Dear Gals and Pals, This week we celebrate the 14th anniversary of the birth of RevGalBlogPals. Founded as a network of bloggers in 2005, we formed a non-profit in 2006, and since then we have engaged in the work of creating community for clergywomen through our website, our social media spaces, and our continuing education… Read More
Thursday Prayer
Dearest Friend and Great I AM, Today I pray for your boldest ones. Your beloved ones, your strong ones, The ones you have created and called, Plucked out and set up front, Gifted with story and strategy, Fierce proclamation and radical witness. Those wild faithful who make the first moves, Say the first hard things,… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Holy God, Who calls us to our best selves Without excuse we show up today in holy splendor Crossing bridges in holy boldness Loving our neighbors in holy trust Caring for creation in holy awe Submitting fully with holy bodies Holy God, We show up today in holy splendor Not with airs of “holier than… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Tenacious God, You’ve said “be strong and courageous.” And here we are with quivering hearts, apprehensive about what needs to happen. Do we really need to use our shaking voices? Will they listen to us or throw us aside? Will my one voice matter? I know what my task is. I know how you are… Read More
Revised Common Lectionary: There’s More to the Story
They stopped the show just before the best part! You know that feeling. You think that a story is just getting interesting, and then there’s a commercial break, or the episode ends and you have to wait a week, or the book switches to another character’s narrative for a few chapters. But wait! Things were… Read More
The Pastoral is Political
Playing in the Fields of Hope I’ve been playing in church for a long time, mostly with children, sometimes with adults. I learned a new game, “God’s Musical Chairs,” from Jeff Doucette, pastor at Enniskillen & Tyrone United Church in Bowmanville, Ontario. We are members of an online international church called CASA. God’s Musical Chairs… Read More
Monday Prayer
It was a holy moment… A gathering of family church family family friends family united and one our family God’s family we sat, happily sharing: news stories food laughter fun It was a precious God moment… Holy One, we thank for all those small God moments that make up each day we thank you for… Read More
Sunday Prayer 7-14 based on John 1
Image: https://larrystewardjames.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/in-the-beginning-was-the-word-and-the-word-was-with-god-and-the-word-was-god-john-11/ Prayer: Life-giving Word, Creating Word which made and sustains all life Word Incarnate, made like us and dwelling among us Word which the Spirit recalls to us, give us the power of your Word that we may pray truly, sing fully, and worship you in all we do. Amen. Rev. Dr. Barbara… Read More
Saturday Prayer: Stalled
I am stalled. I have been pushing too hard for too long. I’ve given my life more gas than it can handle, taken on too much, tried to do more than I am capable of. And now I’m sitting by the side of the road, unable to get started again, watching the smoke pouring out… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Take Time
This rose bloomed on the morning the moving van arrived, a morning full of constant motion and a flurry of activity. As our children and I left the house for the last time, I stopped to smell the rose and invited them to do so, too. The moving crew–five men–all came over to smell it… Read More
