Posted on Thu 01 May 2025 in Worship
I offered this closing prayer at today's May Day rally in Concord, based on the Lord's prayer. See coverage of the event on InDepthNH.
Good and gracious God,
deliver us from the evil
of rejecting the divine image in which we are created
of rejecting that dignity, value and infinite …
Posted on Fri 25 April 2025 in Worship
On Palm Sunday, we sang a hymn new to our parish. This is "By Gracious Powers" and it is a musical arrangement of a poem by Dietrich Bonhoffer. He wrote this poem in a Nazi prison cell where his resistance cost him his life 80 years ago on April 9 …
Posted on Sat 16 May 2020 in Worship
Today protestors will gather at the NH State House for a Christian service and demand to return to large, in-person worship gatherings in their churches. Churches that closed too slowly or opened too quickly soon showed new COVID cases.
If your worship service is harming people, then God does not …
Posted on Thu 09 April 2020 in Worship
Picture: Communion service with New England United Methodist Conference, Garden of Gethsemane, February 2020
"Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint" (Isaiah 40:31).
As many …
Posted on Fri 03 April 2020 in Worship
