God is not bound by our past. Karen Rohrer invites us to look beyond fear, embrace the unknown, and trust in God's promise of renewal.
This prayer by Katy Shevel is for anyone feeling the weight of nostalgia, the ache of loss, or the hope of new beginnings.
Daniel Health offers a prayer examining sunlight and son-light for December 21, the shortest day of the year.
Shea Watts offers a prayer to use at the Thanksgiving table.
Gratitude is the season's theme, but what if we are not feeling it? Elizabeth Doolin offers a prayer for when thanksgiving is hard to come by.
Join us in prayer for peace, dignity, kindness, and justice on election.
Blessed are you, who pick up the pieces: who gather sticks and saw down limbs, who drag away the broken branches and rake up what you can amid chaos ... — Eliza Smith DeBevoise
Utilizing breads from around the world, this liturgy by Heather Prince Doss invites congregations into an embodied appreciation for diversity and unity.
Confronted with school shootings and stale prayers, new mother Meagan Kelly pleads: Fix it, God.
A prayer after a school shooting in Winder, Georgia, by W. Mark Koenig.
Erin Weber-Johnson and Mieke Vandersall offer a prayer: there is enough.
Elizabeth H. Doolin pens a call-and-response prayer for children, caregivers, teachers and all those who living through back-to-school days.
Sonya Massey was a 36-year-old woman from Illinois who was fatally shot by police when she called them for help. Teri McDowell Ott offers a prayer in response to this tragedy.
A prayer for peace, a prayer for perspective by Erin Weber-Johnson and Mieke Vandersall.
We shall not look away. We shall not ignore the atrocities. We pray for the killing to stop. We pray for peace. — Teri McDowell Ott
Early on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, a container ship crashed into a 1.5 mile bridge in Baltimore, Maryland. Several vehicles fell into the waters below.
"How can we celebrate Christmas when there is no Christmas in Bethlehem?" writes Bruce Reyes-Chow.
This year, rocks have witnessed war, gun violence, oppression, and global warming. They cry out, "How long, Oh God?" Let's join them, writes Jesy Littlejohn.
Come, Lord Jesus — in the retelling of the familiar story, in the souls that gather to listen, writes Andrew Taylor-Troutman.
Come alive, O Christ in every broken place so that love fills every gap, writes Jeremy Wilhelmi.
Christian Iosso writes: "Blessed are those who have no 'home for the holidays,' without jobs or funds to buy gifts, who have outlived their friends..."
Daniel Heath pens a prayer honoring Indigenous peoples, the land, and the unifying aspects of Thanksgiving.
Daniel Heath offers a prayer for veterans, especially those residing and working at a Veterans Administration Hospital.
Andrew Taylor-Troutman offers a worship resource for Remembrance Sunday.
Lord, hear our prayers.
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