I see a lot of requests for ideas for retreats, especially women’s retreats. Often the request is for quick or easy ideas. I try to keep an eye out for books or work that would make good retreat fodder- to be mulled, prayed over, moved by, and carry away back into “real” life. If you… Read More
Thursday Prayer: A Prayer for World Refugee Day
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1 May we who seek to follow in the way of Jesus and to be made more and more in the likeness of Christ live out our calling as refuge and strength to those who leave their home in search of safety, as… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
For all the things, I pray today. For the one who is hurting and alone and misunderstood. For the starving polar bears everywhere. For this dear, dear wailing Mother. For babies torn from their mothers. For the prisoners who should not be imprisoned. For more light to break through blocked minds. For humanity to be… Read More
Revised Common Lectionary: Angels and Demons Edition
The Revised Common Lectionary offers a number of great options for this Sunday! Will you be preaching on Jesus and the Geresene (or Gadarene) man who had been living with demons? If so, will you address the inconsistencies in the text – for example, the fact that Gerasa was over 30 miles from the Sea of… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
God our Mother birthing new life through chaos God our Father building hope from the dark night God our Sister comfort us in times of sorrow God our Brother guide us through the storms, calm water God of the Night brighten our darkdays, with Your warm light God of the Day show us the way,… Read More
The Pastoral is Political: Pastor as Preacher
I don’t know about you, but I don’t know how to preach without being political. When the latest tragedy: be it gun violence, a natural disaster or the latest racist incident comes to pass I can’t not address it. Just picking the text for the day is a political act. Am I contending with the… Read More
Monday Prayer
Blessed One, you are present to us in power and gentleness, in obvious places, and crevices too often passed without a glance. Help us see you everywhere. Open us to hear the roar of your intention and the whisper of your healing. Connect us to one another through spirit and flesh, and draw us toward… Read More
Trinity Sunday Prayer
When you pray, say: Our Creator, our Justification, our Advocate in heaven — hallowed be thy Name, thy Body, thy Presence. Your Realm come, your Imagination fulfill, your Peace arrive in all ways & all places. Be our Bread, our Breath, and our Beckoning. Jealous One, forgive our self worship. Just One, save us from… Read More
Saturday Prayer: Gratitude for Words
The poetry exercise says to “find 50-100 words you like.” Words in books, notes, brochures, on signs, and rolling off of people’s tongues. Words that catch my attention. Words that make me feel . . . something. Words that sound the way they should against my ear. So I’ve been looking and listening And, God,… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Math Sunday
Greetings, preachers! It’s Math Sunday, better known as Trinity Sunday for those who follow the liturgical calendar. The Sunday when somehow one and three are equal. Are you tackling the Trinity? Or doing something else entirely? Revised Common Lectionary post with discussion is on our blog, if you need a kick-start. In the U.S., it… Read More
