Meeting Jesus on the Road: A Lenten Study
With weekly walking prompts, reflection questions and a pastoral tone, "Meeting Jesus on the Road" encourages us to meet Jesus in our neighborhoods, writes Amy Pagliarella.
Cross
A poem from the acclaimed poet Marjorie Maddox.
Called to wash feet: A Maundy Thursday prayer for humility
Savannah Demuynck offers a prayer reflecting on Christ’s call to humility and service.
Lenten prayers and practices during a displacement crisis
Historian Nathan Jérémie-Brink processes our modern displacement crises with the help of Ephrem the Syrian, a fourth-century refugee and theologian.
Devotional recommendations for Lent 2024
Amy Pagliarella has devotional recommendations for individuals, small groups and Jane Austen fans.
Holy Saturday prayer
"Help me stay with the transformative tomb./ Help me trust it’s not over," writes Arianne Braithwaite Lehn.
Visio divina for Holy Week
We invite you to prayerfully reflect on the incarnation with a piece of original artwork by Sarah Scoggin.
Meeting Jesus at the Table: A Lenten Study
Amy Pagliarella reviews Cynthia M. Campbell and Christine Coy Fohr's latest book.
Resources for Lent 2023
Outlook Book Review editor Amy Pagliarella suggests four resources for Lent 2023.
Faithful Families for Lent, Easter, and Resurrection: Simple Ways to Create Meaning for the Season
"I see this book appealing to a wide range of church-going families seeking easy and gentle practices around the season of Lent and Easter," writes Irene Pak Lee.
40 community organizing actions you can practice during Lent
Pray for the community each day. Identify community leaders with power and influence. Have a relational meeting with at least three..
Ash Wednesday: A poem
God knows I don’t need to be reminded I’m nothing, but it is nice to know someone once promised— at the beginning..
Centering Latina voices, theology and language for Lent
(PNS) — For Lent 2022, Unbound — An Interactive Journal on Christian Social Justice is offering a devotional series focused on the Latina..
A Holy Saturday psalm
"Today I am dead./ With Christ in the tomb where hopes lay fallow./ What bright phoenix will yet rise from these ashes?" — Joshua Gritter
Good Friday prayer
“Why is this Friday good?”
A prayer for Holy Week
A prayer that moves from Eden to Calvary to Gethsemane to Pentecost. — Jay Blossom
Where the Eye Alights: Phrases for the Forty Days of Lent
Marilyn McEntyre Eerdmans, 128 pages This is a beautiful book that might have been a disaster were it not written by Marilyn..
Good Friday litany of penitence based on the Seven Last Words of Christ
This litany by Jill Duffield can be used for personal prayer or public worship.
Video: Prayers of the people for Palm Sunday
Jill Duffield reads the prayers of the people she crafted for Palm Sunday. You are welcome to share this with your congregation..
Lent in Plain Sight: A Devotion Through Ten Objects
Jill J. Duffield Westminster John Knox Press, 169 pages Reviewed by Gary W. Charles Feel free to read the entire review, but..
Prayer for Holy Saturday
Jesus, the light that no darkness can overcome, even as the sun rises, the night refuses to relent. We huddle together, afraid,..
Prayer for Good Friday
My God, my God, why have you forsaken your Son? How can you tolerate the suffering of the One who came to..
Prayer for Maundy Thursday
Lord, you are our Master, our Teacher, our Friend. The thought of your suffering pains us. We desperately want a different outcome,..
Holy Week: The holy in the mundane
"This week, so extraordinary, makes every other week in its wake holy and our every act now an offering of thanks to the One whose sacrifice saved the world, whether they know it or not."
Prayer for Wednesday of Holy Week
The days are surely coming, Lord, when you will no longer walk the earth. The atmosphere feels sinister as we prepare..
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