Come and See
August 9, 2018
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“After awhile, my imagining of God gave way to envisioning Christ”
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Tag: Prayer
Why pray?
July 18, 2018
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“The trouble with being a god is that you’ve got no one to pray to.” Small Gods, Terry Pratchett Does God need our prayers?
A Personal Prayer
June 23, 2018
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“What we can do is to see where we can make a difference, no matter how small. One grain of sand doesn’t make a beach but get enough grains together and they can put a buffer between the land and the restless sea. Get enough individuals involved and seeming miracles can happen.”
Immersive prayer
June 6, 2018
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Prayer can lead down strange avenues, as light is distorted by water, bending images into curious, half-remembered shapes.
Prayers from the Park Bench
May 29, 2018
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“I think to myself, is this it? Is this prayer?
Can it be this simple? This beautiful? This life-giving?”
A prayer for Memorial Day
May 28, 2018
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A Memorial Day prayer from the Religious Imagineer, Jim Friedrich
The prayer bear
May 16, 2018
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During our irregular education hour at church, we talked about expansive and alternative images for God, in the Bible and in our prayers. It was interesting to stretch our imaginations, and to find out where the stiffness of our necks and our prayer muscles pulled us back.
A Prayer for Paying Attention
April 24, 2018
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“I know you are with me if I just pay attention.”
No more empty prayers for refugees
April 17, 2018
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Forty people showed up, and formed the kernel of a community group that eventually sponsored a Syrian refugee family for settlement in Connecticut.
Roots of Faith
December 15, 2017
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It is an easy thing look back at moments in history and say ‘I would never have done that.’ I would never have: owned people as slaves, driven indigenous people from their land, paid unfair wages, watched as neighbors were loaded in to trains to death camps, bought land and possessions dirt cheap from people forced to sell because the government decided they were the enemy based on fear rather than evidence.
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