Our texts this week are here

Our prayer this week is “Blessing the Way” by Jan Richardson from her book Circle of Grace

Music for the season: Alicia’s Advent Playlist and Matt’s Advent EP

Our in-house Advent devotional guide: Prepare the Way

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Our texts this week are here

Our prayer this week is “Blessing When the World is Ending” by Jan Richardson from her book Circle of Grace

Music for the season: Alicia’s Advent Playlist and Matt’s Advent EP

Our in-house Advent devotional guide: Prepare the Way

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Browse our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount

Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

Hi everyone! A quick announcement: no new episode this week or next week.

We’re moving into Isaiah for Advent Year A (the texts are here). 

Check out our Advent devotional guide, Prepare The Way  and Alicia's annual Advent Spotify playlist.

If you enjoy our podcast music, our producer Matt is releasing a special EP for Advent. Starting November 27th, he’ll release one track every Sunday tying into the themes of Advent — Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. For updates on how to listen, you can follow him on social media — @SonTerreMusic – and https://www.mattgosemusic.com/

Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount You can still watch the replay of our Advent Planning Workshop!

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Our texts this week are here

Our prayer this week is from Jan Richardson, “On The Feast of All Saints”  

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Follow Matt @SonTerreMusic for more info about his EP!

Our texts this week are here

Our prayer this week: “A Liturgy Before Giving (II)” from Every Moment Holy (Vol 1) (using this affiliate link helps us with a small commission and is a great way to support the show)

For a deeper dive into the powers and principalities, check out The Word Before the Powers.

Check out the Slow Money Network and CNote for ideas on alternative investing.

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Our texts this week are here

Our prayer this week: “A Prayer for Reconciliation” from Daily Prayer With The Corrymeela Community (using this affiliate link helps us with a small commission and is a great way to support the show)

For practices for attending and describing Scripture texts, check out Anna Carter Florence’s book, Preaching as Testimony. 

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Our texts this week are here

Our prayer this week is: "A Prayer for the Tired, Angry Ones" by Laura Jean Thurman in Sarah Bessey's collection A Rhythm of Prayer  (using this affiliate link helps us with a small commission and is a great way to support the show– AND Bookshop.org is offering free shipping October 11 & 12, so now is a perfect time to buy some books!)

GIVEAWAY: Send a screenshot of your recent review of the APA Podcast to [email protected] and you will be entered to win a gift box! One entry per person; a winner will be chosen at random and notified on November 1st with an email reply to the original entry email. 

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Our texts this week are here 

Our prayer this week: “A Blessing for a New Beginning” from John O’Donohue’s collection To Bless The Space Between Us (using this affiliate link helps us with a small commission and is a great way to support the show)

Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

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Our texts this week are here.

Our prayer this week is “Yes” from Walter Brueggemann’s collection Awed To Heaven, Rooted In Earth. Browse the rest of our curated book lists through our Bookshop.org affiliate link here: https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount. We’ll get a small commission if you purchase this way, which is a great way to support the show!

A quote to consider: “The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” - from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Join us on Patreon and become a friend of the show! https://patreon.com/aplainaccount   Patreon, for those who don’t know, is an interface that allows supporters of the show to engage and build community, while sustaining our work on the podcast. The episodes on our main feed will continue to be freely available to everyone who wants to listen, but our Patreon community will be able to actively participate in so much more. Stay tuned for more information about how you can join us on Patreon, support our work, and participate in extra events/webinars/discussions as a friend of the show

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Our texts this week are here: https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=281

Our prayer this week is from Malcolm Guite’s collection Parable and Paradox. We also mentioned the prayer of confession from The Book of Common Prayer. Browse the rest of our curated book lists through our Bookshop.org affiliate link here: https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount. We’ll get a small commission if you purchase this way.

Alabaster Bibles integrate visual imagery and thoughtful design into different books of the Bible.

Join us on Patreon and become a friend of the show! https://patreon.com/aplainaccount   Patreon, for those who don’t know, is an interface that allows supporters of the show to engage and build community, while sustaining our work on the podcast. The episodes on our main feed will continue to be freely available to everyone who wants to listen, but our Patreon community will be able to actively participate in so much more. Stay tuned for more information about how you can join us on Patreon, support our work, and participate in extra events/webinars/discussions as a friend of the show

Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.