Prayers For Living Into God’s World
Previous Post – Doing Justice & Missional Formation After years of doing spiritual & missional formation with college age Christians, one of the trends that stands out is the struggle many have...
View ArticleReflections on my YWAM Family
Previous Post – A Wordle In Progress I generally find that when I blog about Youth With A Mission (YWAM) here, people are less likely to read. I’ve asked a few people about this, with some...
View ArticleUrgent Prayer Needed
Previous Post – Much Ado About Judgment As many of you have already heard from my Facebook or Twitter stream (or perhaps from watching the news), our friend & community member Michelle Funderburg...
View ArticleOur Community Prayer
Previous Post – Our First Family Photo I wrote the following prayer for Little Flowers Community after our shared exploration of the Sermon on the Mount (which in turn led to my upcoming book, The...
View ArticleThe Four-Fold Pattern of Franciscan Prayer
Previous Post – Some Weekend Reading In many ways, St. Clare of Assisi was a partner with St. Francis in the formation of Franciscan spirituality. One of the key ways of doing this was articulating...
View ArticleThe Disciples Prayer
Previous Post – What St. Francis Wasn’t “You will notice that I have referred to it as “the Disciple’s Prayer” instead of the more commonly known Lord’s Prayer. I am under no illusion that I am going...
View ArticleLaudes Creaturarum – St. Francis
Previous Post – Site Seeing: Some Links I Like Most high, all powerful, all good Lord! All praise is yours, all glory, all honor, and all blessing. To you, alone, Most High, do they belong. No mortal...
View ArticleA Prayer to Abolish the Death Penalty
Previous Post – Site Seeing – March 17th God of Compassion, You let your rain fall on the just and the unjust. Expand and deepen our hearts so that we may love as You love even those among us who have...
View ArticleA Prayer Of Lament For The Dead
Previous Post – The Man Caught In Colonialism Eternal, compassionate God, our hearts are heavy with grief as we struggle with the death of one we love. We need your help. Surround us with the warmth...
View ArticleReturn To Our Senses
Previous Post – The Offensive Justice of Jesus It has been my great pleasure, over the last few years, to grow in friendship Tom and Christine Sine of the Mustard Seed Associates. I have ever been...
View ArticlePray In This Way
This prayer is an interpretation of The Lord’s Prayer which I wrote alongside Little Flowers Community during our study of the Sermon on the Mount. The prayer was published in my book “The Cost of...
View ArticlePraying the Sermon on the Mount
This prayer embodies the entire heart of the Sermon on the Mount in a short, concise way. The prayer was published in my book “The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis & Life in the Kingdom”...
View ArticleThe Road Ahead – A Prayer of Thomas Merton
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following...
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