This special 4-week Advent Study offers an exploration of the season using rich visual art and music. Many congregations choose to mark these Sundays with the lighting of candles in the Advent wreath, balancing the dark days of winter with the promise of a coming spring.

This special 4-week Advent Study offers an exploration of the season using rich visual art and music. Many congregations choose to mark these Sundays with the lighting of candles in the Advent wreath, balancing the dark days of winter with the promise of a coming spring.

This RBTL resource follows the Revised Common Lectionary with text selections for Year A - Set 1. There are 52 lessons the year.

This RBTL resource follows the Revised Common Lectionary with text selections for Year B - Set 1. There are 52 lessons the year.

This RBTL resource follows the Revised Common Lectionary with text selections for Year C - Set 1. There are 52 lessons for each volume/year.

This RBTL resource follows the Revised Common Lectionary with text selections for Years A, B and C - Set 1. There are 52 lessons for each volume/year.

This RBTL resource follows the Revised Common Lectionary with text selections for Year A - Set 2 There are 52 lessons the year.

This RBTL resource follows the Revised Common Lectionary with text selections for Year B - Set 2. There are 52 lessons the year.

This RBTL resource follows the Revised Common Lectionary with text selections for Year C - Set 2. There are 52 lessons for each volume/year.

Imagine . . . you begin the day in the classroom of the earth, learning about God’s good creation by feeling it, working with it, helping coax its fruit to maturity.

Even and especially in these difficult times, the Lenten journey can be an encouraging, enlightening path to hope, resilience, and new life.

This program is for today's leaders, individual seekers, companions, caregivers, service providers, activists in change-making organizations, and more.

I give my thanks to Creation and Creation showers me with goodness.

Giving Thanks for What Is and What Has Been; Celebrating Earth (land, trees, plants) and Autumn’s Abundance; Welcoming the Coming Darkness.

When we commune with life and creation in all Her forms, it is an act of prayer.

The importance of this lesson is to continue to relate to all beings — human and more-than- human, animate and inanimate – as our relatives and teachers.

Lesson 4: Protecting Earth & Right Relationship. We do not own this land, we are here to care for Earth.

I share Earth’s abundance and make my community a better place

I trust the natural cycle of life

I listen for and honor my ancestors.

Week 10: Autumn Lesson 8: Each Creature is a Book Full of God I learn about God from every creature. Getting to the

I can connect directly to God within.

The prophet inside me speaks truth to power!

I have a unique gift to offer this world. undeniably true.

My dreams are a way for me to connect with Spirit.

This session happens approximately one class before the Winter Solstice.

Gathering Date That Falls Closest to the Solstice.

My dreams are a way for me to connect with Spirit.

I am part of Deep Time.

I honor and care for my body