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Elsa Anders Cook

  • Waiting for Resurrection in Coronatide

    Easter will come just as it has every year before because resurrection is promised. It happens even when we cannot fully comprehend its possibility. Resurrection still happens. I have been thinking a lot about hope this Lent. I’ve been thinking… Continue reading

    Waiting for Resurrection in Coronatide

  • Pandemic Prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Lent

    I’m thinking about my own prayer life a lot right now. I’m wondering about how I’m caring for the tender part of my soul that needs to grieve and sing and wonder — and it’s hard. It’s hard to find… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Lent

  • Pandemic Prayers for the Third Sunday of Lent

    I am trying to spend some time working on Holy Week things this week but I will confess I don’t think that I have ever preached on the Ten Commandments but opted to skip over it. It never felt like… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Third Sunday of Lent

  • Pandemic Prayers for the Second Sunday of Lent

    I really relate to Abraham falling on his face. I don’t think that has anything to do with the pandemic but the simple fact that I’m always tripping over myself. I am my own worst critic. I am endlessly hard… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Second Sunday of Lent

  • Recipe for Resurrection Awe Strolls

    Here in Texas there has been a terrible freeze. There was snow and it left a good chunk of the state without power including most everyone in my sweet Texas church back in Central Texas. We did have snow over… Continue reading

    Recipe for Resurrection Awe Strolls

  • An Affirmation of Faith for Texas

    Dear pastors, I hope and pray that you have someone in your life that you can call to say you have no words. You have a draft of a sermon and this week has been another beast so it feels… Continue reading

    An Affirmation of Faith for Texas

  • Recipe for Zoom Prayer and Pretzel Making

    I want there to be lots of fun options for connection and community in Lent. I have been brainstorming ideas and wondering what is possible while we are still online. I want there to be silliness in this season that… Continue reading

    Recipe for Zoom Prayer and Pretzel Making

  • Pandemic Prayers for the Return of Lent

    I do not feel ready for this season to arrive. I know that it will be different. It will be less disciplined but no less introspective than every other day since that first case changed our whole lives. There is… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Return of Lent

  • Pandemic Easter Affirmations

    I wanted to write a statement about what it means to be a person of faith when everything feels uncertain for the service I wrote for the Longest Night in 2020. I did it partially for myself. I needed words… Continue reading

    Pandemic Easter Affirmations

  • Pandemic Prayers for Transfiguration Sunday

    I love the transformation on this mountaintop. I love it so much but it feels different this year as we wait for what will be. We are waiting for what will come. We are hoping that transformation will come but… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Transfiguration Sunday