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  • Pandemic Prayers for Proper 10B

    I loved the movie. I did. I still do but I always found this one repeated line creepy. It’s the same line that I hear repeated in the Gospel Lesson forcing us to wonder how any one of us will… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Proper 10B

  • Pandemic Prayers for Returning to In-Person Worship

    I have hesitated to share any particular prayers for gathering together in-person again because it feels so unique to each circumstance. There is something particular about this experience. It involves a particular group of people. It is the unique story… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for Returning to In-Person Worship

  • Pandemic Prayers for the Fourth of July

    I confess that I don’t really know the date. We have lived in this hotel for nearly a month now and I have lost all sense of time so that it was not evident to me that the calendar would… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Fourth of July

  • Illuminating the Way to Hope in Another Pandemic Lent

    Years ago, and I mean years ago, I wrote this liturgy for the six Sundays in Lent. It was an extended Tenebrae or a reversal of the Advent wreath. I wish I had explained it better in the original post.… Continue reading

    Illuminating the Way to Hope in Another Pandemic Lent

  • 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

    Pandemic Longest Night and Christmas Eve Worship

  • 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

    Stewardship in Coronatide

  • How Shall We Pray?

    For the past several weeks, I’ve offered prayers as a gift to my colleagues in ministry who are serving faithfully during this pandemic. I’ve written liturgies following the Revised Common Lectionary that I have hoped were copied and pasted into… Continue reading

    How Shall We Pray?

  • Ingredients for Worship in Holy Week

    Though I’ve continued to write liturgy throughout the season of Lent for my lovely church here in Texas, I have completely failed to pepper my blog with any of those prayers. I managed to share semi-regular posts during Epiphany but… Continue reading

    Ingredients for Worship in Holy Week

  • A Service to Break Down Walls on Ash Wednesday

    Sometimes cooking begins just by opening the pantry and realizing that that something delicious with peanut butter (because you mysteriously have a surplus of peanut butter) sounds really good. That’s kinda how this service came together. It all started with… Continue reading

    A Service to Break Down Walls on Ash Wednesday

  • Prayers for Epiphany 5C and 6C

    I am blessed and honored to continue to cook up liturgical elements for worship at the United Christian Church in Austin. Admittedly, it feels like I haven’t been in the kitchen in a very long time. I’m editing more. I’m… Continue reading

    Prayers for Epiphany 5C and 6C