In the past few weeks and months I have spent many hours, praying and meditating on call: my call, my sense of something new coming… just round the corner. Still intangible, undefined, ineffable (I love that word, and its use in Good Omens made me laugh out loud) – this call I have responded to… Read More
Friday Prayer: Blessed are…
Oh Lord, Blessed are the nice people, The listening people, The smiling people. Blessed are those Whose hearts break with yours, Who carry your protest signs when you give up, Who link arms in solidarity. Blessed are the exhausted people, The discouraged and broken people, The preyed-upon. And Lord, Blessed are your ministers, Your prophets… Read More
Thursday prayer: focus
May our eyes the eyes of our body the eyes of our mind the eyes of our heart attend this day to truth, goodness and beauty and where we see those things may we know that we are being pointed towards you Amen. Jemma Allen is a priest in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New… Read More
Monday Prayer: lifted
The wind of the Feast lingers. It remains in the thickness of leaves and tickles the pulse of life beneath our skin. It whistles beneath the wings of butterflies and moths, and beckons the flaps of flags and fingers of cloth on clotheslines to dance in the wake of its glory. Blessed be what lingers… Read More
Friday Festival: Separation and Connection
This weekend many congregations will celebrate Pentecost. We will talk about God’s power to break down dividing walls, build bridges over chasms that separate us, and make connections between people who can’t imagine themselves connected. Several of our blog writers have been thinking about separation and connection in their posts this week. “This year, our… Read More
Friday Prayer: Guide our steps
Holy One We are on this life’s road of hope and unknowing. We travel with burdens, questions, and fears. Guide our steps Smooth the way Comfort our hearts. Show us that you are here and encourage our weary souls until we finally see our hearts’ destination and you. Amen. Rev. Deborah Vaughn is a hospice… Read More
Pentecost Preacher Party
Pentecost is this weekend. It’s one of my congregation’s favorite church days, and they like to decorate boldly. We make Pentecost a “season” because we never want to take down the decorations. Will you celebrate the church’s ‘birthday’? Some congregations have birthday parties, where people bring gifts of paper towels, copy paper, coffee, or other… Read More
Ordiversary Party—June!
Today’s party is kicked off by the ever-fabulous Stephanie Anthony, a longtime RevGal who knows how to get a party started! I was one of the rare ones in my seminary class who came straight to seminary from my undergrad education, but it wasn’t something I had been planning for very long. A biology major… Read More
Thursday Prayer: anticipating Pentecost
Come Holy Spirit, fire in us the gift of your imagination; breathe in us the gift of your peace; dance in us the gift of your beauty; dream in us the gift of your wisdom; speak in us the gift of your justice; make in us the gift of your strength. Come, Holy Spirit, come!… Read More
Saturday Prayer – Cause and Effect
I tossed a pebbleand watched as the ripple grew into a wave that surged and crested. I was already up past my knees before I knew to call it a flood. Living Water, today my prayer is only keep me afloat. Amen. Jennifer Garrison Brownell serves as pastor at Vancouver United Church of Christ… Read More
