2025 Advent Devotional
ReconcilingWorks Resource
ReconcilingWorks is delighted to share a brand-new free Advent Devotional to accompany you through this sacred season of hope, peace, joy, and love. Written by Rev. Liza Hawkins (she/they), this resource offers weekly reflections, prayers, and actions to help you and your community prepare their hearts for the coming of Christ.
"An LGBTQIA+ Stations of the Cross Lenten Journey" 2021 Devotional
ReconcilingWorks Resource
This resource is intended to be a way to live into knowing how God has gone before us. It is up to us, as the hands and feet of the Divine, to allow our hearts and minds to be transformed and in so doing, we transform the world as it is in this moment into a place where all are truly welcome and celebrated. Just as God has already gone before us to prepare the place, as we walk through the journey of Lent toward Holy Week, let us be reminded that the experience of faith, hope, and love, lived out in our everyday lives, is not only the promise God has made to us, but the promise we make to one another as we live into, celebrate, and become our most authentic selves. For printing, we suggest this printer-friendly version with a white background.
Liturgy of Welcome
ReconcilingWorks Resource
A liturgy service celebrating the inclusiveness of God's love and grace, created by Kenny Callaghan for the 2016 ReconcilingWorks RIC Sunday Service. Dedicated to the people who have felt marginalized, abandoned or rejected by the Church.
Reconciling Scripture for Lutherans: On Sexuality & Gender Identity
ReconcilingWorks Resource
A short commentary which takes into account biblical integrity and knowledge, key Lutheran interpretative lenses, and the diverse experiences of the LGBTQ+ community. Written by Rev. Emmy Kegler and Austen Hartke, this commentary addresses eight of the so-called “clobber passages” used to exclude LGBTQ+ people from the body of Christ, and finishes with eight Bible passages that offer inclusive and expansive understandings of the nature of God’s welcome. Our hope is that these interpretations, based in scripture, tradition, and reason, may lead to a deeper understanding of our LGBTQ+ siblings in Christ and continued acts of reconciliation within God’s family.
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