Category: Wesleyan Accent Blog
Barton Price ~ Founder’s Chic
December 5, 2018
I’m a historian by training. It is what I do and how I think. This training orients my own spiritual…
Michelle Bauer ~ Celebrating Advent as a Family: Las Posadas
December 3, 2018
Many families enjoy re-telling the events that happened around the time that someone was born – the mad dash to…
Edgar Bazan ~ Emmanuel: God Wants to Be With Us
December 1, 2018
Christmas is around the corner, and for the Christian church this is the beginning of the Advent season. Advent is…
Priscilla Hammond ~ Living a Life of Advent Light: When a Wreath Is More Than a Wreath
November 29, 2018
Many churches are currently setting up Advent wreaths to mark the weeks leading up to Christmas. The four candles that…
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ Transaction vs Transformation: The Nature of Blessing
November 28, 2018
Recently, I noted someone online putting forward the idea that God blesses organizations, traditions, or denominations depending on their public…
Michelle Bauer ~ Desperate for Mercy: Shouting All the More
November 26, 2018
As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard the crowd going by,…
Shalom Liddick ~ An Emptier Yet Fuller Life
November 22, 2018
My hike begins like many others for me: time spent talking with God and listening to his voice being carried…
Suzanne Nicholson ~ Suffering through Thanksgiving
This is the time of year when advertisements inundate us with images of happy families gloriously celebrating the holidays. Women…
Carrie Carter ~ When It’s Not Just the Turkey That’s Stuffed
November 21, 2018
It’s late November and you’re mostly through your daily “Thankful For…” list, or daily “Thankful” reading from the Psalms. By…
Karen Bates ~ Choosing Thankfulness in a Harsh World
November 20, 2018
Occasionally, I pay for people’s coffee while I’m buying my own. Not because I’m rich, but because it’s a nice…