Seeking Wisdom: Inclusive Blessings and Prayers for Public Occasions

by Jann Aldredge-Clanton

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2010

Overview

Seeking Wisdom: Inclusive Blessings and Prayers for Public Occasions provides clergy and laypersons with a unique resource to use in community settings, healthcare institutions, and faith communities. These blessings and prayers respect people from diverse religious traditions and use gender-inclusive language for humanity and divinity. Predominant themes are peace, justice, healing, hope, liberation, partnership in relationships, and caring for the earth. This collection includes blessings for such events as community Thanksgiving services, Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations, Women’s History Month celebrations, Holocaust Remembrance Day services, breast cancer survivors celebrations, transplant survivors celebrations, chapel dedications, and memorial services. This book also includes pastoral prayers, invocations, calls to worship, offertory prayers, benedictions, a lament for violence against women and girls, and a lament for other forms of injustice. Seeking Wisdom includes more than 200 inclusive, interfaith blessings and prayers for public occasions which can be adapted or combined to fit specific occasions, providing a valuable resource for clergy and laypeople.

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Key Features

• Offers prayers appropriate for diverse groups of people
• Includes prayers for varied situations and circumstances
• Presents an inclusive work well suited for those who pray in public settings

Contents

• Inclusive Blessings and Prayers for Community Settings
• Inclusive Blessings and Prayers for Healthcare Settings
• Inclusive Blessings and Prayers for Faith Community Settings
• Inclusive Blessings and Prayers for Varied Settings

Product Details

• Title: Seeking Wisdom: Inclusive Blessings and Prayers for Public Occasions
• Author: Jann Aldredge-Clanton
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2010
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 203
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Prayer books; Interfaith worship; Pastoral prayers
• ISBNs: 9781608996018, 9781498256872, 9781621890980, 1608996018, 1498256872, 1621890988
• Resource ID: LLS:SKNGWSDMPBCCSNS
• Resource Type: text.monograph.prayers
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:00:59Z

About Jann Aldredge-Clanton

Jann Aldredge-Clanton is an oncology chaplain at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, and adjunct professor of pastoral theology at Perkins School of Theology. She is the author of numerous books, including Inclusive Hymns for Liberating Christians and Changing Church.