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Racial relations are more complex than the dualities to which we reduce them, and the history of racial relations even more so. Jan Jarboe Russell’s The Train to Crystal City is a history book, but she also highlights dangerous rhetoric and sentiment that prevails in our own time. Russell, a native of San Antonio, traces… Read More
Holy One, I need the fierceness of a goddess today~~ the triple spiral of maiden, mother, crone; the deep knowing well of Sophia, the sharp beauty and intellect of Hokmah. Move in me and around me and fill me, Sister Wisdom. Help me listen to You, help me listen to others, help me respond with… Read More
When I read through the texts for this week my first thought was that the whole world needs a cup of cold water. We need to stop worrying about who has the better cup, or who deserves a drink, or who should be first to drink and just hold out a cup for the first… Read More
Prayer for Boundaries O God, you set upon our borders sentinels who are never silent and watchers who never sleep; guard and protect the boundaries of my soul. You shelter us under the shadow of your wings; create within me a safe place in which to heal. Speak tenderly to my spirit, Holy Mother, and… Read More
We are seeking more clergywomen to write for our weekly feature, The Pastoral is Political. Our current team includes 16 writers who each write 3 to 4 times per year. Writers address a topic of their choosing in which there is some intersection between the life of faith and the civic or political world. RevGalBlogPals is committed to… Read More
O God of tenderness, my pain stems from being squeezed between love and hardship. I know you ache with me, and that the rain you bestow upon the earth is one of the ways that you share my tears. Help me buffer the assaults of difficult moments by releasing the balm of love. Draw me… Read More
Go away from me, O God. You overpower my life and divide it ruthlessly: the chaff from the wheat, the longing from the glorifying, the entrenched from the freeing, the comfortable from the necessary. You melt my heart (like sap in the spring, like snow in the winter) until there is nothing left, for your… Read More
Dearest Lord Jesus, for the crimes of the fathers, we ask forgiveness. For those who prioritize profits over the poor, who think that other is less than. Send us mercy and grace and soften Pharoh’s heart. Amen. The Reverend Shannon Meacham currently serves Ashland Presbyterian Church in the safest part of Baltimore, the suburbs. You… Read More
I managed to see Wonder Woman this week. And, although that’s a genre of film in which I wouldn’t normally indulge, I loved it! The down to earth, underlying themes of truth and hope and love triumphing over evil and hatred and suffering, spoke to me at a primal level as I sought to escape the… Read More
Once again, my pile of “to read” books has grown so high that I actually need to read a few books from the pile before I can reasonably defend the purchase (or library-borrowing) of more books that will surely increase the pile’s height! First to move from the “to read” pile into my hands for… Read More
