Coloring for spirituality
Take a look at Amazon’s best-seller list and you might be surprised to find adult coloring books in the mix. While adult coloring is mostly being marketed as a balm for the stress of modern life, some fans are describing it in spiritual terms. Some may scoff, but “it can become more than just
coloring if you want it to,” said Sybil MacBeth, author of Praying in Color (Paraclete Press, 2007). What is it, precisely, that can elevate coloring to a spiritual practice? For MacBeth, it’s “when my mind, body, spirit and soul are all in the same place … and my mind doesn’t wander—that becomes a spiritual practice.”
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Vigil in Oregon Following the shooting at Umpqua Community College where a gun- man killed nine people and injured seven others, Faith Lutheran Church, Roseburg, Ore., held a vigil Oct. 1. At presstime, Jane C. Baker, pastor of Faith, said the community was invited to the vigil to be “with one another and to pray for families, stu- dents and everyone involved. Tonight we look to God. No one else has the words for this now.”
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The first three episodes of Luther, the first-ever animated series capturing the life and work of Martin Luther, premiered in late August to an audi- ence of 140 in Wittenberg, Germany. Commissioned by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary in antic- ipation of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, the series will include 12 episodes.
Correction A chart on racial diversity in U.S. religious groups should have shown that 99 percent of members of the National Baptist Convention are black (September, page 8).
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