Welcome to the Street Psalms Hub
Join us in weekly, monthly and seasonal rhythms where we practice doing theology from below, remember our shared vocation and induct each other into our collective humanity.
“Grant us the gift of becoming a community of the Incarnation - mystery of word made flesh, who sees and celebrates good news in hard places.”
(From Prayer of Vocation)
We follow a three-year lectionary cycle. We are currently in Ordinary Time, Year B:
Daily Prayer
This Week's Lectionary Resource
5th Sunday in Lent – Year A
John 11:1-45
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
11:2 Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill.
11:3 So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”
11:4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
11:5 Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus,
11:6 after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.
WEEKLY PREACHING PEACE TABLE
The Preaching Peace Initiative is designed for leaders who are exploring together what it means to teach and preach a liberating Gospel of peace in their city. We currently have two models of Preaching Peace Tables that are open source and available to anyone who wants to develop their own expression: Citywide Table and Church/Ministry Table. Learn more about hosting your own table here.
Street Psalms hosts a weekly table for leaders who facilitate Preaching Peace Tables (or are interested in starting a Table). We gather around the gospel lectionary text to practice doing theology from below. All are welcome to join.
Note: The Street Psalms Preaching Peace Table will be re-launching on December 4, 2024.
December 4 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PST
Street Psalms Preaching Peace Table
December 11 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PST
Street Psalms Preaching Peace Table
December 18 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PST
Street Psalms Preaching Peace Table
MONTHLY COMMONS GATHERING
A monthly service hosted by and for the ordained community, dedicated to remembering our common call to develop incarnational leaders for the sake of the city and the most vulnerable. This service seeks to cultivate community and pathways to formational opportunities, and is open to anyone who wishes to attend. The Commons is on the 4th Wednesday of each month.
November 27 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PST
The Commons
December 25 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PST
cancelled: The Commons
January 22, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PST
The Commons
SEASONAL WORKSHOPS
Join us for seasonal workshops focused on a variety of topics. These sessions will be a way to dive more deeply into content and provide a time of connection. All are welcome to join! See full schedule of upcoming workshops >
January 16, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 9:30 am PST
Forgiving Victim Series, Part 1
February 20, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 9:30 am PST
Introduction to Formational Methodology
March 20, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 9:30 am PDT
Ordination Orientation
PREACHING PEACE TABLES
An initiative designed for leaders who are exploring together what it means to teach and preach a liberating Gospel of peace in their city. Pastors and leaders from a diversity of traditions gather weekly around the gospel lectionary text to ask a simple question. “How do we teach and preach this text for peace from our tradition for the sake of the city?” We currently have two models of Preaching Peace Tables that are open source and available to anyone who wants to develop their own expression: Citywide Table (a group of faith leaders from a specific geography (neighborhood or city)) and Church/Ministry Table (a group of leaders from a particular church/ministry).
Making Peace With God Fellowship
A 9-month fellows program designed for leaders who are exploring ordination with the Street Psalms community. It’s also for leaders who want to undergo the possibility of God in whom there is no violence. In either case, participants are part of a global conversation. They discover for themselves a way of seeing, doing and being that frees them to do things they never thought possible. Practical. Real. Challenging. Liberating. Formational.
Ordination
Street Psalms' ordained global community has a common vocation: to free others to love and serve according to the unique shape of our lives and context. What does this look like? Our ordained community includes nurses, teachers, non-profit leaders, pastors/clergy, and more. What they have in common is shared commitment to seeing and celebrating good news in hard places through a calling to free up others to love and serve. We do not ordain leaders to pastor local churches; rather, we are a sodal community in mission that serves local faith leaders and communities of all kinds who seek the common good of their city.