Some of these resources are short rituals to be used within a service of worship; some are longer liturgies and will replace most, if not all of the regular service. These have an intentional flow to them, so please do not change the order, move the pieces around, or cut pieces out. Thanks! In some I have suggested options for music etc., to make it more flexible for your use.
(as world leaders gather at the Glasgow Climate Summit) Nations are gathering again. And in so doing, rekindle the light of hope for our world. On my cynical days, I say, “Well, here we go again!” Another climate summit. This time it’s the UN Climate Summit – held in Glasgow… Read More »Ritual for Leadership and Action
I may not know a lot of things, but I do know that Christmas is about something truly grand, and that it fights against all that would tear creation apart. Christmas Eve deals with the local congregation, but also the family of all Creation. It deals with the personal and… Read More »Christmas Eve in the Family of Creation
We do yearn so fiercely for peace, for justice, for healing of creation, for healing of our lives. We do yearn so fiercely for restoration of all creation, for joy, for a new world to be born. Advent is a time of holding on, in the midst of yearning, in… Read More »Advent for a New Creation
This service is a journey – through praise and celebration, through confession and grief, and on to hope and hard work. Based on Pope Francis’ encyclical “On Care For Our Common Home” (2015), it looks at both the beauty of all Creation, and its devastation by human hands, our hands.… Read More »A Service Of and For Creation
On Easter weekend, I got to do a baptism for a friend’s young daughter. I wanted to celebrate the value and worth of this adorable and lively child, in a world that would try to deny her value over and over as a person of color and a female. I… Read More »Baptismal Vows for Parents/Godparents
Who are the saints in your life? Your church? Who keeps you going? Who holds out a hand to help you walk the steep and treacherous path to justice and God’s kin-dom? Who are the sung and unsung saints you and your congregation wish to honor on All Saints Day… Read More »All Saints Day
What do we say when there are no words? Where do we find a solid center when the world is going crazy around us? Out of the depths we cry to you, O Lord! —from A Ritual of Lament and Promise Colorado, where I live, had yet another mass… Read More »A Ritual of Lament and Promise
When we get serious about the healing of creation, we stop living smoothly in the world. We become rough edges: We snag on Conventional Wisdom and Business as Usual We do not just gently slip by. We become raggedy church. This is a liturgy exploring what it… Read More »Raggedy Church
With each species going extinct, a light is extinguished. With each glacier disappearing, a light is extinguished. With each child stunted by lead poisoning, a light is extinguished. With each transgender and Native American woman murdered and missing, a light is extinguished. With each river run dry, a light is… Read More »Tenebrae for Creation
As Christians, we are ordinary people living in not so ordinary times. And as always, we are called to extraordinary action. Voting is one such action, particularly when there are many obstacles to voting intentionally placed in the paths of many people, especially people of color. This brief ritual is… Read More »Blessing of the Ballots