Category: Modern Worship
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What can Jack Kerouac teach us about writing liturgy? Reflections on creative sovereignty, Western haiku, poetry, and the craft of new liturgy.
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An Easter Call to Worship Litany centered on Christ’s death and resurrection, freedom from violence, and resistance to the idolatry of force. This could be responsively as below or in full unison. Easter Call to Worship Litany We come to share a story: God gave Godselfand God was killedby people in God’s nameand systems claiminggodlike…
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Philippians 2 contains what is very likely one of the oldest extant fragments Christian liturgy. Tradition claims that the Apostles’ Creed goes back to the apostles themselves. That’s debatable. But the 2nd chapter of Philippians undoubtedly dates to the apostolic age for obvious reasons (no serious scholar disputes that the apostle Paul wrote the book…
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Written for use in a World Communion Sunday liturgy, but appropriate for any gathering. Prayer of Thanksgiving for Communion All: Almighty God, Father, Son and Spirit; Parent, Friend, and Guide: you created all people in your image. We thank you for the manifest expressions of our humanity, and we pray that each of us, all…