Latest from ESAA Prayer for When People TerrorizeFebruary 17, 2020A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer, from which this prayer is taken, is now available electronically.Read more...A Prayer for an End to Mass IncarcerationFebruary 14, 2020 A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer, from which this prayer is taken, is now available electronically!Read more...A Prayer for DarknessFebruary 12, 2020 A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer, from which this prayer is taken, is now available electronically! Read more...A Prayer Against Environmental RecklessnessFebruary 10, 2020 A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer, from which this prayer is taken, is now available electronically!Read more...A Prayer for Mental Health and Emotional WellnessFebruary 7, 2020 A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer, from which this prayer is taken, is now available electronically!Read more...Be HumanFebruary 5, 2020By Micky ScottBey Jones For all my activist, organizer, social justice warrior, touched-by-the-pain-in-the-world type Beloveds out there: The air feels heavy today. So many agonizing headlines and painful hashtags it's hard at times not to just scroll and spiral. You will be tempted to just put your head down and…...Read more...Ron Sider: A Prayer Instead of PoliticsFebruary 3, 2020By Ron Sider I often fail to come even close to the submission and faithfulness prayed for here, but these words represent my desire. I hope you can make these words your sincere longing as well. Father, in the morning of this new day, I joyfully and gratefully submit every…...Read more...Love and Addiction: A Review of Katherine James's "A Prayer for Orion"January 29, 2020By Melanie Springer Mock The opening to Katherine James's memoir, A Prayer for Orion, is enough to leave a reader—and in particular, a reader who is also a parent—breathless. One July morning, James finds a text on her teenaged son's phone, suggesting his purchase of heroin is imminent. Confronted, the…...Read more...Living a Theology of Contrast Instead of OppositionJanuary 27, 2020By Bridget Eileen Rivera I've been thinking a lot about "positions" lately and what it even means to hold a position. When people ask about my "position" on "homosexuality," it's rarely in the interest of broadening their own perspective, understanding my own, or (God forbid) adjusting their beliefs. Instead, it's…...Read more...
