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Lament & Hope: Prayers & Teaching for Justice and Peace

Rev'd Jon Swales

A podcast journey of prayer with a focus on the climate and ecological emergency based around Rev Jon Swales' book '26 Prayers for the Climate and Ecological Emergency' .https://atyourservice.arocha.org/en/26-prayers-for-the-climate-and-ecological-emergency/ Endorsements for PCEE“ - 'Jon Swales has written a series of unflinchingly honest, yet hopeful prayers, addressed to the loving Creator and Redeemer of our broken world. These robustly Trinitarian prayers follow the biblical pattern of praise, confession, and petition, and may be used in personal devotion or communal liturgy. When read meditatively, as a means of Christian formation, these articulations of trust and pain, hope and grief, have the potential to align us with the heart of God.'- J. Richard Middleton, Ph.D.Professor of Biblical Worldview and Exegesis- “We need Jon Swales at this time – pastor, servant, prophet, provocateur. Jon has the kind of gifts that can stir us out of complacency and paralysis on this defining issue of early 21st century discipleship – climate change. Class after class of our students have found Jon’s Old Testament teaching nothing short of inspirational, and his insistence on reclaiming the language of lament to be an epiphany. In these contemporary Psalms, Jon enables us to connect our deep fears and anxieties about the environment with the loving and listening presence of God. They are born out of a deep conviction that the Living God can hear and will act, but they also call us to a lifestyle of ongoing repentance which we are only just beginning to scope out. It’s important that these prayers are now getting an increasingly wider hearing.”-Rev Canon Dr Mark Powley, Principal, St Hild College- “These prayers are not to be read on paper. They are not for a dusty shelves nor to sit in a library. These prayers are to be lived. These words are to be embodied. These prayers are to be chanted on the streets. Sung while locked-on, glued-on, or sitting-in. Whispered while on trial. These prayers are to put our bodies where Christ is found so we might be Christ’s body in ways that move the mountains of injustice and usher in the beauty of God’s healing reign on earth. These prayers should come with a warning, they won’t leave our world the same.”-Jarrod McKenna, ( jarrodmckenna.com )
Episodes
Open & Unafraid: A Prayer for Climate Grief May 27, 2023
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Climate Justice: Session 6- 'Cruciform Adaptation'May 04, 2023
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Climate Justice: Session 5 'Protest and Activism- Driving a Spoke into the Wheel of Climate Injustice'April 11, 2023
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Hope WhispersApril 10, 2023
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Climate Justice- Session 4 'Lament' A Spiritual Resource for a Hurting World'April 03, 2023
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Climate Justice- Session Three 'Discipleship- Reevaluating What we Prize'April 03, 2023
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Climate Justice: Session Two 'Just Jesus- Enacting the Kingdom'March 14, 2023
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Climate Justice: Session One 'The Story We Find Ourselves In'March 13, 2023
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Shelter from the Storm (Psalm 55)March 04, 2023
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The Book of Job (Part Two)- A Sermon by Rev'd Jon SwalesFebruary 14, 2023
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The Book of Job (Part One)- Sermon by Rev'd Jon SwalesFebruary 14, 2023
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Christological Dynamite: Katie and Jon in Conversation at Just Jesus Conference.January 31, 2023
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‘Follow Me’: Just Jesus Conference January 29, 2023
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Creation: Prayers of Lament & Hope for our Wonderful and Wounded WorldJanuary 02, 2023
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New Year 2022/23: A Prayer for the Climate and Ecological EmergencyDecember 27, 2022
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Advent Hope: A Sermon December 20, 2022
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A Liturgy for the EveningNovember 20, 2022
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A Liturgy for the Morning- Prayers for the Climate and Ecological EmergencyNovember 19, 2022
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COP 27- A LamentNovember 04, 2022
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Storm Ian : A Prayer for the Climate and Ecological EmergencyOctober 01, 2022
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Jesus & the Peaceable Kingdom Part SixSeptember 23, 2022
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Jesus & the Peaceable Kingdom Part FiveSeptember 21, 2022
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Jesus & The Peaceable Kingdom Part FourSeptember 21, 2022
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Jesus & the Peaceable Kingdom Part ThreeSeptember 13, 2022
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Two Religions September 12, 2022
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