arm of the Man on 42nd Street by David D'Amico
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