During this season of Lent, A Rocha USA is hosting a series of posts on the theme of waiting, resurrection, and creation care, using the hymn “Now The Green Blade Rises” as inspiration. Full text of the hymn can be found here. By Robert Campbell We’re a short way into Lent and, dang, that's a …
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Now The Green Blade Rises
During this season of Lent, A Rocha USA is hosting a series of posts on the theme of waiting, resurrection, and creation care, using the hymn “Now The Green Blade Rises” as inspiration. Full text of the hymn can be found here. This beautiful hymn first appeared in the Oxford Book of Carols in …
Mending and Amending
Over the next few weeks, a few of us here at A Rocha will be posting a series of short meditations on waiting in God’s creation as we prepare for the celebration of Christmas. By Robert Campbell The spring is a long way off from the first week of Advent. Perhaps Advent is more like keeping a …
The Year Begins With Waiting
Over the next few weeks, a few of us here at A Rocha will be posting a series of short meditations on waiting in God's creation as we prepare for the celebration of Christmas. By Robert Campbell Our new year begins before the rest of the world. That is, the Christian season of Advent does not …
Getting in Gratitude Shape
By Leah Kostamo, co-founder and lead writer for A Rocha Canada Perhaps, dear reader, you are one of those enlightened souls who goes around humming hymns and thanking God for his manifold blessings – all day, every day. If so, good on you. (Seriously, good on you!) But perhaps you are like the …