The Lord’s Prayer
When I was writing The Secret Message of Jesus and Everything Must Change, I became more and more amazed at the radical message and profoundly formative power of what we commonly call the Lord's Prayer. For me, as for many, the words had become so familiar that I was tempted to go on autopilot whenever I said them.
I tried to render the prayer into fresh language that would convey some of this power and depth, while retaining its primal and understated simplicity. Then I began singing a kind of simple chant of the prayer in my own private devotional life, which I eventually began teaching to others. People frequently ask me to share it with them, so I put together this little video ...
Please forgive the roughness of my voice and my video production skills. (I'm just using isight and imovie on my mac.)
I should add that you can also have someone sing a line of the prayer "solo," and then have the congregation echo it ... this slows people down even more, so that they really savor the words and let the prayer echo in their hearts.
I hope you'll find some value in this version of this amazing prayer - in your personal prayer life, and in your faith community as well.
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Politics in Church? Sojourners Presentation
Here's the powerpoint presentation from my talk at Sojourners' Pentecost event in DC.
Click to download the file.
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Slides/Notes from Brian’s Lectures
A lot of people have been asking for some of my powerpoint presentations. They're now available in PDF format here ...
I hope they'll be useful. Feel free to adapt and use them in ways that would be useful in your context.
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more on batwa
You can learn more about the Batwa land project at Kelley Johnson Nikondeha's blog here ...
And more on life as visitors to Burundi at Ron and Sarah Gonski's blog here ... be sure to check out their description of "hospital prisoners," which is another amazing story.
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Project Batwa
Here's a video (thanks Dave Shook!) that will give you a sense of what a group of friends experienced in Burundi a few weeks ago ...
Here's the poem I wrote about the experience ...
And here's a link to amahoro-africa.org where you can donate and learn more. Stay tuned for a specific request about getting involved ...
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