Elsa Anders Cook
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 16
That pressing question that Jesus asks of his followers just didn’t grab me when I first read it this week. It didn’t hit the nerve that it usually did perhaps because I need a Messiah to be vivid and real… Continue reading
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Backpack Blessings in Coronatide
In my first attempt at brainstorming for worship planning in the pandemic, I wondered how many blessings there might be as the school year begins. I wondered if there will not only be the usual backpack blessings but also blessings… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 15
My baby girl took her first unbalanced steps to the dinner table on Sunday night while my toddler has been working hard on her ABCs. She’s curious about these strange shapes. She wants to identify them and has even started… Continue reading
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Stewardship in Coronatide
I shared a few days ago some worship brainstorming for the season ahead and it got me thinking about the other big thing that often happens in the fall season in our churches: the pledge drive. Most churches still tend… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 14
This gorgeous reflection on 1 Kings 19:9-18 by Richard W. Swanson has got me thinking about silence. Silence feels all consuming right now. There is so much of it. Or, at least, there is for me. Continue reading
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Pandemic Worship Planning Ahead
I’ve peppered my little internet home with Ingredients for Worship during this strange season of life and liturgy. Most of these posts have landed midweek when I remember to do so because I suddenly realize what day it is. That’s… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 13
I’m finding it hard to enter the power of the miracle in Matthew’s Feeding of the Five Thousand. I feel myself withdraw and not in the prayerful and restorative manner that we imagine Jesus does in that thirteenth verse. Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 12
It has been over a month since I shared these pandemic prayers. I got swallowed up by the logistics surrounding our move across Texas. Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 11
It has been over a month since I shared these pandemic prayers. I got swallowed up by the logistics surrounding our move across Texas. Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 10
It has been over a month since I shared these pandemic prayers. I got swallowed up by the logistics surrounding our move across Texas. Continue reading
