Even though we’re a few months in, I still can’t get used to the Preacher Party being this early in the week. (That’s why I’m late in posting this!) I am truly a 11th Hour Preacher! But I know that, for some of you, Sunday’s service is already winging its way through cyber space, scattering… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Accelerated and Amplified
Are you finding that many things are accelerating and being amplified right now? Including our worship preparation? In many parts of the world, preachers are struggling to get materials online well ahead of their usual deadline, while others are working out how to manage safe in- person gatherings and still others, where it’s summer in… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Bound by what?
Where are you in your worship prep this week? Many of us are having to be ready to record services much earlier in the week because we can’t yet gather in person for worship. This week’s RCL Lectionary passages offer us the binding of Isaac, a prophet of peace, a covering of grace and a… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Mysteries of Faith
The Narrative Lectionary this week is in 1 Corinthians 15 with Paul laying down some credal stuff and talking about the mystery of resurrection, while the Revised Common Lectionary offers Acts 1 and the disciples questioning Jesus: “Is this the time…?“ Or you may be in Ascension. Or somewhere else completely. Where is your preaching… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: All in with the Risen Christ
The picture is a wonderful reminder of a blessed time right after Easter one year when I travelled from my home in Scotland to Virginia to hang out out with another clergy friend. We talked, we laughed, we cried, we talked some more. It felt like walking the Emmaus Road, Jesus by our side, sharing… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party:Apocalypse and Resurrection
At first glance, the Lectionary texts for both the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary are ones we might want to shy away from in our current pandemic crisis. But a second glance serves to convince us that they are just right for speaking into the weirdness and tragedy of our world today. There’s… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Lenten Traditions
This first Sunday in Lent, what is changing for you? Are there particular traditions that you follow this season of the liturgical year – things you take up or things you leave out of worship? In my tradition, we won’t sing the Gloria again until the Easter vigil – and by that time, way, way… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Conflict, chaos and calling.
The Lectionary readings this week give us lots of options – as ever. From Jesus withdrawing for a time, his calling the disciples, a controversial healing that resulted in loss of income for a community, a plea for peace in the early church community – all providing rich seams that have much to speak into… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Getting real again
It’s that season when, out of our routines, we lose track of the days. But Sunday approaches relentlessly. So what are you preaching this Sunday in the midst of what, for many, is still very much a holiday and yet, for others… Our Lectionaries offer us new beginnings in the gospel of Mark (NL) or… Read More
Thursday Prayer
On a day when the UK is participating in a General Election, we focus on hope and channel the Song of Mary: Cast down the mighty O God, send the rich away empty handed, lift up the lowly, fill the hungry. May we choose wisely – choosing personal discomfort over austerity that afflicts those already… Read More
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