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Why Was Jesus Crucified?

Why Was Jesus Crucified?

by Shirin McArthur | Mar 27, 2023 | Christianity, Society and Culture, Spiritual Life

Holy Week is just around the corner. As Christians prepare to remember the week of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem; his Last Supper with his disciples; and his subsequent arrest, trial, and crucifixion, here are some reflections that I first preached during our...
What Do the Christian Scriptures Teach about Love?

What Do the Christian Scriptures Teach about Love?

by Shirin McArthur | Mar 6, 2023 | Christianity, Ministry and Service, Spiritual Life

As I outlined in last week’s post, I’m endeavoring to reflect on the concept of unconditional love during Lent this year. I started my series by reflecting on the modern ideal and challenges of the concept of unconditional love. This week, I want to take a brief look...
Rethinking Unconditional Love: A Lenten Journey

Rethinking Unconditional Love: A Lenten Journey

by Shirin McArthur | Feb 27, 2023 | Christianity, Conscious Living, Spiritual Life

I had a conversation last week about the idea and ideal of unconditional love. We were talking about personal relationships, but it sparked a deeper thread that I want to make my Lenten pilgrimage here on my blog. I hope you will join me, and I pray that my musings...
Turning Our Expectations Upside Down

Turning Our Expectations Upside Down

by Shirin McArthur | Jan 16, 2023 | Christianity, Spiritual Life

In last week’s post, I wrote about the concept of pilgrimage as a crucible. In this post, I want to share some ideas about expectations from the homily I preached at the Mount of the Beatitudes in Galilee while we were on pilgrimage last November. I’ll share more from...
Reflecting on the Crucible that Is the New Year

Reflecting on the Crucible that Is the New Year

by Shirin McArthur | Jan 9, 2023 | Christianity, Conscious Living, Spiritual Life

Dear friends, I continue to reflect on images and ideas that came to me during our pilgrimage to the Holy Land in November 2022. In this post, I’d like to make some connections between pilgrimage as crucible and our pilgrim journey into the new year. A crucible is the...
Sharing Thoughts on Incarnation in Christmastide

Sharing Thoughts on Incarnation in Christmastide

by Shirin McArthur | Jan 2, 2023 | Christianity, Spiritual Life

Happy New Year! As has become a yearly tradition, I led an Advent retreat day at St. Philip’s last month. The theme was Incarnation—the fancy word for God in Christ becoming flesh in Jesus. As we continue living into the season of Christmastide, I thought I would...
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