Category: Responsive Readings
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A prayer for World Communion Sunday focused on Christian unity, adapted from Psalm 67, John 17, and Ephesians 2, with an optional transition into Prayers of the People or a familiar prayer or creed.
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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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Growing up in Eastern Pennsylvania and surrounded by a lot of my family’s Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, I nonetheless was only vaguely aware of the Luterhan, Mennonite, and German Reformed tradition of Harvest Home until I joined the United Church of Christ as an adult. Cultures have celebrated harvest liturgically for thousands of years. Pentecost itself…
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This was adapted for a Confirmation service, but is appropriate for any gathering. Responsive Apostles’s Creed Greetings in the name of God our Father, the maker of heaven and earth, and in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is God with us, conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, born miraculously of…