We need to confess, Holy One, that the world has made profane the sacred calling that is teaching; the sacredness of caring for our children and our futures is dismissed as menial labor, undervalued and sorely underpaid. Redeem us from the world’s thoughtlessness and help us to bless those among us who have answered this… Read More
Monday Prayer: May 19, 2022.
This prayer is for the hurting kids, Loving God. The ones who never got the care they needed; the ones who cower under blankets, because the broken love of this world feels like utter chaos. These are the kids who never got the stability, attachment, and consistency to gain the courage it takes to love.… Read More
Monday Prayer May 16, 2022
We are grieving, Holy God, all of the senseless deaths. Over six million from pandemic alone, and countless more from famine and economic struggle. Unexpected ones — preventable ones — from lack of access to healthcare resources, and let’s not forget the toll of war. Because if anything defines “senseless” it is the acts of… Read More
Sunday Prayer, Seeing Christ May 15, 2022
In the church member who sits alone in the back pew crying silently, May I see the face of Christ. In the stranger who looks lost in my closed and gated community, May I see the face of Christ. In the child who knocks at my door asking me to play when I assume I… Read More
Monday Prayer, May 9, 2022
A Prayer for Everyone This one is for the anxious one, the ones who can read every emotion in an overcrowded room and the empathy of every conflict there. God, we pray they find comfort and peace. This one is for the misguided one, the ones who wander far, searching for the long way home.… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Called Wisdom (May 8, 2022)
Mother God, In the scriptures you are called Wisdom, the Sophia of our ancient days. And we call upon that Wisdom again today. For the world continues to dismiss, to diminish, and to debase the Feminine among us. The war against women’s bodies is really a challenge to the Wisdom that comes only from Sophia,… Read More
Monday Prayer – At Emmaus
God of the lakeshore — feed us. God of the doubters — reassure us. God of the road home — reveal yourself to us. God of the Spirit unleashed — advocate for us. And God of the empty tomb — remind us that since the beginning you have called the women, the broken, the disenfranchised… Read More
Monday Prayer: Still Dark Places
It is Monday, Holy God. But many of us find ourselves in the still dark places of an empty tomb, for no one has become the body of Christ for us – in our empty moments, in our lonely fraught. We are still left longing for recognition, for a word of comfort and promise. For… Read More
The Pastoral is Political: Consumerism Kills
In Biblical terms, the word for “consume” means to waste or burn away (the Hebrew is “shmad”). To consume literally means to burn up. It is an act of violence. To lay waste to. To use up, expend, dissipate. I think of this more and more as we continue to have conversations of about our… Read More
Narrative Lectionary: The Tragically Flawed Hero
Sermon ideas for 1 Samuel 16: 1-13 (The Anointing of David) With the October 1 release of The Many Saints of Newark (2021) – IMDb we are once again reminded of the beauty of the Tragically Flawed Hero. And just as the long-awaited Sopranos prequel locates Tony as the young adult poised to be anointed… Read More
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