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Climate Despair and Liturgical Hopefulness

Liturgical hopefulness does not look for some other world to which we can “fly away” as this one burns

The time is now to situate Christian worship within the much older, more ancient practice of primordial praise.

What is the good toward which we’re oriented?

Can you think of a social issue which hasn’t been trussed into silence by strangles of red and blue?

Paul Westermeyer argues for the value of keeping a church “open for prayer” beyond those times when services are being held.

A promise and a noble commission.

Exclamations of sadness, distress, and horror all carry within them an implicit yearning for a change in circumstance.

We are clearly not experiencing the reality projected by liturgical prayer.

Without a foundation in prayer, direct action may not sustain itself