A Plain Account

Our texts this week are here. Our prayer for this week is here. It is adapted from Justice for Immigrants, “Prayer and Liturgy Suggestions,” originally posted on the Justice for Immigrants website.  Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. Check out the Lenten Devotional, The Way Through, and Alicia’s Spotify playlist

Our texts this week are here  “Food means everything if you don’t have it and nothing if you do.” - Germaine Jenkins (see the whole conversation here) Our prayer for this week is from the book titled Blessed Be Our Table (p 63) Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. Check out the Lenten Devotional "The Way Through"  Alicia’s Lenten playlist on Spotify 

Extra content for you! Enjoy this bonus episode where we talk about the season of Lent. https://onbeing.org/programs/wendell-berry-ellen-davis-the-art-of-being-creatures/ https://www.ted.com/talks/katharine_hayhoe_the_most_important_thing_you_can_do_to_fight_climate_change_talk_about_it?language=en

In this Episode we talk about the Transfiguration of Jesus as recorded in Luke 9:28-36. This seemingly bizarre event defies our understanding (at least as westerners), which might not a bad thing... 

Our texts for this week are here. Our prayer for this week is here.   We recommend this brief article with an overview and further links about trauma-informed preaching.  Consider Romans 12 as a parallel text, especially for talking about forgiveness. Alicia’s discussion of forgiveness is in part influenced by an article by Matt Potts: “Mourning for forgiveness.” Theology 122, no. 3 (May 2019), 180-187. His forthcoming book, Forgiveness: On Accountability and Atonement (from Yale University Press), is *very high* on her to-be-read list. Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

Our texts this week are here. We frequently discuss the practices of reading the Bible from the margins, and a “dislocated exegesis.” For further reading, see Reading the Bible from the Margins by  Miguel A de La Torre, The Word Before the Powers by Charles Campbell, and Preaching as Testimony, by Anna Carter Florence. A companion text from Paul’s epistle: “You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world.” - Ephesians 5:5, NLT Megan quotes Stanley P. Saunders from Preaching the Gospel of Matthew: Proclaiming God’s Presence. You can read more from the Solentiname Island community in Lake Nicaragua in The Gospel in Solentiname by Ernesto Cardenal. Our prayer this week is adapted from the Beatitudes. Read the entire prayer here. Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

Our texts for this week are here Our prayer for this week is a poem from Malcolm Guite: “St Peter”  Here is a version of the children’s song with motions "I Will Make You Fishers of Men"  Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

Our texts for this week are here. Old Testament references include: Elijah & the Widow in 1 Kings 17:1-16 and Elisha & Naaman in 2 Kings 5:1-14 Our prayer for this week from Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community by Padraig O'Tuama Our Greek word study via StepBible.org: ἐκβάλλω (ekballō) 'to expel' (G1544)  Discussion about "powers & principalities" from Charles Campbell, The Word Before the Powers Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

Our texts for this week are here.  Our prayer for this week from Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community by Padraig O Tuama Elijah & the Widow– 1 Kings 17:1-16 Elisha & Naaman– 2 Kings 5:1-14 Word Study via StepBible.org: ἐκβάλλω (ekballō) 'to expel' (G1544)  Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

Our texts for this week are here. A transcript of this episode will be available on our website.  Our prayer for this week is here. “When the water rushed into the emptiness you were surprised that you were surprised, that you could even feel the sudden wellspring when you thought all had been poured out. And then suddenly the sweetness that stuns you that tells you this was not all, this was not the end that this blessing was saving the best for last.” - Jan Richardson Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.