Monthly Archives: June 2020

The camels are the tipping point (Genesis 24)

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Maren

Camels spit, bite, and are generally unpleasant. Because they go so long without drinking water, they can drink fifty-three gallons in three minutes. Eliezer told God, the definition of true hospitality would be to ask for himself a drink of … Continue reading →

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June 28, 1969 — The Stonewall Uprising

Posted on June 28, 2020 by Maren

They had enough, and so we dance in the street, most years, and party digitally this one. We have pride and we have Pride and we have celebration, and new reasons to rejoice but also losses and new challenges to … Continue reading →

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For Caroline, class of 2020

Posted on June 27, 2020 by Maren

I remember our neighbors’ daughter, newborn home from the hospital, as I wait with my handmade sign to wave at her parade of high school graduates. I also remember that she and her sisters would come for trick or treat … Continue reading →

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Holy Communion Liturgy for July 5, 2020

Posted on June 26, 2020 by Maren

(Revised Common Lectionary readings include Genesis 24 — the story of Rebekah’s generosity and Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 (the un-pleasable generation and the invitation to an easy yoke.) This service is written for churches that offer virtual worship, but also this … Continue reading →

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in the wild — Guest Post Erice Carolyn Fairbrother, Aotearoa New Zealand

Posted on June 25, 2020 by Maren

It is always a gift to have Erice’s poetry. and thanks as well to the remarkable photography of a tui, a bird with two voiceboxes by Peter Feuerstein. God is the wild I live in the wild God is the … Continue reading →

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Prayer for the earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Maren

For those who grieve the deaths of six people, and all those whose homes are broken and lives changed, we pray. For those who felt the earth move more than a hundred miles away and who fear tsunami’s power, we … Continue reading →

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After Genesis 22: 1-14

Posted on June 23, 2020 by Maren

After father and son came back from their hill journey was when Sarah moved into her own tent, and not much more is said about her except she was dying probably from the inside out. And then Abraham was particular … Continue reading →

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Memory on Father’s Day, 2020

Posted on June 21, 2020 by Maren

Not from the myriad of being-the-Daddy recollections some sweet or sad or funny or embarrassing, but from much longer ago comes this one. At a quarter of six every night he would run up the hill to Cabot Street and … Continue reading →

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More Value than Many Sparrows? Matthew 10:29-31 — Guest post Stirling, South Australia

Posted on June 20, 2020 by Maren

But why would God count humans of more value than one expiring two a penny sparrow? It’s we who price resources of our earth convinced that human profit has more worth than all the fragile beauties freely given and meant … Continue reading →

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On June eighteenth I will say something … about Juneteenth

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Maren

Juneteenth is not about a white general’s words, or a white president’s words soaked in assassination blood, for the air is filled with the words of black Texans and the soil red deep down as time itself in the blood … Continue reading →

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