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The Menu COTV Home Blog Home Prayer Donate Words From The Pastors Blog Menu Advent Devotional Asian American Heritage Month Lent Devotional LGBT Pride Month Personal Stories Reflections UMW Tags #WhyGiveCOTV Advent agape Agape Sangha Ally Ash Wednesday Bible Study Bishop Alfred Johnson Bishop J Change Church COTV Creative Eating Embodiment Family Food HNN Identity Injustice Intentional Interactive Lent LGBT Love loving kindness Loving Others Meditation metta Mourning Music Photography Practice Prayer Pride Protest Relationships Running sacrifice Social Justice Social Media Stewardship Sweets Transgender Worry Search Browse: Home ON SEEING: A One Year Anniversary Reflection on my Journey to El Salvador January 19, 2018 by Katie Reimer Advent Devotional , Personal Stories , Reflections I have tried to speak and write many times over the past year, recording my reflections from a journey I took to El Salvador with… Read Article → Called to Love April 18, 2017 by Church of the Village Uncategorized By Isaiah DuPree (To watch a video of Isaiah DuPree’s Called to Love,” click here.) We are called to love I call upon our congregation,… Read Article → 9/29/16 Together in Prayer group meditation September 30, 2016 by Church of the Village Uncategorized Celebrate Not a world that has in it nothing but good, But a world that is good, While having in it so much that is… Read Article → 9/22/16 Together in Prayer group meditation September 30, 2016 by Church of the Village Uncategorized True Self/False Self: Week 1 A Point of Nothingness Today we continue with Thomas Merton’s description of the True Self as written following his conversion”… Read Article → Black Lives Matter to a White Girl August 9, 2016 by Church of the Village Black Lives Matter , Personal Stories By Emily Turner Originally posted Thursday, July 14, 2016 at http://loveyoubudblog.blogspot.com/2016/07/black-lives-matter-to-white-girl.html I was waiting at the coffee shop this morning for my iced latte and… Read Article → Chosen at COTV: What’s our Job as a Beacon of God’s Love? August 4, 2016 by Martha Chapman Uncategorized Turn from the world and be embraced by the love of Christ. Like lost children, we seek our true home. Know that God loves us… Read Article → Your Power May 10, 2016 by Katie Reimer Uncategorized This message is dedicated to 8 beloved friends of mine who were among 15 United Methodist clergy and candidates who came out as LGBTQI in an open… Read Article → Expressing Lovingkindness to Oneself December 12, 2015 by Church of the Village Meditation by Larry Thomas (This is the second in a series of blog posts on lovingkindness meditation. Check out Larry’s first post here.) Expressing Lovingkindness to Oneself We begin metta… Read Article → What is This Thing Called Love? December 11, 2015 by Church of the Village Meditation by Larry Thomas What is love? Think of all the different meanings we give the little word love.” • Love. It’s what makes a… Read Article → Why I Give! November 11, 2015 by Nathan Realm Bunce #WhyGiveCOTV , Personal Stories , Stewardship On the North and South walls of our Sanctuary is the hashtag: #WhyGiveCOTV, which begs an answer: Why give?” My experience with church and money was… Read Article → 1 2 … 9 Next → Church of the Village 201 West 13th St. New York, NY 10011 Ph: 212-243-5470 This work by Church of the Village is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License...