Prayer of Confession Contemplating America’s 250th Anniversary
“we hear histories told backwards, shuffled and reconstructed to assure us that the ideas we like best are at the heart of who we’ve always been.”
Ruth 3:1-18
“the man was startled and turned over, and there, lying at his feet, was a woman!”
NL
June 14, 2026
1 Kings 3
“Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David”
1 Kings 2
“you will know what you ought to do to him, and you must bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol”
1 Kings 1
“let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be his attendant”
Ruth 2:1-23
“please, let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the reapers”
NL
June 7, 2026
Galatians 4
“you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir through God”
Ruth 1:1-22
“call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt bitterly with me”
Narrative Lectionary
May 31, 2026
Galatians 1
“Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to set us free from the present evil age”
2 Samuel 23
“the Israelites withdrew, but he stood his ground”