
Prayers from the Park Bench
“I think to myself, is this it? Is this prayer?
Can it be this simple? This beautiful? This life-giving?”

“I think to myself, is this it? Is this prayer?
Can it be this simple? This beautiful? This life-giving?”

A Memorial Day prayer from the Religious Imagineer, Jim Friedrich

“Jesus prays not that the Father take us from the world before our time, but acknowledges that we don’t completely fit in the world once we have known him, and have touched Love and Immortality.”

In this opinion piece, Jim Friedrich reflects on the Reclaiming Jesus vigil and march and the cost of the prophetic stance

A poem from southern poet Debbie Harris, inspired by psalm 24

“The doctrine of The Trinity arose out of a need to say what was true and what was not true about Jesus, who he was, what kind of being he was.”

What might the church of the future look like? I have an idea. It has to do with bread and alfalfa, clay and earth. People and food and music and a park.

God’s not looking for superheroes; just people like us

Luci and Jordan reach the book of the prophet Malachi – and the end of the Hebrew scriptures

In this second part of our series The Evangelical Shift, we look at liturgy; how it attracts and how it can be stumbling block for those coming from non-liturgical, evangelical backgrounds.