Episodes

Lent 2B | Psalm 22:23-31 21.02.2024 37:28

Two audio notes this week: There's a silent gap for several seconds at minute 20, but hang tight! It comes right back! Megan's audio during the prayer goes in and out. You can read the full text here: From The Lives We Actually Have , by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie "For when this pain doesn't make sense" God, I'm fumbling around for answers, reasons, meaning. I can&#3...

LENT 1B | Psalm 25:1-10 14.02.2024 43:22

SHOW NOTES Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week is from The Lives We Actually Have Alicia’s Ash Wednesday playlist and Lent playlist Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount Other resources on our website : commentaries, discipleship, lit...

Epiphany B: Psalm 72 27.12.2023 38:37

SHOW NOTES Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week: “A Travel Blessing” from Common Prayer: Pocket Edition “Epiphany Prayer” from Thin Places Everywhere: 12 Days of Christmas with Celtic Christianity. Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount...

Christmas B | Luke 2 19.12.2023 41:46

SHOW NOTES Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week: “There is a time to be born and it is now” – Awed To Heaven, Rooted In Earth by Walter Brueggemann “Christmas is for the brokenhearted.” - Chuck Summers “Every Valley (It’s Hard To Wait)” by Rain for Roots “How To Keep TIme” - podcast from The Atlantic Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman Browse our...

Advent 4B | Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26 | LOVE 14.12.2023 46:52

SHOW NOTES Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week: “A Liturgy For Those Waiting For A Dream To Come True” - Liturgies For Hope Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount Other resources on our website : commentaries, discipleship, liturgics,...

Advent 3B |Psalm 126 | JOY 05.12.2023 41:53

SHOW NOTES Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week: “Blessing to Summon Rejoicing” by Jan Richardson from Circle of Grace “In Death Valley, A Rare Lake Comes Alive” New York Times Inciting Joy , by Ross Gay Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainacc...

Advent 2B | Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13 | PEACE 28.11.2023 38:09

SHOW NOTES Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week: “For the Interim TIme” - To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’Donohue …. “For Those Who Bear Witness” - The Lives We Actually Have by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie “Jesus is what God has to say” - Brian Zahnd, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a s...

Advent 1B | Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 | HOPE 21.11.2023 47:16

SHOW NOTES Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week: “Blessing When the World is Ending,” Jan Richardson from Circle of Grace Alicia’s Advent playlist and Matt’s Advent EP Alicia mentioned Kintsugi pottery . Learn more about the beauty in the art of repair. Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to s...

All Saints Day B | 1 John 3:1-3, Hebrews 11 31.10.2023 38:55

SHOW NOTES Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week: Feminist Prayers For My Daughter “For a Faith Community” Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount Other resources on our website : commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. We’ll be b...

Proper 25 B | Deuteronomy 34:1-12 25.10.2023 40:21

SHOW NOTES Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week is from T he Lives We Actually Have – “Collective Grief” (p 74-75) Alicia mentions Dr. Mekel Harris’s Instagram account. Check out her full website here. Megan mentions Jan Richardson’s book, The Cure for Sorrow Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great w...

Proper 24A | Exodus 33:12-23 17.10.2023 46:23

SHOW NOTES Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week: “Liturgy for Wresting with God” from Liturgies for Hope Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount Other resources on our website : commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

Proper 23 | Exodus 32:1-14 | Sunday Oct 15, 2023 10.10.2023 46:27

SHOW NOTES Our texts this week are here (Megan is reading from the Common English Bible ) Our prayer this week: “A Liturgy For Those Who Worship The Wrong Thing” from Liturgies for Hope Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount Andrew Root, Churches an...

We're on SUMMER BREAK! season 5 coming soon! 23.06.2023 9:15

As we move from Pentecost to Ordinary time, we celebrate the beauty in the ordinary and take extra time for rest and play. We'll be taking a break from regular podcasting, but will be back in your feeds soon! Meanwhile, there are amazing resources continually available every week on our ⁠website⁠: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. Our quote comes from An Altar in the World, by Barb...

