Here we are mid-Eastertide. How will you shepherd your people this week? Where are you going with your sermon? How can we help? The Narrative Lectionary offers Philip baptizing the Ethiopian Eunuch. The discussion from earlier this week is here. Since it’s the 4th Sunday of Easter, it’s Good Shepherd Sunday in the Revised Common… Read More
The Pastoral is Political: What a mess
It really is, a mess. It’s hard to comprehend some of the political shenanigans at the moment. Well over here in the UK in any case. In previous editions of ‘The Pastoral is Political’ I have perhaps been critical of the incumbent of the White House . And perhaps been a little smug that over… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Is it right, O God, to be grateful for the bare minimum, for justice done once, when it has been abandoned so many other times? Can we give thanks for one day of something like justice, when there have been so many other empty days? We call out to you the name of George Floyd,… Read More
Worship Words – April 25, 2021
Whether you you working with the RCL texts or the NL, or marking Earth Day, here are some words you can use or adapt for worship or for your own meditation, here are some thanks to members of our RevGals community (and beyond). If you can please give credit in video descriptions or print versions,… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Creator God, Oh Holy One, who loves differences and made the world delightfully diverse, thank you. Help your creature, especially we humans, who fall away from your expansive love for variety and instead treat some people as more valuable than other people. Help us to see the beauty, the grace, the vibrancy, the life! In… Read More
NARRATIVE LECTIONARY: No Reason Not to!!!
Sermon ideas for Sunday April 25, 2021: Acts 8: 26 – 39 Philip baptizing the Eunuch from Ethiopia is a short part of Acts that is packed full of preach-able moments. What I love most about this story is that moment in verse 37 when the eunuch says “What is to prevent me from… Read More
RCL: Sacrificial Love
Today we receive an incredible challenge: Jesus laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for one another (1 John 3:16). Christ gave his life for us as a shepherd would lay down his life for his sheep (John 10:11). How often have we ever truly been called upon… Read More
Monday Prayer
Dear God, I don’t know if this is anything, or not. Your biggest fattest robin I’ve ever seen just tapped at my window. She did not fly against the glass by accident but tapped it with her beak. I didn’t imagine it, surely, God. She was dusted in your snow just like I was a… Read More
Sunday Psalm: Protest
The Righteous One has been vilified so that the white devil might slip away. Weep and shout, O Distrusted! Read More
Saturday Prayer: Scattered and broken
Oh Holy One, We are broken and scattered. Our hearts are crushed. We see the debris of lives before us, tossed about with indifference and violence. We see the carnage of prejudice and bigotry. We are grieving. We stare at the broken bodies, the tearful families, the aches that cannot be eased, the posturing and… Read More
