Liturgy
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Liturgy—remembering together a holy week
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The experience of gathering, remembering, sharing in the liturgy is essential for us in Holy Week, not just the Sundays before and after.
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The gap in the text this week is all of the events of Holy Week and what they represent: a political execution of a political dissident.
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Why does it matter when we celebrate the Feast of Stephen? John? Holy Innocents? The challenge of tradition, innovation, and formation.
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Worship, Lent, & COVID-19
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I also wrote this letter to the congregation.
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Prayers for Gaza
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As of this morning 60 Palestinians were declared dead and over 2,300 were injured in a massacre along the fence in Gaza. Moving the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was what Rachel Shabi called “a deliberate upturning of international conventions.” And timing it for this auspicious date was an intentional thumb on…
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Prayers For When the Snow Refuses to Stop Falling
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Growing up in northern Michigan, the idea of snow in April isn’t weird to me. It wasn’t even weird to think about snow making an appearance in May or June. And at the other end of the calendar, we had to integrate snowsuits into our Halloween costume design. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get…