Presbyterian Mission Agency Ordinary time Archives

We’re no superheroes

Posted November 22nd, 2021

The first thing that Jud and Elizabeth Curry of Elburn, Illinois, want you to know about them is they aren’t superheroes.

Ordinary Time gets a new image

Posted July 7th, 2021

Ordinary Time is a span of the Church calendar between major feasts and their seasons, occupying more than 30 Sundays each year.

‘Ordinary Time’ is extra-ordinary

Posted November 18th, 2020

A recent cartoon in our Sunday newspaper depicted an exhausted mother, sprawled in a chair surrounded by typical birthday party chaos: torn wrapping paper, balloons, toys spread everywhere. Standing next to her, a little boy with a party hat tilted on his head asks, “When’s the next birthday?”

‘Anything But’ Ordinary Time calls for radical faith

Posted August 24th, 2020

Everything we once knew as “normal” has changed — including the ebb and flow of the church calendar: welcome to “anything but” ordinary time.

‘Ordinary Time’ is extra-ordinary

Posted July 3rd, 2020

Just as most of our days are lived between the big events, so the church year is filled with more ordinary days than holidays.