If you need some liturgical inspiration for this season, here’s some from your fellow RevGals — feel free to use or adapt or simply be inspired to write your own (and if that happens, we hope you’ll share!). Please give credit in print and video descriptions, but verbal attribution is not necessary. Call to Worship… Read More
Worship Words for 13 June, Ordinary 11B
There’s something about Ordinary Time this year, isn’t there? Last year it was Ordinary Time during incredibly Extraordinary times. This year we’re somewhere between extraordinary and ordinary, where actually the ordinary that we long for is also anxiety-producing when we experience it, particularly since it comes alongside the strange. Which makes liturgy written for “normal”… Read More
Ordiversary Party: June
It’s a new month, so it’s time to celebrate some ordiversaries!! This month we have the Rev. Sharon Sheridan Hausman, an Episcopal priest, to kick off this party. Sharon is celebrating her SECOND ordiversary this year — what a time to have entered ministry! You’ll love her story, and I hope you’ll share a bit… Read More
Worship Words for 6 June 2021
How is it June? Time during a pandemic is so strange. As different parts of the world are having very different experiences just now, it becomes ever more complex to figure out what to do, liturgically. Responses? Singing? Prerecorded online only? hybrid? zooming from the sanctuary with a live-in-person congregation at the same time? live… Read More
Worship Words for Trinity Sunday 2021
After a big week like Pentecost, sometimes our liturgical ideas for the following week can be a bit….underwhelming. Here are a few tidbits to get you started from other RevGals. Feel free to use them, or adapt, or let them spark your own writing! If you use them, please give credit in written forms/video descriptions,… Read More
Worship Words for Pentecost 2021
Many of us are still looking for new ways of celebrating the Holy Spirit doing a new thing this year…and some of us are tired, and others burned out from navigating ever-changing guidelines and infection/vaccination rates and rules and safety and public opinion and technology, and some are inspired with new ideas! Here are some… Read More
Ordiversary Party — May!
Happy May Ordiversaries!! This month our party is kicking off with a 15-year celebration: the Rev. Julie Higbee, who is an Associate Pastor in Fernandina Beach, FL. She and her husband live 15 minutes from the beach with their two cats. She was ordained on May 14, 2006 which happened to be Mother’s day that… Read More
Worship Words for 2 May, Easter 5
Are you in need of some inspiration for worship? Many of us are in a hybrid worship situation now, with both in-person and online worship happening in one form or another. That can make liturgy an extra challenge as we seek things that can work both for one voice and responsively, as well as meeting… Read More
Ordiversary Party — April!
Happy Eastertide, everyone! This month we are kicking off the Ordiversary Party with the delightful Claire Beutler-Cruise — a UCC pastor who, I learned from this interview, was ordained on the very same day that I attended a church service on my own for the first time in my life! The second Sunday of Easter… Read More
Worship Words for Easter 2, 2021
I don’t know about you, but after all the words we all used in the past week, I can use a little inspiration. Here are some liturgical pieces from members of our RevGals community — ready to be used or adapted for your context. If you can give credit in print or in video descriptions,… Read More
