Back in October 2021, a post floated around social media professing that “you can’t worship from your couch.” The post generated a mild sensation among pastors who serve churches taking full advantage of online ways to be “church.” Fast forward to the present, and yet again the internet is buzzing with a similar dismissal of […]
Image courtesy of Coffee Geek-https://coffeegeek.tv/ This prayer marks the transition from online back to in-person worship. You are welcome to adapt to your context. A Prayer of Thanksgiving for Zoom Holy God, we give you thanks that we can worship you together in-person in the church building as of next Sunday! At the same time, […]
I let my breath out slowly through my teeth as my baby kept screaming. I took out my phone and sent a friend a video chat of me, bags under my eyes, hair a mess, holding a tearful, grumpy baby at my desk. I didn’t speak, just gave her a meaningful look. She sent a […]
Holy One, Source of all good things in this world: Let’s be honest. It’s 2020. You’ve seen this year happen. In a year of pandemic, and politics, and isolation, and exhaustion, we feel a lot more like saying, “How long, O Lord?” instead of “in all things, give thanks.” Give us eyes to see […]
Loving God, While some of us are in the safety of our homes, you have called others to risk themselves and their families to keep our communities running. We give you thanks for the doctors, the nurses, the respiratory therapists, and all working in healthcare. We give you thanks for the store employees, factory workers, […]
A Story before the Meal I was not excited about my first in-person communion service during the pandemic. I felt like the virus was just taking away one more thing. It had taken from my life in big ways, like the deaths of people that I loved, and in smaller ways, like canceling first-year milestone […]
Several days ago John Dobbs wrote an article entitled “The Coming Pastoral Crash.” Clearly this piece speaks to some deep truths that many are experiencing because it has already been shared by a number of clergypeople with whom I am friends with on Facebook. You can read the full piece for yourself here. I don’t […]
New life is coming into a sick and suffering world for me this Easter, just as it did that first Easter. As I sat reclined in the dim monitoring closet of my OBGYN’s office listening to the heartbeat of the new life growing inside me, I realized I was beginning to understand Holy Week in […]
