Mapping Our Prayers
Here is a great idea I learned from our church’s youth group led by my friend and amazing youth group leader, Anne Clift. To help people connect their prayers...
Read MoreA Prayer for a Town Meeting
In Vermont, we have something called “Town Meeting Day.” What’s that? Well, it the day each year when many towns in our state hold their annual town...
Read MorePrayer for a Legislative Session
In Vermont, our State House of Representatives begins each daily session with an opening devotional of some kind. Often, this devotional is a prayer delivered by a...
Read MorePrayer for a Food Shelf Distribution
The custom in our local food shelf is to begin our monthly distributions with announcements and a prayer led by a representative of one of our supporting churches. Not...
Read MorePrayer for Cub Scout Blue & Gold
Below is a prayer that was delivered at a Cub Scout “Blue & Gold” banquet. It could be easily adapted to a variety of settings and circumstances....
Read MoreWhispered Word
I was on a retreat in July of 2016 in Asheville, NC. One of our retreat leaders was Heidi Miller, a professor of Christian Worship at Perkins School of Theology in...
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