Spiritual Renewal and Praying with St. John In a world of chaos and confusion, you are the Word. While it feels that we are at an ending, you are the beginning.
“Make a way” … for sorrow and hope This album will catch your tears even as it catches your breath. It will give voice to your lament, hold you in its beauty, and gently, ever so gently, make a way in and through the sorrow.
Adam Wood, La Loche and Prayers for a Funeral Healing, Lord Jesus, healing. Healing for wounds still gaping, healing for broken hearts.
God by Our Side: Prayers After the Hurt When the children's cries pierce the night … we see God, here by our side walking our way
Prayers for a New Year Faithful God, it is January. Frozen, yet still the soil teems with life: life that is, and life that is to come.
Prayer in Troubled Times We said to ourselves, “We believe in Jesus plus white supremacy; Jesus plus comfortability.” We preached this in churches. We obscured Your teachings; there is no longer any prophet, and there is no one among us who knows how long.
Psalm 2: Which Son Shall We Kiss? You can't make the ideological rhetoric of Psalm 2 palatable simply by painting it with Jesus. At least, not unless you turn it on its head. Which is exactly what happens.
Prayer Litany: Psalm 2 through the lens of Jesus What happens when you pray Psalm 2 through the lens of Jesus?
Psalm 137, Exile and Rocket Launchers Songs of home, songs of hope, songs that keep a faith alive, are defiled and profaned when they become the trivial entertainment of voyeuristic oppressors.
Darkness is Rest & Passion Nest by Jacqueline Daley Part IV: Darkness is Rest & Passion Nest In darkness love ignites, passion soars, lovers unite In darkness we retreat for our deepest best rest In darkness we see our true selves best In darkness all God’s creatures find food for their nest Who can exist without darkness goodness?
At a loss for words by Brian Walsh [I had written this piece before the horrific news came out of Newtown, Connecticut yesterday.
Jesus & The Riot Squad by Andrew Stephens-Rennie Jesus was and is present on the riotous streets of London, of that I’m firmly convinced.