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  1. The Artful 1 min read

    Our River: John Greenleaf Whittier (Poem)

    We know the world is rich with streams Renowned in song and story, Whose music murmurs through our dreams Of human love and glory: We know that Arno’s banks are fair, And Rhine

  2. Quotations 1 min read

    Morning Prayer

    This is a morning prayer written by Walter Rauschenbusch I have been praying this month as I work on my dissertation.

  3. Quotations 1 min read

    I Have Only Today (Prayer)

    This is one of my favorite prayers and one that was brought to my attention again today. My life is an instant,  An hour which passes by;  My life is a moment  Which I

  4. Quotations 1 min read

    We Must Awaken to Hope…

    We must awaken to hope, resisting the temptation to despair that history cannot be any different, that another world is not in fact possible. Here we must remember our sisters Shiphrah and Purah [Hebrew

  5. Poetry 2 min read

    They Have Threatened Us With Resurrection (1980) By Julia Esquivel

    A powerful and challenging poem I came across this week. They Have Threatened Us With Resurrection (1980) by Julia Esquivel; translated by Ann Woehrle It isn’t the noise in the streets that keeps

  6. Quotations 1 min read

    To Change the World Enough by Alice Walker

    To change the world enough you must cease to be afraid of the poor. We experience your fear as the least pardonable of humiliations; in the past it has sent us scurrying off daunted

  7. The Pastorate 1 min read

    “On the Harm We Have Done” (A Prayer)

    Here is a moving prayer confessing the harm that we the church can too often cause: OUR Father, we look back on the years that are gone and shame and sorrow come upon us,

  8. Quotations 1 min read

    Kierkegaard: Christianity & Sitting Safe and Calm

    A quote I came across today that helped me make sense of Mark 8:27-37: To want to admire instead of to follow Christ is not necessarily an invention by bad people.   No,

  9. Note

    Gustavo Gutierrez’s Definition of Poverty

    Gustavo Gutierrez’s Definition of Poverty: “What then does being poor mean? I believe that a good definition does not exist; but

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  10. Quotations 2 min read

    ‘what thou hast been to me in the night’ James Nayler (A Psalm)

    I’ve was reading a variety of quotes from early Friends in preparation for my message on Sunday and stumbled ever so timely on this one. It speaks to my current condition as something

  11. The Theological 1 min read

    ‘even the thorn-bush by the wayside is aflame with the glory of God’ (Prayer)

    Here is a prayer out of the Walter Rauschenbusch book of prayers “For God and the People: Prayers of the Social Awakening.” I believe at least the middle paragraph can be attributed to St.

  12. The Pastorate 1 min read

    Advice to Ministers – Hannah Whitall Smith

    Here is sound advice written to ministers, but really it’s good for any situation. “Years ago I came across this sentence in an old book: ‘Never indulge, at the close of an action,

  13. Quotations 1 min read

    Quote: Presence is a Situation

    What a great quote to reflect on for Christmas and the arrival of God in creation. It makes me think about all of the opportunities we have had as of late, with the increasing

  14. Uncategorized 1 min read

    Nouwen and The Discipline of Gratitude

    I really like what Henry Nouwen writes about the discipline of gratitude: Gratitude … goes beyond the “mine” and “thine” and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past

  15. Uncategorized 1 min read

    Fox On Black Friday

    I came across this in my reading the other day and it made me think of some of the stuff I’ve seen from Rev. Billy Talen, especially in the documentary on Christmas, and