Heart of hearts, each day brings forth an awakening. Your creation bursts with the enthusiasm of new life and potential, drawing us into the depth of beauty, mystery, and awe. Your justice cracks the hardened shell of whitewashed history, releasing the hidden truth of untold stories. Your love encourages tender hearts to take risks where… Read More
Saturday Prayer
God, some I know make a hard rowing today, storm-tossed by worry, grief and doubt, trying to control the compass of the future. Others are in safe harbor and have heard the “peace be still.” Some have come to summer solstice and others are in winter beauty. Some are waking still full of Juneteenth good… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Eternal God, as our statues fall and our streets get new names, strengthen our resolve so our inner will matches the outer changes. Give us, we pray, the gifts of endurance, of a deep breath, of clarity, and of seeing our lies and living for truth. May we embrace change like a friend, instead… Read More
Worship Words for Sunday, June 21: When the Words are Wrong
Looking for liturgical language that suits this moment in our world — a world of pandemic, uprising against individual and systemic racism, virtual gathering, and so much more? Here we offer some…feel free to use as is, to adapt, or to use for inspiration for your own. If you use these in written materials, please… Read More
Monday Prayer
Infinite God, who still numbers the hairs on our heads, and who counts our value, one by one, we call out to you today the names of the people who touch our lives. Strangers, who pursue justice and force change. Beloved aunties and grandparents, neighbors, now seen at the end of the driveway, and co-workers… Read More
Saturday Prayer: Brokenness
Holy One, We are struggling, and the weight of loss and grief is breaking us. The waves of injustice upon injustice, violence upon violence are drowning our hearts. We pour out our questions of “why’s” and “why not’s”. We look for answers within our own understanding and experience… and there is nothing. We have chosen… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Ordinary Edition
“Ordinary” in the usual sense of the word? Not hardly. But we enter “ordinary time” this week, for those traditions that follow the liturgical calendar. Some might call it “Sundays after Pentecost,” but it’s the long (at least it seems long by the end) season in which we count Sundays after Pentecost and before Christ… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
God of wholeness, take us, we ask, not back to any kind of normal where we forget the gains won by bodies in the streets, ignore again the cries of outrage, and pooh-pooh courage in tennis shoes. Take us past our chosen ignorance, our sneaky use of privilege, our unequal burdens. Shape us instead, we… Read More
RCL: Without Ever Knowing the Way
The Revised Common Lectionary year A offers the opportunity to sojourn with the family saga that makes up most of the book of Genesis. Sadly, the first entry in the saga is not in use this year (Ordinary 10A), in which Abram and Sarai receive their call from God to get up and go. By… Read More
Monday Prayer: dawning
As the light pierces the morning, may it likewise pierce our hearts with love. Love for the stranger,love for the neighbor,love for the wounded soul spewing hate,love for the weary souls resisting the destructive forces let loose in the world. As the day unfolds may our souls unfold with tenderness.Tenderness for the grieving,tenderness for the… Read More
