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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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Self-Guided Retreats to Wander in the Nearby Cities and Forests
Though I haven’t written much about our adventures through Europe in the past year, my family and I have been busy exploring Europe. We have seen and done a lot in our brief time here and it feels like there… Continue reading
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Resurrection Anytime for Easter Worship Celebrations Anywhere
Though we are long past the coronatide season of needing to worship anywhere but inside a church building, my family and I are living in Germany where we do not have a church. It’s not that there aren’t churches here.… Continue reading
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NEW Downloadable Retreats to Explore the Wonder of Place
In the middle of Lent, I found myself without my children or my husband in an unfamiliar city in Germany. My mind is often filled with caring for other people and tending to the things that need to be done… Continue reading
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Psalm for the Second Sunday after Pentecost
In these early days of summer when school has not yet released, the church calendar is so often filled with all the celebrations. Pride. Graduations. Confirmation. Every Sunday it seems like there is a really good reason to have cake.… 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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