The St. Francis Prayer

For my recent move to an apartment, I decided to have a small corner chair reupholstered. I was immediately charmed, when the young man giving the estimate asked, with a slight Turkish accent, “What do we name dis tiny tink?”
My church’s Friday evening Taize service consists mostly of tiny tinks–simple melodies with brief [...]

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“Praying” a Hymn

If I were to take a survey, I suspect many of you would admit that hymn singing is one of your favorite aspects of a worship service. There’s something wonderful about singing a hymn we’re familiar with and letting our imperfect voices soar toward heaven. Individually we may not sound great, but together we make [...]

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Keeping a Prayer Journal

Do you keep a prayer or faith journal? I can see many of you putting this down right now. “Don’t have time.” “Hate to write.” “Not creative.” “Can’t bare to mess up a journal with my atrocious handwriting.” “Tried once; couldn’t do it every day.” “Don’t see the point.”
Well, you don’t have [...]

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