This week’s lectionary passage, saturated in ritual and tradition, invites us to consider the rituals of our own lives. Read More
The Pastoral is Political: Poetry as Cure for Being Gaslit
Poems (and psalms) alone are not sufficient to address injustice. But they can be a first step in the right direction. Read More
RCL: Grace in the Wilderness, A Poem for Easter 2020
This was first posted at Write Out of Left Field. Easter is a challenge for preaching this year, even with these very familiar texts. I wrote the following poem as I struggle to pull sermon thoughts together. You are welcome to use it in your worship with attribution. Please share any thoughts you have on… Read More
Saturday Prayer – Prayer Beads
How do these prayers work, I wonder. Are they many prayers strung along a line, hung like laundry to dry on a humid morning? Or is there just one prayer here? One prayer, with stops along the way? Are there pauses punctuating the one prayer with a ! or a ? or maybe… Read More
Friday Festival: Why aren’t you writing?
RevGalBlogPals began as a webring, a connected group of bloggers with the shared interest of being or supporting women in ordained ministry. In those pre-Facebook days, we kept up with each other by navigating from one blog to another, carrying on conversations in the comments that sometimes migrated from one person’s page to another. All… Read More
Friday Prayer: Haiku of John 12
What is clutched is lost The loosely held, ever lasts. The grain sprouts for life. The Reverend Julia Seymour serves Lutheran Church of Hope in Anchorage, AK. She blogs at lutheranjulia.blogspot.com and readsallthethings.com. She contributed to There’s A Woman in the Pulpit. RevGalBlogPals encourages you to share our blog posts via… Read More
Saturday Prayer – Dizzy
Oh, God, We are off kilter. Steady us. We are frenetic. Calm us. We are dizzy. Center us. Remind us that it is always the nature of the powers and principalities to spin the wheel ever faster and faster and faster until we are completely disoriented. Remind us that it is always the nature of your grace to… Read More
Friday Five – light
The Fridays come and go, and each week there are things in the news which catch our attention. It seems that in our present time wherever we are in the world – bad stuff is happening. People are being taken too soon; for unjustified reasons; for extremist causes and for hasty decisions. Earlier this week… Read More
Maundy Thursday Prep Party
Gals and Pals, it’s Maundy Thursday. Whether you are scrambling to finish a homily or find readers, or all set for the days to come, or wondering where to squeeze in time to ponder the Resurrection in the midst of scenes of the arrest and the Crucifixion, we’re here for you. Join the conversation in… Read More
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