After Easter Sunday, the Easter “Season” is not quite over, not by a longshot! In the Christian Church, what follows the story of the Passion of Christ is the time that the returned Christ walked among his followers until ascending into heaven, to sit at the right hand of God, as the Nicene Creed says. ...
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In the church I attend, each of the three scriptural readings (the psalm is chanted, or read responsively by the attendees), is introduced with “A reading from ___” and then ends with “The word of God.” The (Christian, Bible-reading) world breaks into two camps of those who believe that every word in the Bible is ...
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Put down your feng shui manuals for a moment and let’s not think about the physical space that we make for God/Worship/Meditation in our lives (that’s a whole other homily about what I have here!) Think about the motions of our life. Consider the poise of your prayer. And look (in your mind’s eye, just ...
I have recently “updated” my prayer closet and brought it out of a small little nook in my house, and added to my home office, as I move into a vocation of ministry. As part of the exercise I have a very specific area of my office that is Sacred Space: A table, a chair, ...
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This is the first draft of what should be a much longer document, and I plan to add to it privately here, and publish again later. Based on the responsive-style reading of The Prayers of the People, here is my version of the “Prayers of Our People.” These are written to be used either as ...
