Tag: Benjamin Brody
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This is the Moment
This text started with a beautiful piece of music from Ben Brody. It sounded invitational and uplifting; a great way to welcome people into a community worship experience. You can preview or purchase the piece here. It is also included as a part of my collection Elemental Joy and Ben Brody’s collection, At the Weaving of…
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People of the Earth
This is good place to confess with pride that my Mom is a paleontologist. Her work honors the fascinating diversity and development of life past and present. I have heard her comment more than once that God must have a particular fondness for beetles, given their great abundance! Humanity is a very small fraction of…
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Let There Be Rest
This hymn began as an exploration of the commandment to rest and to ensure rest for the people, animals, and land around us. I was inspired by ongoing conversations about rest as an issue of justice including the work of Tricia Hersey, the “Nap Bishop,” who teaches that rest can be both resistance and reparation.…
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Leaven Us with Holy Yeast
Count me among the many who found refuge in bread making during the first two years of the COVID pandemic. That experience, followed by a focus on yeast, seed, and bread-related scriptures during Lent 2023, led to this text. Thanks to Ben Brody for a wonderful tune! This simple, short song is designed to be…
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Be with Those Who Wander
This text was inspired by a beautiful, searching tune by Ben Brody. It takes the form of an intercessory prayer, raising the needs of many, then offering a reminder of God’s abiding presence and call. You can preview or purchase the piece here. It is also a part of my collection Elemental Joy. Here is…
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Jesus, Faithful Ancient Tree
A few years ago I preached an Easter sermon on fungus: the amazing underground networks that connect trees so that a whole forest can operate as one organism. The hub of that forest organism is sometimes called a mother tree, an elder that shares memory and resources with others. Research on this phenomenon has been…
Hannah C Brown 