#nationaldayofprayer — Public Fediverse posts

Today's lectionary didn't get the memo about the National Day of Prayer. The Psalms are lament. Leviticus measures holiness by how we treat the immigrant. Matthew tells us not to worry. A look at what our tradition already quietly accomplishes at: https://notd.io/n/DayofPrayer2026 #NationalDayofPrayer #Prayer #Lectionary #TraditionRemixed #FunctioningFaith #EpiscopalChurch

Today is #NationalDayofPrayer. Celebrate with a copy of "Blessed Are You, Wondrous Universe: A Siddur for Seekers, Non-theistic Jewish prayers" by Herbert J. Levine

https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/blessed-are-you-wondrous-universe-a-siddur-for-seekers/

https://ground.news/article/sudanese-return-to-their-homeland-hoping-for-stability-but-finding-it-still-wrecked-by-war?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=article-share My #EpiscopalChurch has sponsored & supported several #Sudanese #refugees over the years, including a now priest (who is one of my favorite people & the only ordination I’ve attended since Covid) Few, if any, of the families we’ve helped settle in the U.S. are thinking of returning to #Sudan this story reminds us of the importance of welcoming #immigrants & of #home These are people who have fled #war & #famine as the Israelites did in the Old Testament. These are people seeking a better life & future for themselves & their families. When we call for an end to #immigration we forget that our forbears were all #immigrants at some point. We forget that we are called to welcome others as we were welcomed. On the #NationalDayofPrayer let us all pray for the grace to welcome strangers, seeing in them our future friends.

News in #SeparationofChurchandState :

#MikeJohnson's #ChristianNationalist Views Are Alarming

Lawsuit dropped in wake of #Biden rule restoring #religiousfreedom protections for people using federally funded #socialservices

Can a #CharterSchool Be a #ReligiousSchool?

#Religious #pluralism is an #American tradition

#NationalDayofPrayer continues to advance #Christian #Nationalism

An American requiem for the end of #whiteChristianNationalism

https://flipboard.com/@dustcircle/church-state-separation-g5hp0m0uy

NEW STORIES: #SeparationOfChurchAndState -

Onward #Christian Soldiers: Your #Bible Just Keeps Getting Better

#MicheleBachmann Spreads False #ChristianNationalist #History

Local #ChurchState Separation Group to protest #NationalDayofPrayer, Thursday, May 2nd

Dispute over #Satanicclub in #Tenn. #school goes to court

Denial of #ReligiousExemption from #VaccineMandate Did Not Violate Title VII of #Constitution

How an #Ohio group is bringing #God back to #publicschool

https://flipboard.com/@dustcircle/church-state-separation-g5hp0m0uy

#Bales2023FilmChallenge by @bales1181

May 4, 2023: Someone praying

“It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946)

Apparently Jimmy Stewart’s tears in this scene were unscripted and unexpected.

“As I said those words,” Stewart said in 1977, “I felt the loneliness, the hopelessness of people who had nowhere to turn, and my eyes filled with tears. I broke down sobbing. That was not planned at all.”

#ItsAWonderfulLife #JimmyStewart #NationalDayOfPrayer #Cinemastodon #FilmMastodon @film

#Bales2023FilmChallenge May 4: Someone praying on (for?) #NationalDayOfPrayer

Simón is a stylite, living in the Syrian #desert on top of a pillar, close to God, #praying. As with anyone who believes in sin, or desires to be free of sin, sin comes to Simón, as this is #Buñuel's Simón del desierto [San Simeón del desierto aka Simon of the Desert] (1965).

cont. https://write.underworld.fr/settima/bales2023filmchallenge-may-4-someone-praying-on-for

#FilMastodon #CineMastodon @bales1181 @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/