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  • Justice Prayers - February 20

    We bring our prayers to Creator God, who both "takes up our pain and bears our suffering" and will "let justice roll down like a river." If you haven't followed OSJ Prayers in the past, welcome...
    February 20, 2019
  • Justice Prayers - February 13

    We bring our prayers to Creator God, who both "takes up our pain and bears our suffering" and will "let justice roll down like a river." If you haven't followed OSJ Prayers in the past, welcome...
    February 13, 2019
  • Justice Prayers - February 6

    We bring our prayers to Creator God, who both "takes up our pain and bears our suffering" and will "let justice roll down like a river." If you haven't followed OSJ Prayers in the past, welcome...
    February 6, 2019
  • Justice Prayers - January 30

    We bring our prayers to Creator God, who both "takes up our pain and bears our suffering" and will "let justice roll down like a river." Utility Company Filing for Bankruptcy Due to Climate Change...
    February 1, 2019
  • Dear Church, Refuse to be in Denial

    Dear Church, I write to you to admit that I am a recovering racist, working to overcome the lies ingrained in me by white supremacy and a racialized society. I share this to be transparent with you...
    January 25, 2019
  • MLK: A Christmas Sermon on Peace and Non-violence

    “This Christmas season finds us a rather bewildered human race. We have neither peace within nor peace without. Everywhere paralyzing fears harrow people by day and haunt them by night. Our world is...
    December 24, 2018
  • A Prayer for the Arrival(s)

    Advent: Middle English, borrowed from Medieval Latin adventus, going back to Latin, "arrival, appearance" Refugee claimants (people who have fled their countries of origin to make a refugee claim, and...
    December 3, 2018
  • To the Woman I Saw Walking to the Highway

    A reflection for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls: I saw you first walking out of the hotel parking lot to the highway You had your purse with you and a commitment to go as you zippered...
    November 13, 2018
  • Recovering a Theology of Place

    We so rarely know where we really are. We drive around in cars, spend our days under fluorescent lights in artificially re-circulated air, staring at screens and moving so quickly from task to task...
    October 19, 2018
  • Confronting My Silence

    I wish I had taken a vow of silence. But I haven’t. Far from any overtly noble rationale, I simply went quiet. For the past 11 months, I’ve hardly done any writing, I’ve only read two books, and I’ve...
    July 16, 2018