Asking for Wonder

Writings & Works by John Jones

Tag: liturgy

A Liturgy for Those Whose Plans Did Not Go How They Thought It Would

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On July 31, 2022

In POETRY, WRITINGS

The following is a liturgy I crafted by combining and adapting elements from Douglas McKelvey’s Liturgy for the Death of a Dream and Liturgy for Those Who Have Not Done Great Things for God from the book Every Moment Holy.

I had the opportunity to give a sermon during a Spring Break trip for Campus Christian Fellowship at Truman on my experience with graduate school applications and rejections, and I closed the sermon out with this liturgy. I thought it may be useful to others that have experienced similar feelings as I have.

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Post-Denominationalism: Preservation or Plague?

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On March 1, 2020

In WRITINGS

Last week, I got the chance to talk with someone that I never thought I would get the chance to talk to – an Anglican priest. Suffice to say, Anglican priests are not exactly a dime a dozen in Kirksville, Missouri, so when I got the chance to talk with one, I jumped at it.

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Finding What’s Been Found

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On October 5, 2019

In WRITINGS

Learning to Use Liturgy

I didn’t grow up Catholic. Or Lutheran. Or Methodist. Or Anglican. Or any of the denominations that even remotely use liturgy. And while I did grow up in within the faith, I never used liturgy growing up.

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