Disability awareness and advocacy
Who have we unintentionally excluded? What barriers keep the full body of Christ from gathering and participating? Whose voices are we talking over? Whose gifts and leadership remain untapped?
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Pentecost Sunday — June 5, 2022
A Looking into the Lectionary reflection by Teri McDowell Ott.
Order of worship — June 5, 2022
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Doing and being church
The editorial from "Gathering as the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.): General Assembly 2022."
Nature personified
In adrienne maree brown’s futuristic short story “the river,” a Detroit girl makes extra money by taking passengers on boat tours.
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A prayer in response to the recent shootings in New York, California and Texas
God of grace, we lament the violence.
Seeing red
Debates over masks, vaccines and critical race theory have escalated. Brawls are breaking out on airplanes. In my small town’s rural district,..
Order of worship — May 15, 2022
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5th Sunday of Easter — May 15, 2022
Easter 5C Revelation 21:1-6 “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth..
4th Sunday of Easter — May 8, 2022
Easter 4C Acts 9:36-43 “Women hold up half the sky.” I was first introduced to this Chinese proverb through Nicholas Kristof and..
Order of worship — May 8, 2022
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3rd Sunday of Easter — May 1, 2022
Easter 3C John 21:1-19 Recently, a friend called to ask me to preach at a large event. I received the call in..
Order of worship — May 1, 2022
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Order of worship — April 24, 2022
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2nd Sunday of Easter — April 24, 2022
“Southern trees bear a strange fruit/ Blood on the leaves and blood at the root.” These chilling lyrics from Billie Holiday’s 1939..
Order of worship — April 17, 2022
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Easter Sunday — April 17, 2022
Resurrection of the Lord Luke 24:1-12 In her book, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, Toni Morrison ponders how..
Finding hope in hell
Teri McDowell Ott reflects on Shirley C. Guthrie’s quote, “There is no place – not even hell itself – where God is not present and at work with loving justice and just love.”
Creating change: faith-based organizing and the church
A few years ago, an independent, evangelical church slowly began taking over my small Illinois town. Led by a new charismatic male..
5th Sunday of Lent — April 3, 2022
Psalm 126 Lent 5C “Each of us yearns to belong. Within each human body is this deep, raw, aching desire” writes author..
Order of worship — April 3, 2022
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Presbyterians venture beyond church walls to examine White privilege
The White Privilege Conference (WPC) is not a church conference. It does not center on religion, theology, Scripture, or church growth strategy...
Presbyterian College president surprises high school senior with a full-tuition scholarship
Sarah Grace Stanley didn’t know why Matt vandenBerg, president of Presbyterian College (PC) in Clinton, South Carolina, was joining worship at her..
Humility over competency
During my time in college chaplaincy, I served on Monmouth College’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Team. To equip ourselves for our..