Footwashing

The Maundy Thursday service with communion and footwashing is one of my favorite worship experiences of the liturgical year. As parishioners walk down the aisle to the front of the church with all sorts and conditions of bare feet, it feels like a time of shared...

Embarrassing

Yesterday on Palm Sunday, members of our congregation marched the few blocks from downtown to the nave of the church. As we processed up the street, we sang a call-and-response song with our minister as the cantor. “Hosanna, Hosanna. Hosanna, Hosanna. Blessed is...

Holy Week Calendar and Meditation

Whether you have had successful weeks of Lenten discipline or you botched it early on, here’s an idea for a way to make the daily pilgrimage through Holy Week. Download the template below, spend some time with the Holy Week story, and meditate on a word a day....

Lenten Calendar–Surrender

I have enjoyed taking pictures for my “Awe a Day” calendar this Lent. It has made me attentive to objects and views I might have missed in ordinary time. But after a few days I knew I needed some words. Maybe even one word. So the word for this Lent has...

St. Patrick’s Day–2015

St. Patrick’s Day celebrates 5th-century Patrick who escaped from slavery in Ireland to his homeland of Wales. He returned to Ireland to share the Gospel as an ordained bishop of the Church. After his death he became the patron saint of Ireland. One of my favorite...