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A collection of over 35 liturgies, this resource provides fresh language for worship inspired by the RCL scriptures and our Advent theme, Those Who Dream. For each Sunday in Advent through Epiphany, we provide a Call to Worship, Candle Lighting Liturgy, a Prayer of Confession, a Prayer for Illumination, and an Affirmation of Faith.

We hope you will copy/paste or adapt these prayers for your corporate worship (with credit).

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For the Revised Common Lectionary scriptures for Advent–Epiphany (Year B), this guide offers you biblical commentary, theme connections, guiding questions, and links to further reading. This guide features biblical commentary on the weekly gospel scriptures by Dr. Marcia Y. Riggs, J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA.

NOTE: We are intentional about including diverse voices, authors, speakers, and theologians in this guide to offer deeper insight into each scripture. This particular guide features the work and scholarship of: Howard Thurman, Emilie M. Townes, Mihee Kim-Kort, Traci Blackmon, Kelly Brown Douglas, Wilda Gafney, Emily Heath, Ruby Sales, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Fred Craddock, Otis Moss III, John Lewis, Richard Rohr, and more.

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During any lectionary year, the first Sunday after Christmas can create an exhausting week for clergy and church staff. Therefore, this liturgy is designed to offer rest for church leadership so they can be present with their families and loved ones throughout the Christmas season, while also providing meaningful worship for your community.

Centered around the story of Simeon and Anna blessing young Jesus in the temple, this interactive liturgy is designed for either an intimate in-person service, or a worship service via Zoom. We’ve also provided an At-Home Liturgy version of the service that is especially great for young families with children to walk through together, screen-free.

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This Advent, project & trace these designs to create painted or paper lace banners for your sanctuary or sacred space. We hope these designs (and our instructional materials) can simply be a starting point for you to create art and beauty that is uniquely your own. Read this blog post for a number of creative ways to bring these designs to life (that are COVID-safe). The download includes a large, color file for printing the designs as one 6’x8’ vinyl banner (through a company such as Got Print) to install and display the banner art on the exterior of your church building throughout the Advent and Christmas season.

“Mary gazes off beyond the frame, dreaming of the future while simultaneously anchoring herself in this priceless moment. As she holds Jesus, Joseph holds Mary—delighting in the birth of their holy son, imagining the joyful personality that has just changed their lives and the world, forever. Doves dance through the fabric of Mary’s dress, representing the unexpected, exciting, and empowering presence of the Holy Spirit.”
—Hannah Garrity, banner design artist and Founding Creative Partner of SA

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This collection of 10 poetic prayers explores the Those Who Dream weekly sub-themes in light of the RCL (Year B) scriptures for Advent–Epiphany. Honest and intimate, these poems offer meditations that might become prayers of your own.

To carry a dream
Is to plant trees in old age,
To be a part of a church,
That is human and frayed.
To carry a dream is foolish and wild.
It’s the faith of a child,
Wishing on stars.
But to carry a dream is also hopeful and wise
The faith of our elders,
Saying God will provide.
…
May they say
We are foolish and unwise,
And may we continue to dream;
May hope keep us alive.
—Sarah Are, from “To Carry a Dream”

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Released after the initial launch of our Advent bundle, this bonus resource features our theme song, “Those Who Dream,” written and recorded by The Many. The visuals are designed to create a dreamscape of images emerging in and out of view, paralleling the music and lyrics. You are welcome to embed this video in your live-streamed or online worship.

Note: The un-watermarked video is now included with all Those Who Dream bundle purchases. If you previously purchased the bundle, no need to buy the video—navigate to the Patron Access Page to download it.

Dr. Riggs (she/her) has an undergraduate degree in Religion from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University Divinity School and a PhD in religion/ethics from Vanderbilt University. In April of 2006, Dr. Riggs was inaugurated as the first professor to hold the J. Erskine Love Chair in Christian Ethics at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. She teaches in the Master of Divinity, Doctor of Ministry, and the Master of Theology Programs at the seminary. Dr. Riggs was awarded a 2017-2018 Henry Luce III Fellowship from the Henry Luce Foundation and the Association of Theological Schools; her research project was entitled: “Envisioning and Practicing Beloved Community in the 21st Century.” She received the “Distinction in Theological Education” Award from Yale Divinity School in 2012 and the Alumnae Achievement Award from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in 2006. Dr. Riggs has served on the Editorial Boards for the Encyclopedia on Women and Religion in North America, the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, and the Feasting on the Word Lectionary Commentary Series. She has also chaired the Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group and has chaired or served on committees of the American Academy of Religion, the Association of Theological Schools, and The Fund for Theological Education (currently, the Forum for Theological Exploration).

Dr. Riggs is currently writing a book on an ethical theory and practice called religious ethical mediation. Religious ethical mediation (REM) prepares leaders to address religion, conflict, and violence in a transformative manner. She is the founder of an educational non-profit: Still Waters: A Center for Ethical Formation and Practices that offers training in REM. Dr. Riggs is interested in the relationship between social oppression and socio-religious ethical praxis, ethical discourse that bridges the gap between womanist religious scholarship and the Church’s practice of ministry, the moral foundations for public policy, and the Church’s role in social justice ministry.  ctsnet.edu/faculty/riggs-marcia

The Many is an indie, intentionally diverse music collective from Chicago singing music of faith and doubt, hope and lament. The lead singers in The Many—Darren Calhoun, Leslie Michele, and singer/songwriter Hannah Rand—as well as writer Lenora Rand and musician/producer Gary Rand, come together around their shared love of music and commitment to honest expressions of faith, peace-making, economic and racial justice, and LGBTQ+ inclusion. The Many offer songs made for reflection, for protest, for healing, and worship. They are songs made for singing with each other, in churches, in living rooms, in basements, and in bars. . . anywhere and everywhere, in spirit and in truth. With lyrics born from scriptures, from headlines, and from their own experiences, this is not head-in-the-clouds “worship music.” These are not songs about a God who only loves some of us. These are feet-on-the-ground, heart-in-hands, scars-revealed, wild and holy songs of resistance and reconciliation and restoration. This unique group of musicians reminds us over and over again that we aren’t alone, that God so loves every one of us, and we all belong here. themanyarehere.com

The Plural Guild came together to create and curate music, poems, prayer, visual art, liturgy, experiences and community that embrace questions and doubts, as well as faith. To make work that can be used in worship gatherings that’s truly inclusive and helps everyone feel like they belong. That has eyes wide open to the pain of the world. That speaks of a God who came to this earth in Jesus to show us the way to love and live fully alive lives. Work that invites participation versus performance. For anyone…and everyone…who longs for a more loving, just, open, and abundant world. The Plural Guild is a collective led by the husband and wife team, Lenora and Gary Rand, as well as the members of The Many. pluralguild.com