Community Rhythms
Join us in daily, weekly, and monthly rhythms where we practice doing theology from below, remember our shared vocation, and induct each other into our collective humanity.
Daily Prayer
Join our global community in daily prayer. The digital version of our prayer bead guide is designed to help the Street Psalms community embody our shared vocation and animate our charism of “seeing and celebrating good news in hard places.” Its structure is simple. The prayer beads begin and end at the cross. Six large beads mark the contemplative movements of the prayer: Centering Prayer, See, Do, Be, Free, and the Prayer of Vocation. Small beads indicate specific prayers or reflections within each movement. Contained within the loop of the prayer beads is the “rule” of our community – the questions we hold in common.
Weekly Gospel Lectionary Resources
We follow the three-year Revised Common Lectionary cycle. We are currently in the season of Ordinary Time, Year A:
Our lectionary resources are rooted in perspectives “from below” that embrace abundance and peacemaking. Each week, we offer the gospel text, context, question, community reflections, homily from James Alison, a Girardian reflection, poetry, prayer, and devotionals.
This Week's Lectionary:
Proper 15 (20) – Year A
Welcome to the Twelth Sunday after Pentecost. In this week’s Gospel, Jesus sounds alarmingly like the very system he came to confront. A desperate mother begs for help for her daughter. Jesus responds with what sounds like an ethnic insult: “It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.”
Something is off — way off. Which is the whole point. What’s off is the image of God that excludes or demonizes. That’s what is being healed…
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.
August 12 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PDT
CANCELLED: Street Psalms Preaching Peace Table
August 19 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PDT
CANCELLED: Street Psalms Preaching Peace Table
September 2 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PDT
Street Psalms Preaching Peace Table
September 9 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PDT
Street Psalms Preaching Peace Table
September 16 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PDT
Street Psalms Preaching Peace Table
September 30 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PDT
Street Psalms Preaching Peace Table
October 7 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PDT
Street Psalms Preaching Peace Table
October 14 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PDT
Street Psalms Preaching Peace Table
October 21 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PDT
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.
August 26 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PDT
The Commons
September 23 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PDT
The Commons
October 28 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PDT
The Commons
November 25 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PST
The Commons
December 23 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PST
The Commons
January 27, 2027 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am PST

