Amanda wrote this piece when churches were closing their doors early on in COVID as a reminder that church is more than a building.
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Dr. Brené Brown was at a low point in her life the first time she heard Willie Nelson’s cover of “Amazing Grace.” It was in the early 2000s, a period she has famously referred to as a “breakdown/spiritual awakening.
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.
Justin James Sinclair is a young man on a mission. He made retreats at the St Andrew’s Abbey and New Camaldoli monasteries in California, where, to his astonishment, he discovered a strand of Christianity that no one in the evangelical churches he attended, nor at Biola University where he studied, had revealed to him before.
The Angelic Sound of Healing, Relaxation and Spiritual Awakening
This book is not only a thorough and practical instruction manual to get started with crystal singing bowls, it offers inspiring stories and guidance from Ashana’s twenty-plus years of playing, teaching, and healing through crystalline sound.
with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
It is our hope that our time together nourished your spirits and inspired your work as the change agents, healers and light workers that you are.
Music For Churches. For Conferences. For people who worship
Our team that we send out as a band can be booked as an all-inclusive worship leading package, or in partnership with some of a church’s current team members who serve the band in worship.
An Easter Journey
A progressive Christian encounter with the Easter story that situates it within the longer story of sacred love and within our lives today.
So many of us are going through very challenging times. It's not always easy to stay centered in the heart and grounded in love. In the face of daunting stress, fear and uncertainty, to remember love and stay anchored in its embrace can sometimes feel impossibly hard.
Hersay brings healing and empowerment through songs with lyrics inclusive of the Divine Feminine, drawing from the musical styles of Taizé and other chant traditions. Female names and images of the Divine heal the wounds of patriarchal oppression and violence, and empower us to create a just and peaceful world.
From their 2017 album, "All Belong Here," this song is a new kind of call to communion, a call to remember who we are, and how much we are loved, a song that sees God's table as a place where we all belong, and that this whole world is God's table, where we can eat and be filled, where we can drink in the grace.
CELESTIAL SLEEP blends the exquisite musical artistry of Ashana and Thomas Barquee with alchemy crystal singing bowls, sound healing, and gentle guided meditation to create a revolutionary sleep solution.
Set in the shadows of a climate crisis and Covid-19.
In our present world today the impact and consequences of Climate Change and Covid 19 have been staggering.
Preeminent German hymn writer Philipp Nicolai was a Lutheran pastor whose small town, Unna, was devastated by the plague during the winter of 1597-8 with over 1300 deaths. He officiated at many funerals, as many as 30 a day.
This week, I was so inspired by what I wanted to share with you, I made a video so you could "feel" and see the passion behind the words, from my heart to yours.
Dina Datsko de Sánchez wrote this new poem for the re-imagined Homecoming Sunday at First Congregational Church, Long Beach.
Amanda Udis-Kessler shares LBGTQ+ hymns along with the sheet music – just click on the title of the hymn to open the PDF Sheet Music.
National anthems are often barely singable tunes with bombastic, jingoistic words. Doesn’t that fit the “Star Spangled Banner?”
"Leaning In: A Prayer of Intention" is a sung prayer of intercession that aims to break down the distinction between the
Covid-19 has separated us from our officially-sanctioned holy places and sacred things. The members of our church in Los Angeles yearn to get back to our beloved worship space. But we are seizing this opportunity to turn the church inside out. We are finding the sacred in the relationships we maintain with each other on computer screens, in the elements of communion we assemble from donuts and crackers and orange juice and coffee, and in the urban, indoor, and natural environments that have become our sanctuaries.
“Ocean” is a song of finding comfort in divine presence, yet still embracing some anxiety. A high-quality song download is FREE to the first 200 people.
When we realized because of COVID19 we couldn’t sing together, we refused to give up the use of music in our Gatherings; it is just too important. So we turned to the only source of music we thought could offer the same experience even if it didn’t involve singing along: YouTube.
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.
In his lifetime Jesus taught us To observe and then reflect On the laws that nature teaches If we pause and then inspect,
Senses sharpened in the silence, gently, quietly, feel your breath, know God’s love will never leave us, now, or in our time of death.
Franklyn Schaefer is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, arranger and composer. He published his first musical album in 2008 (Keep on Smiling) and has published two more albums and several single songs since.
Discover new words for a familiar hymn and a progressive interpretation of the 23rd psalm. As the world is coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, the 23rd psalm seems particularly relevant. Drawing from this psalm, The Trail considers, not so much how we gain protection or deliverance from a powerful God, but rather, how we find comfort and inspiration from a God who is the source of beauty and goodness in the world, even as we go through dark valleys.
Even during this global pandemic, a walk around the block yields moments of healing and beauty.