profile

Act! Be Church Now

Podcast Invitation: When Did We See You? Lenten Meditations

Published 25 days ago • 1 min read

Check out my new Lenten Mediation Podcast When Did We See You?

Three to five minutes a day from Ash Wednesday to Easter, contemplating the scriptures in my book When Did We See You? A Lenten Exploration of Poverty & Wealth.

Three pre-lenten introductions start with Jesus' time in the wilderness.

This podcast offers a pause. A moment to notice what we have and to see Christ among us. Lent is a time of reflection and we will be spending time considering, evaluating, praying about our ... STUFF. The things we have and the resources we hold. How does our real life intersect with scripture, with Jesus, with faith?

Choose which podcast provider works for you.

Please forward this email to others who might be interested. If you got this from someone else, use the button below to subscribe to the free Act! Be Church Now email newsletter.

Kit: 600 1st Ave, Ste 330 PMB 92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2246
​Unsubscribe · Preferences​

Act! Be Church Now

Elizabeth Mae Magill

Join this newsletter to help your congregation be part of the resistance. You will get ideas for sermons, for actions, and for how to be church in a time such as this. Join to hear what other churches are doing. Join to focus on mission. Join to appreciate small church. Join to wrestle with poverty and wealth. Join to care for the those on the margins. It is time to Act! Be Church Now.

Read more from Act! Be Church Now
The words "It's time to be Woke" over an alarm clock with a yellow sticky saying "Wake Up"

Friends, Fifty degrees in Massachusetts today. But that's okay--it will be snowing this weekend. I move between eager for more skiing, and eager to see flowers and feel the warmth of the sun on my skin. I spent 24 hours in Fort Lauderdale and that was definitely enjoyable. -Liz Sleeper, awake! Have you awakened yet? Are you woke? Ephesian 5:14b Therefore it says, "Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." It’s hard to say when “woke” became part of our vocabulary. In...

1 day ago • 2 min read
Stained glass windows on black background and the words "The Kingdom of God is at Hand"

Friends, I hope you'll try out my podcast every morning for Lent. Or the same thing on YouTube. I'm headed to Florida to meet up with alums from Episcopal Divinity School. And hopefully warm weather? Lots of trips this March. -Liz Introduction to Act! Be Church Now Back when I was young, okay, 37, which now seems young, when I was young I wanted to create the Kingdom of God on earth. I mean yeah, I know that that is God's work, but I wanted to be part of it. Some of this was resistance to the...

5 days ago • 3 min read
Small lit candle, reflections of many candles, words Pray. And Act.

Friends, I gave up my car (one of two in my family) for the first Gulf War. It felt like we were killing people for oil, and I didn't want my car contributing to the need for oil. I walked to work, and struggled with how to explain to the people who gave me a ride what was going on. It felt so small an action. And it felt so necessary to do something and I didn't know what else to do. -Liz Just War Doctrine The earliest Christians did not join the military. Reasoning included the commandment...

8 days ago • 4 min read