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Our texts this week are here Our prayer for this week Every Moment Holy A liturgy for those who employ others A liturgy for those who feel awkward in social gatherings "Lydia's faith becomes immediately active: she is baptized along with her whole household, and she opens her home. Social and cultural barriers crumble, and this corner of the empire is beginning to be changed by God's grace." – Bri...

Our texts this week are here Our prayer for this week: Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia, we will be reading from several Acts commentaries. Commentaries mentioned – Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible) The NBBC Acts commentary by Richard P Thompson Acts For Everyone by N...

Our texts this week are here Our prayer for this week – “A liturgy before serving others” from Every Moment Holy (vol 1)  “All day long, as I watch the breeze toss these clothes in the wind, I imagine my prayers spinning away over the tops of the trees. This is good work, this prayer. This is good prayer, this work. So is digging in the garden, cleaning the chicken pens, washing the potatoes,...

Our texts this week are here Our prayer for this week is “Not Held” by Walter Brueggeman, from the collection Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth We highly recommend the book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Pádraig Ó Tuama reflects on Ilya Kaminsky ’s poem, “We Lived Happily During War” in this episode of Poetry Unbound We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia,...

Our texts for this week are here Consider utilizing the resources for Earth Day Sunday provided by our friends at Nazarenes For Creation Care nazarenesforcreationcare.com We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia, we will be reading from several Acts commentaries. Commentaries mentioned – Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bib...

Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week is from Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community , by Padraig O’Tuama Our sponsor this week: Nazarenes for Creation Care … Earth Day Sunday - April 24th 2022 - Nazarenes for Creation Care is offering this free resource to help congregations engage creation in meaningful ways this April 24th. This downloadable resource will include a special litur...

Our texts this week are here   Our prayer this week is here - "Palm Sunday" by Malcolm Guite  Other resources on our website : commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. Earth Day Sunday - April 24th 2022 - Nazarenes for Creation Care is offering this free resource to help congregations engage creation in meaningful ways this April 24th. This downloadable resource will include a speci...

Our texts this week are here Sacrifice Zones: geographic areas that have been permanently impaired by environmental damage (especially from toxic pollution or economic disinvestment), or places where people are inevitably stuck in inhospitable places (for example, island nations suffering from sea-level rise). In Sacrifice Zones , Steve Lerner tells the stories of twelve communities, from Brooklyn...

Our texts this week are here . Our prayer for this week is here: Blessed Be Our Table, by Neil Paynter (p 247) God, you have given us all kinds of plants, those that bear grain and those that bear fruit. O, taste and see that the Lord is good. You have given us, your word and law, sweeter than honey, sweeter than honey dripping from the comb O, taste and see that the Lord is good. You have given u...

Our texts this week are here . Our prayer for this week is here: “Revise our taking” from Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth by Walter Brueggemann Other resources on our website : commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. Check out the Lenten Devotional ! N4CC: How to Eat Together as a Church Walter Brueggemann writes about the geography of imagination in Israel’s Praise and how imagination must...

Our texts this week are here . Our prayer for this week is here . It is adapted from Justice for Immigrants, “Prayer and Liturgy Suggestions,” originally posted on the Justice for Immigrants website.   Other resources on our website : commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. Check out the Lenten Devotional, The Way Through , and Alicia’s Spotify playlist

Our texts this week are here   “Food means everything if you don’t have it and nothing if you do.” - Germaine Jenkins (see the whole conversation here ) Our prayer for this week is from the book titled Blessed Be Our Table (p 63) Other resources on our website : commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. Check out the Lenten Devotional "The Way Through"  Alicia’s Lenten playlist on Sp...

Extra content for you! Enjoy this bonus episode where we talk about the season of Lent. https://onbeing.org/programs/wendell-berry-ellen-davis-the-art-of-being-creatures/ https://www.ted.com/talks/katharine_hayhoe_the_most_important_thing_you_can_do_to_fight_climate_change_talk_about_it?language=en

In this Episode we talk about the Transfiguration of Jesus as recorded in Luke 9:28-36. This seemingly bizarre event defies our understanding (at least as westerners), which might not a bad thing... 

Our texts for this week are here . Our prayer for this week is here .   We recommend this brief article with an overview and further links about trauma-informed preaching.  Consider Romans 12 as a parallel text, especially for talking about forgiveness. Alicia’s discussion of forgiveness is in part influenced by an article by Matt Potts: “Mourning for forgiveness.” Theology 122, no. 3 (M...

Our texts this week are here . We frequently discuss the practices of reading the Bible from the margins, and a “dislocated exegesis.” For further reading, see Reading the Bible from the Margins by  Miguel A de La Torre , The Word Before the Powers by Charles Campbell , and Preaching as Testimony, by Anna Carter Florence . A companion text from Paul’s epistle: “You can be sure that no immoral...

Our texts for this week are here Our prayer for this week is a poem from Malcolm Guite: “St Peter”  Here is a version of the children’s song with motions "I Will Make You Fishers of Men"   Other resources on our website : commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

Our texts for this week are here . Old Testament references include: Elijah & the Widow in 1 Kings 17:1-16 and Elisha & Naaman in 2 Kings 5:1-14 Our prayer for this week from Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community by Padraig O'Tuama Our Greek word study via StepBible.org: ἐκβάλλω (ekballō) 'to expel' (G1544)  Discussion about "powers & principalities" from Charles Campbell, Th...

Our texts for this week are here .  Our prayer for this week from Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community by Padraig O Tuama Elijah & the Widow– 1 Kings 17:1-16 Elisha & Naaman– 2 Kings 5:1-14 Word Study via StepBible.org : ἐκβάλλω (ekballō) 'to expel' (G1544)  Other resources on our website : commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

Our texts for this week are here . A transcript of this episode will be available on our website.  Our prayer for this week is here . “When the water rushed into the emptiness you were surprised that you were surprised, that you could even feel the sudden wellspring when you thought all had been poured out. And then suddenly the sweetness that stuns you that tells you this was not all, this w...

Our texts for this week are here . A transcript of this episode will be available later on our website. Our prayer this week is from the Revised Common Lectionary web page – if you haven’t already, check out their calendar feature to add the RCL into your favorite calendar app. A Life of Jesus, by Shusaku Endo Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson. The scene Alicia refers to: “You and Tobias are hopping a...

Our texts for this week are here. A transcript of this episode will be available later on our website. Kelly Latimore icons Malcolm Guite sonnet Josh Ritter Song– “The Gospel of Mary” Liz Vice Song– “The Refugee King” Other resources on our website : commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

Our texts for this week are here. A transcript will be available later on our website.  The excerpt from Oscar Romero's Christmas Eve sermon is here in Spanish and here in English .  Other resources on our website : commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

Our texts for this week are here. A transcript of this episode will be available later on our website.  Poetry Unbound episode featuring Katie Manning’s poem “What to Expect When You’re Expecting”   Our prayer this week is from Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community , by Padraig O'Tuama  Also mentioned: The Overshadowed Preacher , by Jerusha Matsen Neal and “Hidden Joys: A Sonne...

The texts for this week are here . A transcript of this episode will be available on our website. Megan refers to the work of Ernesto Cardenal and the book Gospel in Solentiname. For many years, the peasants in Solentiname, a remote archipelago in Lake Nicaragua, gathered each Sunday to reflect on the gospel reading. Read more here . Quote from Thomas Merton: “To allow oneself to be carried away b...