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By Rev. John Gantt  •  November 21, 2024

Imagine my chagrin. In my high school days (oh my – that was over 70 years ago!) I thought I invented a word.

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Just Keep Moving: Exercise as a Spiritual Practice

By Rev. Jared Ruari  •  January 25, 2018

Do you remember Virginia McLaurin, the 106-year-old woman who danced with joy while meeting President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama?

Spiritual Practice: Making Music

By Rev. Beth Long-Higgins, VP of Engagement and director of the Ruth Frost Parker Center for Abundant Aging  •  January 18, 2018

Is making music a spiritual practice?

Wisdom Conversations: Clergy, Lay Leaders Combat Ageism in Retreat Day

By Guest Blogger  •  January 12, 2018

DUBLIN, Ohio (January 11, 2017) – Central Ohio clergy and lay people participated in the first Wisdom Conversations event sponsored by United Church Homes’ Ruth Frost..

Just Breathe!

By Rev. Catherine Lawrence  •  January 11, 2018

Just breathe!

Resolutions, Spiritual Practices, New Beginnings

By Rev. Beth Long-Higgins, VP of Engagement and director of the Ruth Frost Parker Center for Abundant Aging  •  January 04, 2018

A new year provides an opportunity for a renewed focus on spiritual practices. New Year resolutions have never attracted my attention. Maybe this is because when we make..

Say What?: Facility vs. Community

By Rev. Jared Ruari  •  December 28, 2017

I do not think that I’d like to live my day-to-day life in a facility. When I hear “facility," my thoughts turn to “sports injury rehabilitation facility” or “state of..

A New Kind of House Church

By Rev. Beth Long-Higgins, VP of Engagement and director of the Ruth Frost Parker Center for Abundant Aging  •  December 27, 2017

There are 40 million unpaid caregivers in the U.S. today, according to a recent report from the Bipartisan Policy Center. Fifty percent of the current paid workforce..

Updating the Holy Family Portraits

By Rev. Beth Long-Higgins, VP of Engagement and director of the Ruth Frost Parker Center for Abundant Aging  •  December 21, 2017

I recently cleaned off the front of our refrigerator where we keep the yearly family portraits that come in Christmas cards. You know: The school portraits from nieces..

Intergenerational Christmas Pageant Fosters Abundant Life

By Rev. Rebecca S. King  •  December 14, 2017

It was a cold December during Advent. Members of the small, intergenerational congregation I had been called to serve a few months before that night began arriving at..