We pray for strength and courage, for wisdom to seek Your ways.
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Author: Jill Crainshaw
Jill Crainshaw is the Blackburn Professor of Worship and Liturgical Theology at Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, N.C. She loves to write and is the author of several books, including a collection of poetry. Her most recent publication is When I in Awesome Wonder: Liturgy Distilled from Everyday Life (Liturgical Press, 2018). Jill's personal blog can be found on her website, jillcrainshaw.com.
Advent Porch Light Liturgy
During Advent, perhaps we can turn on a porch light and welcome someone home.
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Be Ye Kind to One Another
I pray that Christian worship practices cultivate kindness—birth it in its most radical and world-changing forms in the marrow of our bones.
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The Writing Work of the People
Words are powerful. How we use words in worship matters.
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Shoe Polish, Gospel Gratitude and the First Day of School
Christians can impact what happens in schools is by embodying one of the Gospel’s most powerful gifts: gratitude.
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Teaching Memories
The point of embodied remembering is not so much to sharpen our recollection of historical detail as it is to connect us to others who have dug in this dirt, walked on this earth, and danced in this place before.
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risus paschalis: when dust laughs
Risus paschalis means “the Easter laugh.” The pastor of the United Church of Christ congregation I attended some years ago had a practice of telling
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Savoring Gethsemane Places
Gethsemane midwifes agony. Gethsemane also midwifes the balm of Gilead.
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In Our Hands, Beneath Our Feet: Reflections for Lent 4
As we journey through Lenten disciplines and practices, we are invited again and again to attend to and celebrate the sacramentality of everyday life, the matter beneath our feet and in our hands that matters.
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