pandemic lent
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Pandemic Prayers for Palm Sunday
I have been so lucky to write prayers in this season that I know have been a blessing. Some of you have kindly commented and encouraged me. Some have messaged me and thanked me personally. Others have commissioned me to… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for the Fifth Sunday of Lent
We began the new year with Jeremiah. It was the same chapter even though it was a few verses earlier. There was still the invitation to remember and hold onto what might be coming. We are still in that space… Continue reading
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An Easter Pageant for a Pandemic Year
This year, we have done things differently. Worship has been different and there have been surprises. There are things that have happened in worship that never would have been possible if we had not been forced into online worship for… Continue reading
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Holy Week in Coronatide
I hadn’t yet started writing pandemic prayers when Holy Week came along last year. Like so many, I was blissfully unaware of what was ahead. We had cancelled a vacation that we will actually be venturing into next week. My… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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