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SUMMARY:Praying Dangerously
DESCRIPTION:Join Rev. Natalie on Zoom for this powerful exploration and practice of prayer\, Tuesdays at 7:30 pm ET. We will read one chapter per week. Please come to the first meeting having read chapter 1. \nFrom Barnes & Noble: \nPraying Dangerously instructs us that we can grow up spiritually\, leaving behind a childish relationship to prayer as a superstitious ritual or mere plea for favors. It encourages readers to recognize the difference between prayer that asks only for reassurance\, and prayer that asks for the Ultimate\, and stands for transformation. “We can cease being ‘victims’ of God’s Will\, while at the same time embracing genuine surrender and reliance on the irrefutable power of love\,” says author and retreat leader Regina Sara Ryan. \nThe insecurities of our times draw us inward or back to our churches. In prayer groups and retreats of all kinds we are looking for comfort and consolation\, for spiritual direction\, or for answers to the eternal questions that have always challenged humanity. This book is a valued contribution in that search. This 10th anniversary edition is fully revised\, with several completely new chapters including: “The High Cost of Forgiveness”-a subject that challenges everyone-and “Praying on the Subway\,” about how our generally busy and often chaotic lives can provide us with a constant impetus for blessing others. \n  \nRegister here \n 
URL:https://www.middlechurch.org/event/praying-dangerously/2026-05-05/
CATEGORIES:Education
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: White Christian Nationalism: How does history help us overcome it? 
DESCRIPTION:White Christian Nationalism: How does history help us overcome it? \n  \nOn Sunday\, May 3\, from 1:00 to 2:30 PM\, the Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis will engage in a hybrid conversation three outstanding writers whose respective works examine the role of white supremacist ideology in the development of American Christianity and how we might overcome it. \nThey are Rachel Swarns\, a former NYT reporter\, contributing writer\, and professor of journalism at NYU; Jeannine Hill Fletcher\, professor of theology at Fordham; and Kevin Sack\, a former NYT reporter whose byline has shared in three Pulitzer prizes and is a visiting professor at Princeton this semester. \nSwarns\, who describes herself as a Black woman and a practicing Catholic\, is the author of The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church (2023)\, which takes as its subject the Jesuit slaveholders whose 1838 sale of 272 bonded people saved their largest mission project from financial ruin\, which in turn became the prestigious Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. Swarns also wrote about Michelle Obama’s enslaved lineage in American Tapestry (2012). \nHill\, also a practicing Catholic\, is the author of The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity\, Racism\, and Religious Diversity in America (2019)\, and the recently published Grace of the Ghosts: A Theology of Institutional Reparation (2025)\, which expands on Swarns’s work by discussing how the American Catholic church garnered its great wealth by dehumanizing\, exploiting\, and subsuming large numbers of African\, Indigenous\, Hispanic\, and Asian peoples in the bloody westward march of Manifest Destiny. \nAs the New York Times correspondent for the infamous 2015 massacre in Charleston of nine Black parishioners at Bible study\, Sack spent the subsequent decade researching and writing Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race\, Resistance\, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church\, which frames the massacre as the culmination of 200 years of persecution of Black Methodists by the city’s slaveholding Methodists and other evangelicals from the period of slavery through the civil rights movement. \n  \nJOIN US AFTER WORSHIP HERE
URL:https://www.middlechurch.org/event/white-christian-nationalism-and-how-we-overcome-it/
CATEGORIES:Education,Justice
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SUMMARY:Praying Dangerously
DESCRIPTION:Join Rev. Natalie on Zoom for this powerful exploration and practice of prayer\, Tuesdays at 7:30 pm ET. We will read one chapter per week. Please come to the first meeting having read chapter 1. \nFrom Barnes & Noble: \nPraying Dangerously instructs us that we can grow up spiritually\, leaving behind a childish relationship to prayer as a superstitious ritual or mere plea for favors. It encourages readers to recognize the difference between prayer that asks only for reassurance\, and prayer that asks for the Ultimate\, and stands for transformation. “We can cease being ‘victims’ of God’s Will\, while at the same time embracing genuine surrender and reliance on the irrefutable power of love\,” says author and retreat leader Regina Sara Ryan. \nThe insecurities of our times draw us inward or back to our churches. In prayer groups and retreats of all kinds we are looking for comfort and consolation\, for spiritual direction\, or for answers to the eternal questions that have always challenged humanity. This book is a valued contribution in that search. This 10th anniversary edition is fully revised\, with several completely new chapters including: “The High Cost of Forgiveness”-a subject that challenges everyone-and “Praying on the Subway\,” about how our generally busy and often chaotic lives can provide us with a constant impetus for blessing others. \n  \nRegister here \n 
URL:https://www.middlechurch.org/event/praying-dangerously/2026-04-28/
CATEGORIES:Education
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SUMMARY:Storytime and Children's Concert featuring Grace Semler Baldridge author of The Love that Made You
DESCRIPTION:Come hear author and musician Grace Semler Baldridge read about their nondenominational picture book about love and spirituality\, and stick around for some tunes!
