A Christian Hymn against Christian Nationalism
God abundant, God of wonder, God of every living thing, God of justice and of righteousness, empower us as we sing.
For all of you grieving the loss of someone you love — whether this loss occurred last week, last year, or decades ago — I hope you find some comfort in these words, too. I hope you have the courage to tell the truth about your loved one: the good, the bad, and the complex. And that you don’t break faith with the full spectrum of your feeling, from mourning to dancing.
"Leaning In: A Prayer of Intention" is a sung prayer of intercession that aims to break down the distinction between the typical "us"
Son. Father. Uncle. Friend. Human being. Child of God. What blindness could keep anyone from seeing the sacred life in this
My street is quiet now. Cars, buses, lorries, noisy polluters of our very breath, have fled in disarray.
Crises drive us from our comfort to the edge of vital choice, children speak the words we’ve hidden, simple words we’ve failed to voice.
The peace that we share when we turn and shake hands Is simply the peace that our Savior commands.
It is easy to get so caught upin the business and troublesof our own lives,
“At the center of the Christmas story is hope…hope which comes to us in the form of a vulnerable, poor baby. A child, not a king, changes the world. God appears to us as a marginalized, Afro-Semitic, Jewish child from Nazareth in Palestine. A child who grows up to teach us to welcome the stranger. How would our world be different if we loved our neighbors as ourselves?” asks the Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, senior minister of Middle Collegiate Church.
Reflection before the start of mass at St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church, Minneapolis
“Those now last will be first, and those now first will be last.” Let me just be honest and say that this was hard for me to read, if not a bit repugnant as it goes against everything I have come to understand about Jesus as an open and inclusive teacher who frequently transgressed conventional norms that were exclusionary.
Religious Naturalism (RN) has two central aspects. One is a naturalist view of how things happen in the world—in which the natural world is all there is, and that nothing other than natural may cause events in the world. From nature we came, in nature we are, to nature we go… The other is appreciation of religion with a view that nature can be a focus of religious attention - the ‘cosmic religious feeling’ as Einstein called it.
O God of empty tombs and resurrection living: Make us mindful of the pervasiveness of hope, the determination of faith, and the persistence of love.
Xavier Rudd and The United Nations perform @ LEAF Spring 2015. Since the very beginning, Xavier Rudd's ability to connect with people has been his most powerful gift. The more he has toured the world, the more hearts he has touched and the more of the world he has put back into his music.
One: A Blessing on you who are poor Many Yours is the household of God One A blessing on you who mourn Many: you shall be comforted
Can we get inside this story, Try to think as lepers thought? Totally despised, rejected; Life for them was worse than naught.
Written by Matt Carriker
Spiritual growth always happens most when we cross borders, in whatever form those borders take. God did not create borders. Humans did.
Enter my hearing, Oh, silence Soften my sight with love Rid my thoughts of harshness Open my search for good
Sometimes the footfall seems incessant, a challenge to our selfish greed, how can we clothe and house such numbers, our fears well up and veils their need.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
All of us have experienced mental or physical suffering at the hands of other people. But each of us has also brought suffering to others.
Open my heart, Pure Healing Power To remove emotional pain; Open this heart Pure Healing Power Again, again, again
by Jenelle Dove
Love, care, lend, do good; Only with our closest friends As they will for us.
From the Celebrating Mystery collection
1. Imagination is the midwife of compassion. 2. Compassion belongs more to the gut than to the heart or the head. 3. Compassion is sharing the passion of the other as well as walking in their shoes.
To live as fully as we can In every human way Is to fulfil our sacred right Each moment of each day.
Faith in goodness leads to serenity, where peace with quiet flows. With faith I can cease being a hostage in the jail of fear and grief, and escape the prison of what went wrong.
Idyllic beaches break the waves as bathers line the shore This view of peace is now disturbed: an aftermath of war.
If we claim to love our neighbour while the hungry queue for food, are we prey to self deception? Is perception quite so crude?
Lord, I’m a bit confused - you know that song ‘They’ll know we are Christians by our love’? I just don’t think it’s true