A Plain Account

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. 

Fifth Sunday after Easter | Acts 7:55-60 Our texts this week are here  Our prayer this week is from Every Moment Hoy, “A Liturgy for Grieving a Death due to Violence” 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   The Cross & The Lynching Tree, by James Cone.  From the Equal Justice Initiative: the national memorial for peace and justice dedicated to the legacy of enslaved people in the United States.  Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

Fourth Sunday after Easter | Acts 2:42-47  Our texts this week are here  Our prayer this week is from Blessed Be Our Table  by Neil Paynter 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 Barbara Brown Taylor’s sermon from Matthew 14 about Jesus feeding the crowd of 5,000 can be found in her sermon collection The Seeds of Heaven: Sermons on the Gospel of Matthew Eating Together as a Church webinar, sponsored by Nazarenes for Creation Care 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.

Easter 3A | Acts 2 Our texts this week are here  Our prayer this week is from The Lives We Actually Have by Kate Bowler  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.

Our texts this week are here  Our prayer this week is from Circle of Grace by Jan Richardson  Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount   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

 Palm Sunday A | Matthew 21 Our texts this week are here  Our prayer this week: “Jesus Weeps” by Malcolm Guite in the collection Word in the Wilderness … While we lament yet another school shooting in the news cycle this week, we remember that Jesus weeps over all of this too. There have been several commentators that mention a Roman custom of a show of force– that on the other side of the city Pilate would have been parading in on a war horse accompanied by a squadron or two of Roman soldiers. (see Borg & Crossan, The Last Week, pages 1-30) We mentioned @BlackLiturgies and This Here Flesh, by Cole Arthur Riley Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount   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.

SHOW NOTES: Lent 5A | Psalm 130  Our texts this week are here  Our prayer this week: For When You Need a Little Hope, The Lives We Actually Have by Jessica Richie and Kate Bowler  We talked about Homeboy Industries and the work of Fr. Gregory Boyle. Megan mentioned his book The Whole Language, and both Megan & Alicia recommend Tattoos on the Heart.  Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount   For more about Brueggemann’s categories for Psalms, check out Spirituality of the Psalms.  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.

SHOW NOTES: Lent 4A | Psalm 23  Our texts this week are here Our prayer this week: “A Liturgy for Those Who Are Too Busy” from Liturgies For Hope, by Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore For more about Brueggemann’s categories for Psalms, check out Spirituality of the Psalms. For more about using the psalms in prayer, we suggest Psalms For Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness, by Nan C. Merril   Inciting Joy, by Ross Gay. Alicia cannot recommend this book highly enough! And if you really can’t make time to read it just yet, do yourself a favor and listen to this brief podcast interview (NPR) where he talks about inciting joy while dining with sorrow. Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show. Buying a book from our affiliate shop basically buys the team a cup of coffee-- good for you and for us! https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

In this bonus episode, we invite you to tune in to a conversation about a new book from APA publishing: Trenches and Tables by Michael R. Palmer