Monthly Archives: September 2012

An Improv on Matthew 25:31-46

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Maren

Some reflections of mine about the scripture, about turning it inside out … We were hungry and someone gave us food – a mother’s oatmeal, a father’s barbecue, pie from a woman down the street, the Christmas cookie on a … Continue reading →

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Access Sunday, a true response to Pentecost, post 1

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Maren

Access Sunday in the USA is the second Sunday in October, Disability Sunday in New Zealand is third Sunday in June, UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities 3rd of December. This is a liturgy for Access Sunday from  Rosalie … Continue reading →

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A Gathering Prayer On A First Autumn Morning, September 24, 2012

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Maren

In the northern hemisphere we have just shifted into autumn. Here is a First Nations prayer from Canada to begin the season. The photograph below is from Matthew. Note from  R. Matthew Stevens As a person of Aboriginal heritage I … Continue reading →

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Prayer for United Nations International Day of Peace

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Maren

God, who never “teaches to the test,” help me embrace your requirement as an invitation to community — that I may do just peace and just economy, just environment and just eating, just medicine and just politics, just faith and … Continue reading →

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One-hundred-sixteen Pentecost days — World Communion Sunday Resources

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Maren

Here are two resources for World Communion Sunday, celebrated this year on October 7. These both come from the book Gifts in Open Hands. If you would like to purchase a copy of Gifts in Open Hands, please go here. A Call … Continue reading →

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One-hundred-thirteen Pentecost days — World Communion Sunday Resources

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Maren

Today and on this coming Thursday there will be resources for World Communion Sunday celebrated this year on October 7. Please feel free to send some of your own resources for this celebration If you would like to purchase a … Continue reading →

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Improv on James 3

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Maren

The Revised Common Lectionary calls for James 3, all those tongue metaphors. Here are some new ones of mine. The tongue is like … a pilot light that cooks pie or burns a house … fuse, trigger, cancer cell, or … Continue reading →

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September 13, 2012 — What do I believe? …109 Pentecost Days

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Maren

What do I believe? Sometimes the response is shaped like “Credo” and other times it is shaped more like reflection on the journey. Here are three — the first from Aotearoa, the second from Great Britain, and the third, a … Continue reading →

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Remind Us

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Maren

Todd Jenkins, whose hymn about living water has been in these pages and in Gifts in Open Hands and whose ongoing commitment to justice and compassion is unflagging is a pastor in Fayetteville, Tennessee. His words for people of the … Continue reading →

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September 10, 2012 One hundred and six Pentecost days — choices from Qatar

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Maren

Mario Dekker of Qatar offers a poem of choices … choices for justice and compassion … choices in a contemporary world. Consider the choices he offers and why he does so. Could you also create a poem that placed before … Continue reading →

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