As part of working on creative projects for Advent at my church I made my first serious attempt at writing a liturgical prayer. I borrowed and paraphrased from several sources and verses but a good chunk of this is my own work too. I’m sure there will be more changes before we use it in [...]
About a year ago my church went caroling for Christmas and I wrote about our little rag tag group and why I thought even our small showing was still important. Last night we went caroling again with far better turn out–in fact we had about 25 people go. I wanted to repost what I wrote [...]
I just picked up the book Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals and have been flipping through it. The following is from the March 24th evening prayer, but I don’t think Oscar Romero will mind us sharing his words in December… “It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. [...]
“The Gospel is everything. The Gospel is not enough.” After our art and coffee discussion this morning this idea kept running through my head. It seems to me there is this paradox when talking about art and theology. We want to make art that is evangelical without being “Christian”. We want to make art that [...]
