Prayer for an Online Memorial Service
May we know that we are one, that we are held, that love abides.
Circle of Our Love
May we persist in seeking truth, being accountable, stepping up to our duties with courage and asking the right questions.
A Prayer for White People
May we not lose awareness. May we not get distracted. May we not turn away.
In Honor and Praise to Black Rage
Deep in the shadow of night, down near the crossroads and cemetery gates, with bitter liquor and cigar smoke wafting, I greet you. ...
In Honor and Praise to Black Rage
Deep in the shadow of night, down near the crossroads and cemetery gates, with bitter liquor and cigar smoke wafting, I greet you. ...
Pastoral Prayer of Longing
Our hearts are overflowing with lamentation and longing.
A Prayer for These Times
Let me see that the non-doing is as much a part of life as the doing.
Prayer for a Time in Need of Empathy
God, teach us to consider also how others experience the world. To understand how my reality and their reality are different and yet they share qualities of the same core desire. ...
All Is Not Well
All is not well, and we hurt in part because we cannot make things better for ourselves, for those we love, or for the world.
It Is in Questioning That We Find Answers
O Divine Mother, Grant that I may not so much seek to control as to co-create; to be understood, as to understand myself; to be admired, as to be seen.
Prayer for the Living
And when I move into that final mystery, may those to whom I am connected comfort one another. May they each find a way to embody whatever they have learned from me.
Prayer for Weary Times
Holy One, our hearts are weary; are tired; and are breaking. Our hearts are stretching as they are pulled and pushed, bruised and battered by all the suffering and brokenness and pain. ...
Invocation to the Spirit of Life (An Alternative Lord's Prayer)
Remind us to be gentle; may we love mercy and kindness, recalling the times when we've fallen short ourselves.
As Fires Loom
Our hearts with every person who has lost a home or a place of work or a special piece of wilderness, Our minds with the unfolding effects of climate change and the path ahead of us.
Making Room for All That Is
You who have seen the rising and setting of suns, of seasons, of civilizations, remind us of all that we have learned from the history of the world and from our own histories.
Prayer of Turning at the New Year
Spirit of Life, Source of Love, you who know our struggles and failures as well as we know them ourselves, be with us as we enter into this time of reflection. Give us the courage to travel through a moral inventory of our lives, to notice the places where we have missed opportunities to live our...
Ours Are the Hands That Must Do Your Work
We are the ones who must comfort the sick and lift up the poor. We are the ones who must challenge traditions to bring about justice. Strengthen our resolve, we pray, to live out our faith as doers of good works.