Living Wisely and Loving Well in the Current Crisis

A conversation hosted by Carolyn Arends with Chris Hall, Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove on Living Wisely and Loving Well in the Current Crisis.

An audio-only version is also available.

Here are some resources mentioned in the conversation.

From Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

• The Work We Can Do During Quarantine Article
• Common Prayer App and Website
• The Wisdom of Stability Book 
• Poor People’s Campaign

From Shane Claiborne

• Most of the things we mentioned are linked up on Red Letter Christians and Shane Claiborne websites
• How the War on Christmas Became the Way on Easter (Article on social distancing and worship services)
• Kevin Burns address:
  Pastor Kevin Burns (Chaplain Aide)
  TDOC #254315
  Unit 2 B‑211
  Riverbend Maximum Security Unit
  7475 Cockrill Bend Blvd.
  Nashville, TN 37209
• Kevin Burns sermon
• