Morning Prayers for Lent: Conspiring in the Streets

Well we have finally said goodbye to the last of our international guests. Mark Pierson left this afternoon for New Zealand. His morning prayers were one of the highlights of the conference for me. Here are the powerpoint slides from Friday with the theme Conspiring in the Streets.

The series of photos for [...]

More Reflections on Lent

Well we are now into the second full week of Lent and if you are anything like me then I suspect that the busyness of life and the tyranny of the urgent that your Lenten practices are slipping into the background. With our conference The New Conspirators, just over a week away and [...]

Ash Wednesday

Well Ash Wednesday is here - a perfect time to consider our mortality and the transience of our time on earth, a good time to reflect on our lives and where we still need to be transformed by God’s work within us.  Here is a prayer from the Episcopal Ash Wednesday Service in the Book [...]

A Liturgy for Lent

LITURGY FOR LENT

Leader: God all loving and all caring,
We come before you with hesitant steps and uncertain motives
All: Our hearts are parched from wandering in a desert of sin
Leader: We want to sweep out the corners where sin has accumulated
And uncover the places where [...]

Is God In Kenya - What Kenyan Women Think

As we approach Lent it is good for us to remember those who are struggling for there very survival at this time.  Security forces have cracked down on violence but the situation is far from resolved.  Here are some very poignant thoughts from Kenyan women on Where is God in Kenya?
Part of the discipline I [...]

Reflections for Lent

Here is a short reflection video that I produced for Lent last year. 

Lent is Coming Fast

Here are some great thoughts by Beth Stedman on Lent
Ash Wednesday is in a week (February 6th) and will mark the beginning of Lent, so I thought I would share with you all some thoughts I’ve had about Lent, some research and things I’ve learned about it and some ideas of ways to engage in [...]

A Resurrection Created Life

Sunday is a day of rest for me - not in the usual way that we in Western society imagine rest - I don’t sleep in or sit around twiddling my thumbs all day because I don’t want to work - I don’t think that is what God’s rest is all about. God’s rest [...]

Were You There?

This Good Friday video was sent to me by our good friend Tom Balke. While in Quito, Ecuador he toured the Capilla del Hombre (Chapel of Man). It is a huge building which houses some of the works of Oswaldo Guayasamin. The original paintings range from 4 ft. x 7 [...]

The joy of blogging

I am not sure how it happened but the video that I uploaded the first week of lent for people to use as a tool for meditation seems to have disappeared. I love computers except when they drive me crazy.
So here so here is the video again. For those that may be looking [...]