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Ground of all being,Mother of life, Father of the universe,Your name is sacred, beyond speaking.May we know your presence,may your longings be our longings in heart and in action.May there be food for the human family todayand for the whole earth community.Forgive us the falseness of what we have doneas we forgive those who are untrue to us.Do not forsake us in our time of conflictbut lead us

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The Madonna of the Trail, as seen on the front page of the website, stands at Glenn Miller Park in Richmond, Indiana, along the National Road, once a path for pioneers seeking economic and spiritual freedom in the Western United States. For Jubilee Road, the Madonna of the Trail symbolizes all pilgrims in search of justice, and our reliance on the traveling Christ who protects and guides us along

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In 2008, religion scholar Karen Armstrong won a TED Prize for the following wish:I wish that you would help with the creation, launch and propagation of a Charter for Compassion, crafted by a group of leading inspirational thinkers from the three Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and based on the fundamental principles of universal justice and respect. Watch her related TED

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Jubilee Road Liturgy Group is hoping you can join us. If you write prayers, songs, or other materials, consider submitting them for publication by Jubilee Road Liturgy Group.More detailed information will come later, but for now, we are currently looking forwriters and leaders of liturgypreachersmusiciansvisual artistsbloggersworkshop facilitatorsadvisory/visionary groupspace to hold meetings,

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The Prayer of Jesus (Lord's Prayer or Paternoster) has stirred the spirits of Christ's followers ever since he taught it to his first disciples. Jubilee Road deeply appreciates this early liturgical prayer, and provides some links and adaptations for further exploration of the prayer wherein Christ dwells.

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One possible incarnation of the Jubilee Road Liturgy Group is to open a chapel in Richmond, Indiana, where the former route of the Underground Railroad intersects with National Road, built in the nineteenth century for pioneers headed westward, toward the hope of economic and political renewal. The point of intersection of these two pilgrimage routes lies in the heart of downtown Richmond. The

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Our Mother and Father dwelling within and beyond,  blessed is your name.May your presence be known, as your will is done among us,   around us and beyond us.Provide us the bread of full life for this day.Forgive us of our failure to love you,  as we forgive those who fail to love us.Shield us from our own destruction,  and deliver us from all that harms.For your presence is justice, peace and

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I received my Associate membership materials from the Iona Community today--the rule & prayer lectionary, plus the last two copies of Coracle.I also ran across this video of a poem from the community, "Cloth for the Cradle." You can read the poem here.

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Several months ago I watched the film Reign Over Me starring Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle, and then wrote the following reflection. Sandler plays Charlie Fineman, a man who lost his wife and three young daughters in one of the airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Cheadle plays Alan Johnson, Fineman's old college roommate. Fineman develops post traumatic stress

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I started rereading a text from my first course in Writing as Ministry at Earlham School of Religions entitled Spiritual Quests: The Art & Craft of Religious Writing. It is a collection of speeches delivered at the New York Public Library in 1987 by authors of literary fiction and poetry. It includes authors that I previously knew of, like Allen Ginsberg and Frederick Buechner, and others that I

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In June 2008 I spent 2 weeks at Iona, a few days here in there in Edinburgh, and a couple days on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. The trip was a class for seminary focusing on Celtic practices of Christian worship. I've not really put a lot down on paper (virtual or otherwise) about the experience (I wrote a bunch of poems and prayers, but nothing specifically about what happened, until today

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In preparation for my trip to Iona this past June, I asked a friend who specializes in the study of the Psalms for some chapters that would be good to read during my visit. He responded that Psalms 120-134, the psalms of ascent, written for various religious pilgrimages to Jerusalem, would go well with the Celtic focus on the journey.In further searching for Celtic connections to the book of

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When I was a teenager, I bought a figurine of a traveling Buddha--a portly smiling man with a large bag over his shoulder. I was fascinated by Buddhism at the time and fancied myself a traveler. I walked everywhere in town and drove across the country every summer with my family for nearly twenty years, eventually driving through forty-five states, staying in many for at least several days. I

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