Pentecost A | Acts 2:1-21 23.05.2023 36:10

Pentecost A | Acts 2:1-21 Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week is Blessing that Undoes Us by Jan Richardson Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount Some commentaries assisting in Easter season: Jerusha Matsen Neal on workingpreacher.org and Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief Series) , Acts by Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Abingdon NT) , Acts For Everyone by N. T. Wright Brow...

Ascension of Our Lord 17.05.2023 43:03

Ascension of Our Lord | Acts 1:6-14 Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week is In the Leaving from Circle of Grace Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount Some commentaries assisting in Easter season: Jerusha Matsen Neal on workingpreacher.org and Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief Series) , Acts by Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Abingdon NT) , Acts For Everyone by N. T. Wright Bro...

Easter 6A | Acts 17:22-31 09.05.2023 44:26

Sixth Sunday after Easter | Acts 17:22-31 Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week is “A Liturgy for those Who Worship the Wrong Thing” (from Liturgies for Hope by Elledge & Moore ) Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount Some commentaries assisting in Easter season: Jerusha Matsen Neal on workingpreacher.org and Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief Series) , Acts by Bever...

Easter 5A | Acts 7:55-60 02.05.2023 46:51

Fifth Sunday after Easter | Acts 7:55-60 Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week is from Every Moment Hoy , “A Liturgy for Grieving a Death due to Violence” Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount Some commentaries assisting in Easter season: Jerusha Matsen Neal on workingpreacher.org, and Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief Series) , Acts by Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Abingdon...

Fourth Sunday after Easter | Acts 2:42-47 25.04.2023 38:38

Fourth Sunday after Easter | Acts 2:42-47 Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week is from Blessed Be Our Table by Neil Paynter Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount Some commentaries assisting in Easter season: Jerusha Matsen Neal on workingpreacher.org and Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief Series) , Acts by Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Abingdon NT) , Acts For Everyone by N....

Easter 3A | Acts 2 19.04.2023 44:22

Easter 3A | Acts 2 Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week is from The Lives We Actually Have by Kate Bowler Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount Some commentaries assisting in Easter season: Jerusha Matsen Neal on workingpreacher.org and Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief Series) , Acts by Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Abingdon NT) , Acts For Everyone by N. T. Wright Browse t...

Easter Sunday Year A | Matthew 28:1-10 05.04.2023 43:03

Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week is from Circle of Grace by Jan Richardson Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount Browse the rest of our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount Other resources on our website : commentaries, disci...

Palm Sunday A | Matthew 21 28.03.2023 35:45

Palm Sunday A | Matthew 21 Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week: “Jesus Weeps” by Malcolm Guite in the collection Word in the Wilderness … While we lament yet another school shooting in the news cycle this week, we remember that Jesus weeps over all of this too. There have been several commentators that mention a Roman custom of a show of force– that on the other side of the city P...

Lent 5A | Psalm 130 21.03.2023 43:31

SHOW NOTES: Lent 5A | Psalm 130 Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week: For When You Need a Little Hope, The Lives We Actually Have by Jessica Richie and Kate Bowler We talked about Homeboy Industries and the work of Fr. Gregory Boyle. Megan mentioned his book The Whole Language , and both Megan & Alicia recommend Tattoos on the Heart . Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/apla...

Lent 4A | Psalm 23 14.03.2023 42:48

SHOW NOTES: Lent 4A | Psalm 23  Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week: “A Liturgy for Those Who Are Too Busy” from Liturgies For Hope , by Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore For more about Brueggemann’s categories for Psalms, check out Spirituality of the Psalms . For more about using the psalms in prayer, we suggest Psalms For Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness , by Nan C. Merri...

BONUS: Trenches and Tables with Michael R. Palmer and Danny Quanstrom 10.03.2023 59:38

In this bonus episode, we invite you to tune in to a conversation about a new book from APA publishing: Trenches and Tables by Michael R. Palmer

Lent 3A | Psalm 95 07.03.2023 36:18

SHOW NOTES: Lent 3A | Psalm 95  Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week: “A Liturgy for the Morning After a Bad Decision” from Liturgies for Hope by Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https:/...