Representatives of seven congregations from around the United States will join in the “Congregations Project” of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Their names and projects have been announced.
Archive for category Social Justice
Easter Vision
Apr 24
Many Christian institutions are facing decline in their attendance, giving, missionaries and students. Amidst the decay, what would it mean to have an Easter vision for a Christian institution? What is required to carve away the decay and find redemption?
Jesus on trial
Apr 22
During Lent, the Church of the Holy Comforter used Virginia law to retry the sentencing phase of the blasphemy case against Jesus of Nazareth. Church members and guests played the role of the jury.
Generosity of Spirit
Apr 20
There are ways, when we design or re-design our liturgical spaces, in which buildings set aside for Christian worship might be made more hospitable to all seekers after God, particularly to those of other Abrahamic faiths… This is a corrective of vital importance in this age when extremism threatens to engulf all three Abrahamic religions, and when mutual suspicion and arrogant dismissal is so often the order of the day.
GIA Publications is offering, for free during the remainder of the month of March, the use of Lori True’s arrangement of “May the Peace of Christ Be with You / Ki Ri Su To No.”
“For eyes to see that you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth, and linked our lives one to another: that we may never forget our common life depends on each other’s toil and that we will always work for the common good, Arise, O Christ, and help us.”
As the nuclear catastrophe in Japan unfolds, on top of the twin catastrophes of last week’s earthquake and tsunami, we re-discover that we do not really know how to pray.
A Litany, for Japan
Mar 14
that all the lives that have been lost may find their eternal rest in You…
that those grieving the loss of loved ones, especially their children, and the loss of entire families and communities, may find glimpses of hope and life…
Liturgy and immigration
“The joy and hope, the grief and anguish of the men of our time, especially of those who are poor or afflicted in any way, are the joy and the hope, the grief and anguish of the followers of Christ as well.”