So, fellow RevGals and Pals, how’s your sermon? If you’re following the RCL, there are rich images in just about every text. The Lectionary Leanings post from this week is here if you still need inspiration. Are you considering what it meant for Peter to step away from helping to row the boat in order… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: You Who Are Weary
How is your sermon preparation going at this point in your week? If you are using the Revised Common Lectionary, did you feel the weariness in your bones when you read Jesus’s invitation in the gospel text? Did you sense God’s weariness with Job if you are preaching The Narrative Lectionary summer series? Or are… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
Things are the same, Lord, but oh, so different! You send us to proclaim your Word, though we now navigate a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party of Zoom and Facebook and camera angles and lighting to make it happen. You call us to love our neighbor, though we share that love through masks and sanitizer and… Read More
Friday Festival: May Day Reflections
In some parts of the world, May Day is marked with parades and bonfires and drinking. In other places, it is marked with small baskets of flowers or candy left on a doorstep. For many of our bloggers, the start of a new month has been a time of reflection. What happened in April, and… Read More
Friday Festival: Alone Together
The biggest thing on the minds of RevGal bloggers this week is, not surprisingly, the COVID-19 virus: how to keep ourselves and our families safe, how to care for the vulnerable people in our communities, how to lead worship without gathering in a large group, how to nurture community when we are physically separated. Ordinarily… Read More
Friday Festival: Leap Year, Super Tuesday, and Other Distractions
It’s been a week with a lot to focus on, and our blog writers have had lots of places to put their attention as they have been writing this week. In the US, the field of Democratic candidates for President has been winnowed (apparently) down to two. Some of our bloggers are grieving, some are… Read More
Saturday Prayer: Today’s Teachers
My dog, sound asleep by my feet, snoring gently, knowing that food will be there when she wakes. And a walk. And maybe treats. One cat enjoying the view from the window. “The birds are not my concern today. I have dreams to dream.” The other cat nestled in the pillows and blankets. “Don’t make… Read More
Friday Festival: (Re)Gaining Perspective
This week has been an especially difficult one for me. I have watched the world – and people – around me swing wildly from madness to cruelty and back again. I have struggled and failed to keep from getting caught up in the craziness. As I began reading blogs this week, I realized that I… Read More
Friday Festival: Turning the Corner into a New Year
It’s not just one year ending and another beginning. This year there is the added impact of a new decade. When we write the date, this year we need to retrain our muscle memory to write two different digits instead of just one. The new year was on the minds of a number of our… Read More
Friday Festival: Advent Introspection
Advent invites us to introspection. We consider the year as it winds to an end, we consider the resolutions we so optimistically made eleven months ago (if we even remember them), we consider how we hope to move forward as we prepare to turn yet another page on the calendar. Many of our bloggers this week… Read More
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