Ministry Matters - Grief cannot be controlled | With joy and thanksgiving

Can grief become comprehensible? Grief cannot be controlled by Greta Smith   Grief is a paradox and an enigma. We cannot control the process of grief or our own healing, but we can employ helpful means of coping. There is a sense in which we actively grieve, and a sense in which grief is something that happens to us, or even in spite of us. Read here

Should this most definitive event call for anything less than everything? With joy and thanksgiving we welcome you by William McDonald   Infant or adult, we come not to the font alone. We are accompanied, presented, ushered. That you are not this young man’s biological family, but part of the new family in Christ means that the bonds baptism creates with water are thicker than the bonds of blood and DNA. Read here

Is anyone researching or challenging the church’s role in the wedding business? A royal mess: Re-evaluating the church's role in the wedding business by Amie Martin   Ironically, even though churches can’t agree on who ministers should be allowed to marry, they all seem to agree without question on one critical sticking point: that clergy-persons should be the officiants, and that the church belongs in the business of solemnizing marriages. And so the debates and divisions continue. Read here

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