URL:https://www.middlechurch.org/event/storytime-and-childrens-concert-featuring-grace-semler-baldridge-author-of-the-love-that-made-you/
CATEGORIES:Education,Justice
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SUMMARY:Praying Dangerously
DESCRIPTION:Join Rev. Natalie on Zoom for this powerful exploration and practice of prayer\, Tuesdays at 7:30 pm ET. We will read one chapter per week. Please come to the first meeting having read chapter 1. \nFrom Barnes & Noble: \nPraying Dangerously instructs us that we can grow up spiritually\, leaving behind a childish relationship to prayer as a superstitious ritual or mere plea for favors. It encourages readers to recognize the difference between prayer that asks only for reassurance\, and prayer that asks for the Ultimate\, and stands for transformation. “We can cease being ‘victims’ of God’s Will\, while at the same time embracing genuine surrender and reliance on the irrefutable power of love\,” says author and retreat leader Regina Sara Ryan. \nThe insecurities of our times draw us inward or back to our churches. In prayer groups and retreats of all kinds we are looking for comfort and consolation\, for spiritual direction\, or for answers to the eternal questions that have always challenged humanity. This book is a valued contribution in that search. This 10th anniversary edition is fully revised\, with several completely new chapters including: “The High Cost of Forgiveness”-a subject that challenges everyone-and “Praying on the Subway\,” about how our generally busy and often chaotic lives can provide us with a constant impetus for blessing others. \n  \nRegister here \n 
URL:https://www.middlechurch.org/event/praying-dangerously/2026-04-21/
CATEGORIES:Education
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SUMMARY:Praying Dangerously
DESCRIPTION:Join Rev. Natalie on Zoom for this powerful exploration and practice of prayer\, Tuesdays at 7:30 pm ET. We will read one chapter per week. Please come to the first meeting having read chapter 1. \nFrom Barnes & Noble: \nPraying Dangerously instructs us that we can grow up spiritually\, leaving behind a childish relationship to prayer as a superstitious ritual or mere plea for favors. It encourages readers to recognize the difference between prayer that asks only for reassurance\, and prayer that asks for the Ultimate\, and stands for transformation. “We can cease being ‘victims’ of God’s Will\, while at the same time embracing genuine surrender and reliance on the irrefutable power of love\,” says author and retreat leader Regina Sara Ryan. \nThe insecurities of our times draw us inward or back to our churches. In prayer groups and retreats of all kinds we are looking for comfort and consolation\, for spiritual direction\, or for answers to the eternal questions that have always challenged humanity. This book is a valued contribution in that search. This 10th anniversary edition is fully revised\, with several completely new chapters including: “The High Cost of Forgiveness”-a subject that challenges everyone-and “Praying on the Subway\,” about how our generally busy and often chaotic lives can provide us with a constant impetus for blessing others. \n  \nRegister here \n 
URL:https://www.middlechurch.org/event/praying-dangerously/2026-04-14/
CATEGORIES:Education
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SUMMARY:Praying Dangerously
DESCRIPTION:Join Rev. Natalie on Zoom for this powerful exploration and practice of prayer\, Tuesdays at 7:30 pm ET. We will read one chapter per week. Please come to the first meeting having read chapter 1. \nFrom Barnes & Noble: \nPraying Dangerously instructs us that we can grow up spiritually\, leaving behind a childish relationship to prayer as a superstitious ritual or mere plea for favors. It encourages readers to recognize the difference between prayer that asks only for reassurance\, and prayer that asks for the Ultimate\, and stands for transformation. “We can cease being ‘victims’ of God’s Will\, while at the same time embracing genuine surrender and reliance on the irrefutable power of love\,” says author and retreat leader Regina Sara Ryan. \nThe insecurities of our times draw us inward or back to our churches. In prayer groups and retreats of all kinds we are looking for comfort and consolation\, for spiritual direction\, or for answers to the eternal questions that have always challenged humanity. This book is a valued contribution in that search. This 10th anniversary edition is fully revised\, with several completely new chapters including: “The High Cost of Forgiveness”-a subject that challenges everyone-and “Praying on the Subway\,” about how our generally busy and often chaotic lives can provide us with a constant impetus for blessing others. \n  \nRegister here \n 
URL:https://www.middlechurch.org/event/praying-dangerously/2026-04-07/
CATEGORIES:Education
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