Let Us Bless the Lord Year Two Advent-Holy Week ”—Cintra Pemberton

”—Cintra Pemberton

This volume addresses the difficult and essential area of pastoral preaching as a kind of spiritual leadership in which compassionate healing and courageous confrontation are experienced not as polar opposites

Seeing God in Each Other is rooted in an abiding hope that congregations are one of the few places where people can work together for positive human change

and community have taken on new meanings

Benedict's Convent

Let Us Bless the Lord Year Two Advent-Holy Week ”—Cintra PembertonPopular author, retreat leader, and priest Barbara Crafton rises early each morning, lights a candle, opens her Book of Common Prayer, and reads the morning officethe ancient Christian service that praises God at the beginning of a new day. When she is done, Crafton sits down at her computer and sends out an e mail that says simply, "Let us bless the Lord," the traditional closing line of the morning prayer service. Her devoted readers reply, "Thanks