Year: 2025

2025 Trinity Liturgy: Discovering Our Hope

Ken Burton

GATHERING

ENTRANCE

REFLECTION

There is the absolute hopelessness we face that everyone we love will die … even as we trust and know that love will give rise to growth, miracles, and resurrection. Love and goodness and the world’s beauty and humanity are the reasons we have hope. Yet no matter how much we recycle, believe in our Priuses, and abide by our local laws, we see that our beauty is being destroyed, crushed by greed and cruel stupidity. And we also see love and tender hearts carry the day. Fear, against all odds, leads to community, to bravery and right action, to hope

(Reflection: Anne Lamotte, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope, p.…

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A Prayer of Gratitude for Creativity Amidst Oppression

Trish Nemore

Praying for Peace and Justice on June 8, 2025

Gracious Living God, 

Each week we come beseeching you to give us the strength and courage to find what is ours to do to bring justice to and relieve the suffering of so many in our world – immigrants, poor people, people of color, queer people, people in war zones, those living in areas deeply affected by climate change, our non-human fellow creatures.  The list goes on.

Today we offer gratitude.  Gratitude for all those who bring joy and creativity to us, not separate from the suffering but in the midst of it. …

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Pentecost and the Divine Feminine

Ken Burton

Jacqie Wallen

June 8, 2024

Pentecost

I love Pentecost! Which is why, I assume, Deborah asked me to preach today. The first thing I did after I said “yes” to Deborah was to go to Google and type in “Pentecost.” This is my usual way of starting a project, and especially necessary in this case because I have already preached on Pentecost several times and needed to be sure I had some new ideas.…

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A Prayer for Peace and Justice for All Animals

Trish Nemore

Praying for Peace and Justice on June 1, 2025

Holy One, we are facing hard and frightening times, both as citizens and as a species. We are putting so much energy into trying to follow your guidance, and turn humanity toward a better path. But your creation is bigger than that. We are part of a world that includes millions of other species, and we have obligations of justice, and mercy, toward them as well. Animals need peace and justice too, and their plight at human hands is heartbreaking. They are not ours, to use as we please. Help us find the focus and energy to keep our eyes on the ultimate goal – your peaceable kingdom where the entire planet can live in harmony and health.…

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