Sometimes the lectionary and the traditions of the church don’t exactly combine to make worship planning seamless and easy. Words of Jesus about divorce as the Gospel reading on World Communion Sunday? How’s that supposed to work? I offer no solutions other than being glad there are a plethora of wonderful World Communion Sunday resources… Read More
Friday prayer: communing together
God in all times and places, this weekend is the annual observance of World Communion Sunday. This occasion seems particularly poignant this year. Some clergy and congregations aren’t authorized to celebrate the Lord’s Supper virtually. Many of those that are will do so from separate spaces, given the dangers of the pandemic. And yet, the… Read More
Sunday Prayer: World Communion
To you, O LORD, we lift our hearts. Be mindful of your mercy and be faithful to your love. You are full of life — from the galaxies to the glaciers, from the rivers to the rainbows, from the north and the south, from the east and the west, with music and mystery all the… Read More
Monday Prayer
Worldwide God God of every corner of this amazing planet! The earth is so vast – I can never go to every part, every nation, every continent… It’s all beyond my imagining. And yet. And yet. We are joined together by invisible, indivisible threads. Around a table; gathering in your name we are united Yesterday… Read More
RCL: By the Rivers of Babylon
“By the rivers of Babyon—there we sat down and we wept when we remembered Zion.” This lament of the exiled Israelites is haunting. In fact, all the texts this week are haunted by lament, at least to my ears. I guess we come by the mourning of our past naturally. People of faith have been… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Pentecost 19B
Holy One, We come before you this morning, a community of the broken and the blessed* acutely aware of all of who we are and aren’t, in these complicated confounding times in which we live today. We celebrate, with our faith neighbors around the world, in the very breaking of bread and drinking of wine,… Read More
Tuesday Lectionary Leanings (RCL) – Union and Communion Edition
For many churches (including the one where I’ll be doing pulpit supply), October 4 will be “World Communion Sunday.”
The readings feel a lot more like “Marital Relations Sunday.” Read More
The Pastoral Is Political: We Are One In the Spirit?
I am fascinated by the story of Jennifer Cramblett, an Ohio woman who is suing a Chicago-area sperm bank for giving her vials from the wrong donor. She and her partner had chosen a donor who was white. They were given vials from a donor who is black. Among the complaints detailed in the suit,… Read More
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