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
A whole new world may yet be born… God, we need to hear those words! And believe them! We live in such dire times – and it’s been hard and excruciating for so many people for decades and centuries, too, not just in recent times. We have always lived in… Read More »We Will Not Keep From Singing
I can’t say this enough – we are connected to each other! Down to our very cells, to our very DNA – we are created for connection, for relationship. We often forget this. God calls us again and again to remember that we are one, that we are connected to… Read More »Creation Will Dance
We know what is happening. We know what it takes to bring healing to our earth. In confession and grief we will enter into the shadows. And with each other – in community – we will sit together, and the light will return. It’s all of one piece. Doing needs… Read More »Lament, Rant and Affirmation of Faith
Coyote-song thrills back and forth across the road on cloudless summer dusk… River-song curves the bottom of the canyon… Drum-song in the adobe church Christmas Eve midnight… The song of Creation is diverse, and is teacher, lover, challenger, witness, life-giver. This poem recalls songs I have been able to witness… Read More »Oratorio
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
Falling in love with Creation means falling in love with ourselves each other our neighbor And who is our neighbor? “Won’t you be my neighbor?” sings Mr. Rogers gently, looking straight into the camera, into the eyes of watching children, outsiders all (because they’re not on the set right there… Read More »Falling in Love with Creation
We are in this together. We are in this together. We are a community, a beloved community, earth community. The goodness of Creation is real, the holy is in our midst, we are in this together, and together we move through the seasons of our times – the upheaval, the… Read More »Affirmation of Faith During These Times
Oh God of time and space we confess we are running out of both. Church is good at lament, and knows that it needs to be voiced as a community, a nation. In fact, one of the tasks of the prophet, according to biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann, is to help… Read More »Prayer of Confession and Lament for Creation
Church has always had such powerful images for connectedness – Body of Christ, people of the table, covenant, communion of saints, for example. They transcend both time and space. They’re who we are. This reading celebrates and affirms our connectedness to all creation, and offers another image for our reflection… Read More »For Comfort and Calling