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Wilderness Communion for Lent
In the wilderness of Lent, we need nourishment. We need to know that God is with us and to go as far as to taste and see that goodness of relationship. That is what communion offers. Or maybe it’s just… Continue reading
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Wilderness Prayers for Lent
Six more weeks of wintered trudgingthrough a wilderness bereft of alleluias. The poet describes Another Lent beginning in a wilderness without any sort of praise. There is no joy because it doesn’t feel like anything matters. It is all dust.… Continue reading
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All Saints and All Souls Experiences Around the Table and in the Cemetery
There was a cemetery that I used to walk through looking at tombstones when I was a pastor in Maine. A friend showed it to me. She walked her dog there but now I run through cemeteries chasing my children… Continue reading
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Table Prayers for Families for All Saints and All Souls
I’ve been working on a couple little projects as All Saints and All Souls approach and was startled to discover that there are very few resources for these particular days for families. The particular resource I’m creating for families is… Continue reading
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Prayers for Proper 22B
Job’s question is the most difficult part of faith. Why do bad things happen to good people? Job gets it. Job understands the frustration of not having an answer to this question. But, his wife interrupts. Curse God and die,… Continue reading
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Prayers for Proper 23B
I can’t think about this man’s question to Jesus about eternal life without thinking of this passage that I recently read in Cole Arthur Riley’s This Here Flesh: I was sitting in McDonald’s wot my first Bible-study leader when I… Continue reading
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Blessing What Goes Undone
There is a chaos that arrives at the end of summer and a new school year begins. Even when I didn’t have children of my own, it was in my body. I expected there to be a huge shift. I… Continue reading
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Global Prayers and an Agape Feast for World Communion Sunday
We imagine our connection to the whole wide world on this particular Sunday where the table has no end. It reaches out of the sanctuary over the edge of town and across the borders of this nation. We share this… Continue reading
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Prayers for the Second Sunday of Easter
These prayers were written after searching long and hard for other prayers. I didn’t want to write my own. I wanted anyone else’s words to magnify my hopes for worship this Sunday but I just couldn’t find what I was… Continue reading
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Prayer Psalm for Trinity Sunday
In the United States, there will be a celebration of Memorial Day on the same weekend that the church calendar invites us to reflect on the Holy Trinity. Living overseas in Germany, watching and reading how my country of origin… Continue reading
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Let’s get cooking
Cooking is always about imagination and possibility. It’s about what these things can become together and I don’t think using words to attempt to approach God is any different.
We need each other to find inspiration. We share recipes and try new things. We wonder about what else could work even when don’t feel the least bit creative.
These pages are all about helping each other to cook up some good trouble. If you don’t find what you’re searching for above, please drop me a line to see if we can stir up some goodness together.
WELCOME TO MY KITCHEN
There are stacks of cookbooks in my actual kitchen and probably a sink full of dirty dishes leftover from another delicious feast but my virtual kitchen is full of liturgies and resources to pepper the worship experience in your congregation with love and hope. Find something new over in my kitchen.
“Cooking [up good worship] is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”
— Harriet Van Horn (adapted)
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