Elsa Anders Cook
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Pandemic Prayers for Epiphany
A new year dawns. 2020 is over. That is the hope that we have put all of our energy into as we count down the last few days of this wretched pandemic year. We are waiting even after Advent is… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Advent 3
I hope you already found the beautiful prayers gathered by RevGalBlogPals in their weekly Worship Words. I am honored to contribute to this collection of wonderful prayers and appreciate the nudge that to remember that those in the Southern Hemisphere… Continue reading
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Pandemic Longest Night and Christmas Eve Worship
If you’ve been clicking around From My Kitchen or found my newsletter earlier this week in your email, this is old news to you. You are busy, dear pastor. You have already seen this. You can go do the many… Continue reading
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An Advent Invocation
Remember when I said I wasn’t going to offer weekly prayers? That is still my intention but it seems that I cannot write Christmas Eve without first wandering into the lamentation and hope of Advent. I have been working on… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Advent and Christmas
Though I am not posting weekly prayers during these four weeks, I do not want to leave you orphaned. I also do not think that I am Jesus. For some reason, that Gospel Lesson is working on me so there… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 29, Thanksgiving and Keeping Watch Under Pandemic Skies Release
I have already moved into Advent. I made the leap. The Christmas carols have been turned on though I’m refusing to put the tree until after Thanksgiving. It feels like it has been Advent for months already though, doesn’t it?… Continue reading
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Lessons and Carols in Coronatide
Christmas will look different this year. Our favorite traditions will not have the same warmth as being gathered in the same sanctuary singing beloved carols and lighting candles for the Light of the World. It will be different, but the… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 28
As in the days before ballots were being counted, music is where my heart is led. I haven’t yet turned on the Christmas carols but I’m close. I’m really close. Continue reading
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Pandemic Liturgy for Advent
If you read my newsletter, you may have already clicked over to these painting advent videos and wondered what might be done with them. I started thinking about them again Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 27
As I continue to try to write these prayers ahead of the Lectionary cycle, I’m writing these prayers when early voting is still happening in the state of Texas among others. I’ve cast my ballot but I do not know… Continue reading
Cooking with Elsa 