O God, You sent Jesus to teach us about Your love. He showed us that it included the children, whom the disciples would have turned away. Today we pray that we, too, can learn to gather them to our knees, lay our hands upon them and bless them.

May the sacred spirit of life’s adventure
Keep me safe when I feel afraid
Make me steadfast when I am sad

“Whosoever welcomes the littlest of these children welcomes me”
Jesus put children at the heart of his vision of the kingdom of heaven, but our society so often fails them
All: Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven belongs to little children

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We can grow closer to God and deeper in compassion – and we can understand our own traditions better – through more intimate awareness and experience of the world’s religions. Pluralism Sunday, May 5, is a time …

My friend, @SgBz, posts on twitter: “Whatever else prayer may or may not do, the 1st thing it changes is the one praying.” I reply: I agree. I’m not quite as eloquent in 140 characters as I …

Powerful film on the Evangelical campaign to change African culture with values from America’s Christian Right.

Creator God of many names, Give us your widest view;
We seek your Spirit none can tame, Your visions bright and new.

Leader: The presence of God is surely in this place.
People: The presence of God is everywhere.

Praise God whose breath fills all the earth
Whose love reveals our sacred worth

I acknowledge that i do not own any of these clips used in the making of this video. This video is non-profit and was produced with the sole purpose of spreading awareness of the campaign against GMOs …

If we want to know god, we must know ourselves….

We have a choice to make, and that choice will define each of us as a person, and who we are as a country. We experienced an act of terror last week that traumatized our nation and …

(Friends: Please “LIKE” my Facebook page for my new book, HITCHHIKING TO ALASKA – there, you can contribute to an ongoing dialogue about soulful service with your stories and musings. How have you been soulfully served? How …

We give thanks for families of all shapes and sizes, which provide such an important basis for love and support in our society.

Today we celebrate mothers in all their diversity:
Mothers who experienced the joy and challenge of pregnancy and childbirth to bring another human being into the world

In the young, elders hope for justice.
In elders, the young see the wisdom of faith.

Why may the majority of scholars be right, that the Bible is not a reliable book of history, although much of its historical sections are indeed based on actual events and real places in the larger picture?