This intercession was written for Holy Trinity Anglican Church Yarram, South Gippsland, Australia.
Q&A with Rev. Deshna Shine
There are also many scientific studies that show words have energy and can affect living beings being spoken to. Plants exposed to kind words grow more and are healthier than ones who experience silence or negative words.
Christian Spirituality and Shamanism as Pathways for Wholeness and Understanding
What can Christianity learn from Shamanism? What can Shamanism learn from Christianity? The conversation starts here…
With Andrew Harvey
40 days & 40 nights: A Journey of Prayer and Contemplation
I was blessed at birth And have struggled to reclaim the blessing In my innocence, I was loved unconditionally Simply for being me,
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.
O God, let us take in the moment of this day of crucifixion, not remembering it in the context of what came after it, but how it left Jesus’ disciples and followers in tragic sadness and heart-wrenched disillusionment.
Can prayers be narcissistic? A great many prayers are in the first person, like the laments in the Psalms. “God help me, rescue me, forgive me, heal me” are typical petitions in the first person. But praying for oneself can become narcissism when concern for oneself supersedes loving our neighbors.
A practice for individuals and churches
You can “walk” these stations by practicing one station per day, from March 20 through Good Friday, April 2 – or at any other time or manner during Lent (Ash Wednesday, February 17, until Easter Sunday, April 4).
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Every so often, I put out a "musing" that is a guide to my writings and videos. It's that time when churches make plans for their program year, so this is a good moment to share links to my materials for worship, study, and spiritual practice. Use freely. All I ask is attribution!
We tune our hearing to silence. We wait on the source of being. Our minds release the roar of thoughts.
Anyone who isn't prepared to do the intense work that is required to become love in action, is allowing the dark to destroy the planet.
An index of resources posted each day on the Spirituality & Practice homepage — practices, readings, films, quotes, and more to help you navigate these times.
By Neil Douglas-Klotz
Neil Douglas-Klotz offers a radical new translation of the words of Jesus Christ with Prayers of the Cosmos. Reinterpreting the Lord’s Prayer and the Beatitudes from the vantage of Middle Eastern mysticism.
On being a non-anxious presence in an anxious time. How centering prayer can help us to be present to Presence.
Spiritual practices to disarm fear and uncertainty, use while taking preventative measures, handle social distancing and quarantine, be present with illness, and sustain hope.
From cradle to coffin we live out our time We ponder existence seeking reason and rhyme
Prayer invites us to quiet our spirits, to quell the distractions that otherwise avert our attention from virtues to banalities of existence.
It is easy to get so caught upin the business and troublesof our own lives,
We must cultivate peace in our own hearts first, allowing the Peace of Christ to root there. This is our work as we pray for peace in the whole earth.
I Pray Anyway. Devotions for the Ambivalent by Joyce Wilson-Sanford is comprised of 365 daily reflections and 12 monthly personal stories. It tells of the author’s return to a prayer/devotions practice as she shares her own very naked, very funny, very touching prayers and reflections.
God, there are days we do not feel grateful. When we are anxious or angry. When we feel alone. When we see and know injustice. When we do not understand what is happening in the world, or with our neighbors.
Prayer invites us to quiet our spirits, to quell the distractions that otherwise avert our attention from virtues to banalities of existence.
As suggested by the title, the book takes a progressive approach to religion, seeing the critical biblical analysis of the past 200 years and the discoveries of science as friends rather than enemies in the ongoing quest for truth.
Is resurrection just a story Or is it the uncovering of our sight Some of the greatest followers Did not recognize the one they once knew
The Center for Open and Relational Theology exists to promote... open and relational thinking, networking among like-minded people, projects that build upon or advance open and relational ideas, announce news, and provide open and relational theology resources.
Young Joseph the dreamer was sent o'er the border — No say in the matter — it wasn't his plan. He entered the country and as he got older, He worked with ambition to make it his land.