Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 Romans 4:13-25 Mark 8:31-38 Now that we’ve officially launched Lent 2021 and the big joke is that people think they never left Lent 2020, it’s the perfect opportunity to remember that somebody’s always in Lent, pandemic or no pandemic. Yes, every day of every year people face their mortality, great losses, fears,… Read More
Monday Prayer
What would we do without you, sun and earth and air and water? Praise you, Creator, who set them into life and introduced them to each other! For the air has warmed enough for the dog and I to stand silent and safe in the road where snow and ice melted down to pavement, a… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Remembering
Remembering, O Light, that your sign of mercy is my sign of trust,from horizon to horizon, sunrise to sunset, mountains to seas. Taking a deep breath in, letting trust reach down to my toes. Remembering, O Life, that your time of patience is my time of wildernessthrough tumult and transgressions, and at last into the… Read More
Saturday Prayer: Frozen heart confession
Holy One, The ice that fell on top of my driveway, just shoveled last night, reminded me… Repentance is an act of daily, even moment-by-moment awareness of the depths or my stubborn nature, and the limitless Grace you offer me. Sometimes I resent this work of persistently seeking you. Sometimes I want my humanity to… Read More
Friday prayer: water, water everywhere
Water: the trinitarian substance that contains multitudes As a liquid it cleans, quenches thirst, and bears vessels between land masses It also floods homes and communities, leaving behind physical and financial ruin As a solid it preserves our food, locks toxic gases beneath permafrost, and cools us off in extreme heat It also induces hypothermia,… Read More
Thursday Prayer: God is good at loving
Dear God, I want to write lofty prayers,aspirations of laying down and picking up(worry/trust; judgment/compassionoverfunctioning/boundaries.) I want to be fullof the spirit of the season. I want to be creativeand prayerfuland have meaningful things to say. I want to be good at it.At Lent.At liturgy.At loving. But this is the season of fasting.Of letting go… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: And So It’s Lent
We find ourselves once again in Lent. Though it kind of feels like Lent 2020 never ended, we have made it through an entire church year since then, many of us figuring out ways to celebrate the seasons in new and different ways. Once we have an entire years worth of recordings, can we just… Read More
NARRATIVE LECTIONARY: Mary, the Samaritan, and the Better Path
Reflections for Sermon writing on Luke 10: 25-42 (1st Sunday in Lent) As the pandemic continues to radically change our worldview – simultaneously giving us a global perspective while locking us into a local bubble – it is time again to think of that always important question: who is my neighbor? I love that the… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
God of ash and dust, our ashes fill the world this year. The ashes of loss are present all around us: grief and mourning fill our days. Lost lives, lost time, lost companionship, lost work. We are ready to tear our garments with grief. The ashes of bitterness are present here: political strife and injustice… Read More
The Pastoral is Political: Normal Never Existed
Hi. Thanks for coming. I’ve been wanting to have this talk with you for a while. What I want to say is a bit awkward, but I hope you’ll hear me out with an open mind. There are some things that need to be said and I just can’t be quiet about them anymore. Here’s… Read More
