1st Sunday in Lent – Street Psalms

Symbolic Universe

By Kris Rocke | February 28, 2025 |

He was asked to lead a seminar for urban youth. A young lady walked in just as it was about to start and asked what the topic would be. When he told her it was about how to survive in the city, she immediately replied, “Oh, that’s easy! You only need three things…”

Ash Wednesday & 1st Sunday in Lent – Year B

By Street Psalms | February 12, 2024 |

Mark 1:9-15

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

1:10 And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him.

1:11 And a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.”

It is Written

By Scott Dewey | February 25, 2023 |

“God hates,” men told her. Many men in fact, many times. Because they were religious, she believed them, because she wished to believe in God. The men held the sacred writings, copied from goat skins to gilded pages to church multimedia screens.

No Buyer’s Remorse

By Jenna Smith | March 4, 2022 |

This Sunday, we find ourselves at the start of lent. The spiritual sobriety of this season feels very reflective of the sobriety of Jesus’ actions during his temptation in the desert.

Remember our Baptism

By Lina Thompson | February 19, 2021 |

Alimentando El Pueblo (Feeding El Pueblo) is a food distribution initiative that specifically caters to the Latinx community in my area. This idea came from within the heart of the community…

Setting Out From Where You Are

By Joel Van Dyke | February 28, 2020 |

After an encounter with the shadowlands of Ash Wednesday, we now sit silently in front of an opened curtain, revealing the five-week theater that is the Valley of Lent. The Gospel narrative for the first Sunday of Lent is that of the desert temptation.

Into the Wilderness

By Lina Thompson | February 16, 2018 |

One of my brothers was a college football All-American. He broke and set many conference and national records. He was a Heisman trophy candidate his senior year, and the third pick in the first NFL draft. This was in the late 1970’s—well before social media. But for what it was, there was quite a bit of media attention that surrounded him.

Wilderness Wander – Setting out from where you are

By Joel Van Dyke | March 3, 2017 |

“Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” Matthew 4:1-11 After an encounter with the shadowlands of Ash Wednesday two days ago,…

Bread, Temple, and Crown: a Lenten Invitation

By Joel Van Dyke | February 20, 2015 |

This week we celebrated Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Christians worldwide will enter into a heightened time (40 days) of prayer, reflection, and spiritual companionship with Jesus to the cross. At Street Psalms we are grateful for this annual pilgrimage that awakens our individual and collective hearts to our own true desire.