Table Prayer for a progressive Christian community… | Ponderings.
Rev. Katie Hawker and the folks at Evangelical United Church of Christ here in Webster Groves are, like many progressive congregations, starting to re-shape their communion prayers. Rev. Hawker recently posted one such prayer on her blog.
Rev. Brian Brandsmeier at Faith UCC in Iowa City also posted a non-violent Communion liturgy a while back.
These shifts in worship practice reflect a broader kind of reflection about theologies of atonement, and a reach toward eucharistic theologies that have a different relationship with violence.
I’m grateful to both of these pastors for their initiative in putting alternative prayers out there, and hope that I’ve been helpful as a conversation partner.
What do you think? Are these on the right track? Are they still “really Communion,” or something else?
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