Easter Monday – EpilogueDay 48 – April 05 Kasongo Butler Community Connections: WTS MDiv 2020; Director of Wesley Council; Wesley Council Donor; Metropolitan AME, D.C., New Mount Zion AME, Tallahassee, FL Morning Theme Songs: Get Up, Mary Mary REIGN The Parable of the Trees ~ Judges 9:7-15 At the beginning of 2021, a […]
Resurrection SundayDay 47 – April 04 James E. Victor, Jr. Community Connections: WTS Board of Governors 2014-current; WTS DMin 2009; Pastor of the Mount Olive Baptist Church, Arlington, VA Morning Theme Songs: He’s Been So Good by The First Church of Deliverance RECREATION, REPARATIONS Happy Easter Day! ~ John 20:1-18 The church that […]
Holy SaturdayDay 46 – April 03 Dr. Josie Hoover & Rev. Ashley Hoover Community Connections: Josie: WTS MDiv 2008, DMin 2015; WTS Adjunct Professor, Dance; WTS Staff; Wesley Council Donor Ashley: WTS MDiv 2008; Pastor, Jerusalem-Mt. Pleasant UMC, Rockville; Wesley Council Donor Morning Theme Songs: Josie: Off the Wall, Michael JacksonAshley: Wake Up Everybody, […]
Good FridayDay 45 – April 02 Bishop Kenneth L. Carder Community Connections: WTS MDiv 1965; WTS Society of John Wesley 1992; WTS Governor Emeritus; Wesley Council Donor Morning Theme “Song”: I begin each day reading, studying, and reflecting upon the Psalm of my year. For example, I am in my 80th year so I […]
Maundy ThursdayDay 44 – April 1 Anna Petrin Community Connections: WTS Assistant Professor of Worship and Chapel Elder Morning Theme Song: Pura Vida, Dom Omar Remain ~ John 17 Our word for today is “remain,” and as I have meditated on Holy Thursday and its liturgies, the well-known Taizé song “Stay with me; remain […]
Day 43 – March 31 Malcolm Frazier Community Connections: WTS MDIV 2000, DMIN 2006; WTS former adjunct faculty; WTS PM&M Program Partner; Wesley Council Donor; Elder, Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference; Director of Pastor Care and Counseling at Asbury Methodist Village Morning Theme Song: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty Rebound ~ Psalm 70 Am I […]
Day 42 – March 30 Philip Wingeier-Rayo Community Connections: WTS Dean and Professor of Missiology and Methodist Studies; Wesley Council Donor Morning Theme Song: Sanctuary Reform ~ Ezekiel 37: 4-6 The word “reform” often takes our minds to the Protestant Reformation of 1517 and the reformers, such as Martin Luther and John Calvin. However even […]
Day 41 – March 29 Sondra Wheeler Community Connections: WTS Professor of Christian Ethics; Wesley Council Donor Morning Theme Song: We Are Not Alone (Pepper Choplin), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OviilwuJVtE RETURN ~ John 12: 1-11 Lent is my favorite season. It reminds me of what is true and important, prompts me to turn and make my way […]
Palm SundayDay 40 – March 28 William H. Lamar IV Community Connections: WTS PM&M Program Partner; Pastor of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church Morning Theme Song: A Love Supreme by John William Coltrane Religion? ~ Philippians 2:5-11 I am not surprised that I am the only person to choose the word religion to frame […]
Day 39 – March 27 Br. Trent Somes, OSL Community Connections: WTS, First Year MDiv Student from the Greater Pittsburgh Region Morning Theme Song: NPR Morning Edition Theme Music Reflecting on Rebirth ~ John 11:45–53 On March 27, 2020, those in my county faced a stay-at-home order. Reflecting on this day, it was difficult for […]
