Readings & Prayers

These can be used within a regular service of worship, or at other occasions such as a church retreat, a special prayer service, or even just in your newsletter or at a meeting.

Dark-Light Times

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I’m fed up with “dark” being equated with bad, and “light” with good. It just isn’t so. So I wrote this poem. It’s  not about times of struggle between the light and the dark, with one being good and the other evil, but rather the struggle between evil – despair… Read More »Dark-Light Times

Beloved Community

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There is something of life in beloved communities of hope and hard work. They help us recognize life still real beneath parched, empty grasses,     even as we stand in the wind-kicked barren dust, the dirt blowing over bare hills. “Beloved Community” is a term that has become dangerously close… Read More »Beloved Community