Liturgy Smoke from past lives hangs heavy about the city,Blown in from the West, ash covers up the sun.Where can we look to the future if we cannot see Heaven?How can we discern our next step when our past clouds the path before us?Pull us closer to our future, Oh...
How might some of our unquestioned core beliefs keep us from growing in the Life of Christ? On the fifth Sunday of Lent, Christopher Mack wonders how we might jump off the treadmill of unfulfilled dreams and imagine what arrival at purpose and belonging in the Life of...
Liturgy God of Sarah and Rebekah, Rachel and Leah,you are the God of our ancestors in the faith.But you are Lordof both the old and the new.While we sleep, you refill your merciesso we wake to fresh stores in the morning:our wrongdoing washed clean,the possibilitythat...
How does being made new connect with peacemaking? On the fourth Sunday of Lent, Vanessa Maleare considers what is required for healthy new growth in our lives and community. [2 Corinthians 5] How am I still being made new (i.e. growing)? How can I be my unique self...
What does it look like for us to care for one another’s pain? On the third Sunday of Lent, Gena St. David and Weylin Lee bear witness to pain & injustice, collaborative peacemaking, and hope. [Isaiah 55] Where do you notice scapegoating inside us and between us...
Liturgy Hosanna, Lord, thank you for keeping the promise of peaceLord, as wars rage, we remember you came to Earth as a newborn babeWe remember that we laid palms at your feet, shouting your holy nameBut today, we take pause and also remember—that we rebuked youRemind...
Are you longing to fit into empire or for belonging in the Kingdom of God? On the second Sunday of Lent, Kimberly Culbertson contrasts the allure of empire to the way we show up to protect one another in the Kingdom of God. [Luke 13:31-35] Where might God be inviting...
Liturgy Lord, who can see beyond the water in which they swim? The wisest among us still sees through lensesof empire, capital, profit margins:the only glasses we have ever worn. We brandish our weak toolsto cure the wounds of the world. Without you, we will have no...
Liturgy Lord, we seek results and answersWe fail to give our uncertainty up to youThis is our song of lamentOh God of perfect graceHelp us to remember that you workwithin our lives constantlyWhen the Adversary breeds contemptWe stir love and good worksWhen the...
What do we need to let go of in order to bear good fruit in our lives? On the first Sunday of Lent Christopher Mack looks to Jesus’ triumph over evil, injustice, and suffering as opening a way for us to ground pain in Divine Love . [Luke 4:1-13] As we begin Lent, is...