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God’s command to love your neighbor extends to our neighbors in Creation, including the land, waters, trees, animals, and human kin.

When A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa was published in 1989 it was groundbreaking in Anglicanism. It eschewed male pronouns for God. But the most recent publication with the same title is replete with well over 50 male pronouns for God added into the text.

Rev. Janel Kolar shares the importance of not just displaying, but actively incorporating and memorizing the Ten Commandment.

Compassionate God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we desire or deserve; pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those things for which our prayer dares not ask; through Jesus Christ who is alive with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

The parable of the workers in the vineyard holds a mirror up to the harsh realities of exploitative economic and agricultural systems.

Faithful God, source of all good, graft in our hearts the love of your name, and bind us more closely to you so that you nourish the goodness you sow in us and, by your watchful care, you tend and guard the good you have nourished; through Jesus Christ who is alive with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

I have only recently discovered the Lectionary Story Bible by Ralph Milton (illustrated by Margaret Kyle). Based on the Revised Common Lectionary, every Sunday usually has a reworking of a couple of the readings and presented for a child.

God invites us to participate in gleaning divine abundance from the Earth so that all are nutritiously fed with equity and joyous fellowship.

I ultimately found a place serving in a moderate/progressive Baptist church, and I have been overwhelmed by the sense of home I have experienced there.

God invites us into a divine cycle of reciprocity so that Creation, communities, and the church can flourish.