The photo is my favorite insulated portable tea mug. It reminds me of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony award acceptance speech right after the Orlando massacre. “Love is love is love is love.” Whether you are in the RCL or the Narrative lectionary, there is lots of love talk this week. In the RCL gospel Jesus promises… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Who Relates to Thomas Now?
Are you writing, huddled in your house, like the disciples in the Revised Common Lectionary (Discussion Here)? Are you waiting to see what happens next as Jesus ascends in the Narrative lectionary (Discussion Here)? Are you using a series or other passages to see you through these different times? Are you preparing technology for a… Read More
Narrative Lectionary:End of the World As We Know It (Mark 13)
Hello friends. In these days, I pray you are taking time for your own spirit and soul in the midst of all the new work we find ourselves facing. Not sure how you are feeling it, but all of the new logistics support I’m doing, and being away from my people while I’m wanting to… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: A Long Lent continues
I think it’s Lent 4. What are you doing for this long sequestered Lent that we are experiencing? Are you streaming or zooming or recording? We cancelled late in the week last week and ended up not doing anything, so we recorded an abbreviated version of Lent 3 for this week and will go on… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: T-Fig
It’s the last Sunday before Lent. Are you burying or otherwise saying farewell to the alleluia? Will you be preaching the Transfiguration? Revised Common Lectionary folks can find a discussion of Matthew’s text here. The post includes an interrogation of the Light/Dark imagery in the passage, and offers ways to approach it. Narrative Lectionary folks can… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Come and See
Here we are in the first short section of Ordinary Time or the Season After Epiphany. The hoopla of big feast days is well and truly over. Are you following Jesus through these days of ordinary time? Are you doing a short series before Lent is upon us? Will you ordain and install officers? Are… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: The Waiting Is Ending
And so we come, once again, to Advent 4. We light 4 candles. Will you sing a carol or 2 or stick with Advent hymns only? Do you have a pageant or a cantata and a brief reflection? Or is it a week for a full sermom? If you are preaching, are you with Elizabeth… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Last Week of Ordinary Time
When I think of Ordinary Time, I think of green and of trees. I understand why green; I’m not sure why trees. I took this photo as I set up for worship at our late September church camp worship service in the midst of Ordinary Time. This week, we finally come to the end of… Read More
Friday Festival: Early Lent
Hello, all! I’m filling in on today’s Friday Five, which has reminded me that a lot of people are practicing, practicing, practicing — and then writing about their Lenten practices. In The Edge is Here, Elaine is writing about words, words, words for Lent. Her exploration of the word “possess” asks us: What do… Read More
Pastoral is Political: Until We All Win
My social media timelines are filled with pictures of Serena Williams, arguably the greatest athlete in the world, angrily yelling at the tennis umpire in the U.S. Open. I don’t watch tennis, football is my sport, but I have to say that I have been a big fan of Serena’s for a long time. It… Read More
