ESA's Blog: Love Justice, Do Mercy
How Can We Achieve Peace?
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity...
Church on the Margins With My LGBTQ+ Friends
By Katie Hays For almost two decades I served small, traditional congregations where heteronormativity was the unspoken rule. In those churches we were attentive to our ethic of hospitality: How can we be more...
A Prayer for When People Terrorize
A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer, from which this prayer is taken, is now available electronically.
A Prayer for an End to Mass Incarceration
A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer, from which this prayer is taken, is now available electronically!
A Prayer for Darkness
A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer, from which this prayer is taken, is now available electronically!
A Prayer Against Environmental Recklessness
A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer, from which this prayer is taken, is now available electronically!
A Prayer for Mental Health and Emotional Wellness
A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer, from which this prayer is taken, is now available electronically!
Be Human
By 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...
Ron Sider: A Prayer Instead of Politics
By 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...
Love and Addiction: A Review of Katherine James's "A Prayer for Orion"
By 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...
