I managed to see Wonder Woman this week. And, although that’s a genre of film in which I wouldn’t normally indulge, I loved it! The down to earth, underlying themes of truth and hope and love triumphing over evil and hatred and suffering, spoke to me at a primal level as I sought to escape the… Read More
Ask the Matriarch: Clergy Colleagues
This week’s question is from a Rev who has found online support for her ministry in the RevGalBlogPal community. Now, she is looking forward to relating to come colleagues in real life. Dear Matriarchs, In the first years of my ministry, I served a rural congregation with no nearby clergy colleagues. The RevGalBlogPals online community… Read More
Revised Common Lectionary: Swords and Sparrows
This Sunday’s Gospel texts ranks high on my list of “things I wish Jesus never said.” Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword… and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household. This is not the passage to… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
O God: Give me strength to live another day; Let me not turn coward before its difficulties or prove recreant to its duties; Let me not lose faith in other people; Keep me sweet and sound of heart, in spite of ingratitude, treachery, or meanness; Preserve me from minding little stings or giving them; Help… Read More
Friday Prayer: Walking in Pride
Holy One, We who fit in just pink or blue Are finding You in the rainbow of love’s expressions. We who have been comfortable in our binary lives Are learning the beauty of others’ realities. We have failed to listen, Lord. We have failed to welcome them. We have failed to speak up when they… Read More
Friday Festival
Our bloggers are reflecting on travel, and the baggage we carry, this week. They are our tour guides into new spiritual territory. Beginning with the intriguing lament, “I have always wanted to be a tiny-purse carrier,” Melissa Bane Sevier reflects on what we carry around, and Jesus’ instructions to his disciples not to carry a… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Corpus Christi
We thank you, Gracious God, for all the ways in which we are sustained: by heartbeat and breath; by food and drink; by medicine; by the love of friends; by rhythms of exercise and rest; by your grace, always by your grace. On this day we particularly give you thanks for Jesus: Living Bread. Whether… Read More
Tuesday Prayer
Good morning, Friend! I had a glimmer today that the upended way this world feels, the funhouse aspect of it all is really a gift I’ve heard of “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable” and here we have it. Famine, massacre, -isms galore, church ugliness, world ugliness and in the meantime, we move ahead… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Puzzle Edition
It’s puzzle Sunday! The puzzle is the Trinity! How to explain? How to avoid explaining? How to avoid a wide variety of heresies? What in the world to tell the children? If you’re tackling the Genesis text from the Revised Common Lectionary, the Tuesday RCL post has some helpful thoughts and direction. Let us know… Read More
Friday Prayer: Driving lessons
Dear Lord, Forgive my lack of wisdom and the way I can’t seem to follow your instructions. I insist on getting lost, and, I seem to like it that way. You offer gentle guidance and I drive away with no sense of direction. You tell me to ‘take it easy” and I end up with… Read More
