Stephanie Dunlap – Street Psalms

Spiritual Guides – The Welcoming Prayer

By Stephanie Dunlap | December 17, 2015 |

Acceptance for healing.

Good God

By Stephanie Dunlap | October 8, 2015 |

Is there enough good for all of us?

Rite of Passage to Adulthood Liturgy

By Stephanie Dunlap | September 26, 2015 |

A community liturgy for celebrating and ushering a young person into adulthood around age 13.

Meditations on (Un) Cleanliness

By Stephanie Dunlap | August 27, 2015 |

Undermining Jesus’s call to love.

Pawn of Desire

By Stephanie Dunlap | July 10, 2015 |

A young seductress or victim?

Coming Home

By Stephanie Dunlap | March 27, 2015 |

This Sunday is Palm Sunday, when Jesus makes what some Christians refer to as his “Triumphal Entry” into Jerusalem on the back of a young donkey. Crowds cheered and hailed him. “Hosanna!”

So there’s Jesus, fully human and fully divine – but he couldn’t have felt all that triumphant. He knew well to distrust fickle crowds, and he probably knew that in this very crowd were the same faithful who would crucify him five days later.

Awake For What?

By Stephanie Dunlap | November 29, 2014 |

How much and how many can we care about before our hearts grow sleepy? There is so much to be aware of that things can dull to a low hum. It’s a struggle to stay present. Addictions large and small help take the edge off, keeping us drowsy.

Hospitality Among the Flies

By Stephanie Dunlap | June 27, 2014 |

“Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.”