Like many pastors, I meet weekly with an ecumenical group of colleagues for lectionary study. This is not the first wonderful group of this kind in my years of ministry; I’ve been fortunate to participate in three of these. This group meets on Tuesday mornings at 8:30, rotating our gatherings between our different church buildings. [...]
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Pastor’s Lectionary Study Group
Posted in Friendship, Lectio Divina, Lectionary, Religion, Religious Community, Urban Church, community, tagged Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Compton Heights Christian Church, Religion on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Autism and Church
Posted in Autism, Church Accessibility, Compton Heights Christian Church (DOC), Lectionary, Religious Community, community on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night three other members of the congregation and I attended a workshop on Autism. It was done by the Judevine Center on Autism and was a wonderfully helpful evening. With two children in our congregation with Autism Spectrum Disorder, we are coming to realize the very special needs of children with autism and their [...]
Preaching from the Cloud
Posted in Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Cloud of Witnesses, Compton Heights Christian Church (DOC), Lectionary, Medieval Women Mystics, Open and Affirming Congregation, Religious Community, Sacred Spaces, Spiritual, Thomas Troeger, Urban Church, Worship, community, progressive church on July 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve recently picked up again Thomas Troeger’s book Preaching While the Church is Under Reconstruction (Abingdon, 1999). Indeed, we are always ‘under reconstruction’ but it seems that in these days we are called to examine ourselves anew. In recent years the pull toward ’seeker’ and ‘contemporary’ worship has often included a rejection of [...]
Healing Prayers
Posted in Divine Hours, Iona, Lectionary, Prayer, Sacred Spaces, Spiritual, St. Louis City, progressive church on June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As the clock moves past midnight and on to Tuesday morning, I am preparing for my lectionary study group, knowing that tomorrow’s time will be a bit different. A colleague and friend was in a bicycle accident this last Thursday and has a broken collarbone and ribs. He has asked me for prayer [...]
