100 Days of Homegrown Prayer
Even as we take small steps toward life beyond the most restrictive restrictions of COVID-19, I am awakened to the ways we have already been transformed [...]
A Touch of Grace
By The Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster God is doing a new thing. That's what it says in the book of Isaiah chapter 43, at least, hundreds of years before Jesus. God is doing a new thing. Today, that new thing is marked by COVID-19 in ways we would never have imagined just [...]
The Holy Work of Loving God and Neighbor
By The Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster On a typical Confirmation Sunday, there are a thousand tangible instructions: sit, stand, walk, go, sing, speak. People ask, "What should I wear?" Family travel from sometimes literally across the globe (as near and far as France, Spain, Australia, Boston, Denver, Florida, Lake Forest, and Warwick [...]
Pilgrimage to Pentecost—Day 4: April 15
Christine V. Hides Matthew 28: 8-10 With great fear and excitement, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary hurried away from the tomb and ran to tell his disciples. But Jesus met them and greeted them. They came and grabbed his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. [...]
Alleluia, Alleluia, Give Thanks
Let this blessing gather you into the Spirit of God, in the spirit of Christ's promise of Easter newness.
Poetry and Prayer—Day 40: April 11
A Future Not Our Own by Ken Utener
Poetry and Prayer—Day 39: April 10
Benediction by Nicholas Samaras
Poetry and Prayer—Day 38: April 9
Prayer by Christian Wiman
Poetry and Prayer—Day 37: April 8
Otherwise by Jane Kenyon
Poetry and Prayer—Day 36: April 7
‘Tis a Fearful Thing by Jehudah Halevi