Like funerals and memorial services, liturgies at the graveside, vault, or columbarium are opportunities for the living to remember and mourn the person who has died.
On the Arts: An Inclusive Burial Liturgy
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On Preaching: Proclaiming Death Unfinished
These days most places seem to have hospital waiting room vibes. The usual noise of ordinary places—grocery store lines, school parking lots, traffic jams, sidewalks and lobbies, pews before worship—even places that celebrated the last election, sounds different.
On Music: We Belong to God
In the mid-to-late 90s, I had only been in Delaware a few years in my first academic music job and was also serving a downtown, scrappy PC(USA) congregation that had made a clear choice to open its doors wide and not be a fortress against its changing neighborhood, but a place of true welcome and support.
On Liturgy: One Conviction to Summon
In life and in death we belong to God”—to be perfectly frank, it’s the only thing I’m sure I believe all the time.
On the Arts: Photography in Worship
Photography literally means “writing with light.” Photographers see; we see what others do not see, capture it in our viewfinder, and make a picture. The picture freezes time, magically preserves the moment, and though a still life, is yet alive.
On Preaching: Known, Called, and Empowered by God
One of my favorite parts of preaching, particularly as a preacher who regularly uses the Revised Common Lectionary, is that I get to return to passages over and over and discover anew their blessings and revelations, holy reminders of how God has been, is, and will be present with creation in the most intimate and enduring ways.
On Music: Creating Sacred Spaces
On a warm summer night, God intervened in a way that was beyond comprehension. During a time of worship, I felt God’s presence, and the fullness of God’s love became indescribable. It was not just in the words of the hymns or the warmth of the prayers but in the overwhelming sense of belonging in a space where love for God and for one another was palpable.
On Liturgy: Shared Space
Accessibility and sustainability are words that bring to mind all kinds of images. From a liturgical perspective, accessibility can be linked to the ways that people feel welcomed to the table. Accessibility connects to the practical side of life as well, such as the ways people are able to enter your building, and beyond that be able to functionally use the building space.
On the Arts: Worship at the Margins: Revival and Freedom
Real Inspiration Ministries (RIM) is a fifteen-year-old church that began as a worshiping community started by Bishop Sonya Williams. Bishop Williams and her wife, First Lady Regina Williams, birthed this worshiping community because there was no place in traditional African American churches for our LGBTQ+ siblings.
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