A Plain Account

SHOW NOTES  Our texts this week are here  Our prayer this week: “For the Interim TIme” - To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’Donohue …. “For Those Who Bear Witness” - The Lives We Actually Have by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie  “Jesus is what God has to say” - Brian Zahnd, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount   Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. Alicia’s advent playlist and Matt’s EP 

SHOW NOTES  Our texts this week are here  Our prayer this week: “Blessing When the World is Ending,” Jan Richardson from Circle of Grace Alicia’s Advent playlist and Matt’s Advent EP  Alicia mentioned Kintsugi pottery. Learn more about the beauty in the art of repair.  Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount   Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. 

SHOW NOTES  Our texts this week are here  Our prayer this week: Feminist Prayers For My Daughter “For a Faith Community”  Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount   Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.  We’ll be back for the first week of Advent– reading through the Psalms! 

SHOW NOTES  Our texts this week are here  Our prayer this week is from The Lives We Actually Have – “Collective Grief” (p 74-75) Alicia mentions Dr. Mekel Harris’s Instagram account. Check out her full website here.   Megan mentions Jan Richardson’s book, The Cure for Sorrow Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount   Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

SHOW NOTES Our texts this week are here  Our prayer this week:  “Liturgy for Wresting with God” from Liturgies for Hope Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount   Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. 

SHOW NOTES  Our texts this week are here (Megan is reading from the Common English Bible) Our prayer this week: “A Liturgy For Those Who Worship The Wrong Thing” from Liturgies for Hope  Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount   Andrew Root, Churches and the Crisis of Decline   Exodus commentaries: OT For Everyone by John Goldingay, NBBC Commentary by H. Junia Pokrifka  Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

As we move from Pentecost to Ordinary time, we celebrate the beauty in the ordinary and take extra time for rest and play. We'll be taking a break from regular podcasting, but will be back in your feeds soon! Meanwhile, there are amazing resources continually available every week on our ⁠website⁠: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. Our quote comes from An Altar in the World, by Barbara Brown Taylor Our prayer this week is "For an Ordinary Day" from The Lives We Actually Have (Bowler & Richie) Browse the rest of our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount   Join us on Patreon! ⁠www.patreon.com/aplainaccount⁠ 

Pentecost A  | Acts 2:1-21   Our texts this week are here  Our prayer this week is Blessing that Undoes Us by Jan Richardson Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount   Some commentaries assisting in Easter season: Jerusha Matsen Neal on workingpreacher.org and Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief Series), Acts by Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Abingdon NT), Acts For Everyone by N. T. Wright Browse the rest of our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount   Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

Ascension of Our Lord | Acts 1:6-14 Our texts this week are here  Our prayer this week is In the Leaving from Circle of Grace Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount   Some commentaries assisting in Easter season: Jerusha Matsen Neal on workingpreacher.org and Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief Series), Acts by Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Abingdon NT), Acts For Everyone by N. T. Wright Browse the rest of our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount   Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. 

Sixth Sunday after Easter | Acts 17:22-31  Our texts this week are here  Our prayer this week is “A Liturgy for those Who Worship the Wrong Thing” (from Liturgies for Hope by Elledge & Moore)  Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount   Some commentaries assisting in Easter season: Jerusha Matsen Neal on workingpreacher.org and Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief Series), Acts by Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Abingdon NT), Acts For Everyone by N. T. Wright Browse the rest of our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount   Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.