A Table Grace for Thanksgiving
This table grace has been my companion for a few years now. If it is helpful for you, I welcome you to use it - just the first stanza, or several. The leader can say the first three lines, and everyone can join on the fourth line, We give thanks with all our heart.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
For this breath, for this heartbeat
For this meal with these companions
For the web of life of which we’re part
We give thanks with all our heart.
For sun and rain, for soil and season,
For ocean, mountain, forest, meadow,
For the web of life of which we’re part
We give thanks with all our heart.
For all to whom this food connects us
From field and farm to store and table
For the web of life of which we’re part
We give thanks with all our heart.
For bread and wine upon this table
For this deep mystical communion
For the web of life of which we’re part
We give thanks with all our heart.
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Do I Stay Christian? Four Stages Charts
Folks who listen to Do I Stay Christian as an audiobook have been asking for the 4 stages charts in the Include and Transcend chapter. Click here to view them.
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A retired pastor on Do I Stay Christian?
A retired pastor writes:
I know there is no way you can read all the emails and communications you receive, much less respond to them. I just wanted to take a moment and thank you from the bottom of my heart for your latest book, which I just finished - Do I Stay Christian? I am a retired Mainline Protestant pastor, having served actively for 35 years and now filling in at various congregations from time to time. I have known for some time that the "old way" of being Christian is simply not working. I so love and respect young people who just cannot "do church" any more and you really helped me understand them even better! I only wish I could have done more in my active ministry to help others "see." But thanks be to God there are modern prophets like yourself (and I mean that sincerely), who are helping us to "see." You are a needed and important voice for all of us who want to be more fully human in following and embodying Jesus in hopes of reflecting this way to the world!
The grace and peace of our Lord be with you, and thanks again for your kindness, your grace, and great wisdom!
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Thanks for these kind and encouraging words! For folks who would like to read the new book, here's a link: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250853035/doistaychristian
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Do I Stay Christian? Resources for you and your small group …
Do I Stay Christian? is available now.
If you're interested in seeing the four stages chart from the book, you'll find it here:
Do I Stay Christian? Four Stages Charts
You may be interested in this excerpt from the book in the Daily Meditation from the Center for Action and Contemplation, of which I am honored to be a part: https://email.cac.org/t/ViewEmail/d/9F5DC36ACF0260072540EF23F30FEDED/7F2E00B06C3B153A14399806BE9B4083
You'll also find a three-part video guide to the book and an invitation to be part of a four-week online class and community HERE:
https://homebrewedchristianity.lpages.co/doistaychristian/
This online course and community are a partnership with the amazing Tripp Fuller of Homebrewed Christianity ... one of the really significant theological resources on the interwebs today.
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Attention Podcasters – Would you like to talk about Do I Stay Christian?
A friend and colleague just finished reading the manuscript of Do I Stay Christian? He said he couldn't stop reading and called it my "piece de resistance." If you'd like to invite me to talk about the book on your podcast, you can contact John Karle at this email address: john.karle@stmartins.com. John can schedule our conversation and mail you an advanced reader copy. He'll also invite you to participate in a fun zoom gathering with all the podcasters who invite me to join them. That gathering will be on the release date, May 24.
We'll be scheduling podcast interviews April 10-12 and 17 - 19, and May 10-12 and 17-19.
If you'd like to preorder the book, you'll find links here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250262806/doistaychristian
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