parish Archives - Building Faith

“Blessing the Fields”: A Liturgy for Community Farms and Gardens

Our founding team began Plainsong Farm to create a place to cultivate connections between people, places, and God, a place that …

Imagine Jesus delivering the Beatitudes through Twitter: eight blessings given in 140-character tweets instead of in the Sermon on …

This land is your land, but it once was my landBefore we sold you Manhattan IslandYou pushed my nation to the reservationThis land …

"Vary what you post: interesting blog posts about faith and spiritual growth, especially if written by one of our members, items …

"You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are …

"The same older adult group turns in their favorite bible verse or verses. These are compiled onto a bookmark which is …

"Start with the resources that are already on your shelves... If the presenter is engaging, you’ll have them begging for …

"A retreat gives participants a time and space to be fully present, to do work that is hard to accomplish, or to partake in …

"How could I guarantee that each table would have an intergenerational representation? My solution: silk flowers and quart …

If you were to ask me in the middle of April what I would be doing during the summer I would have told you that I was excited to …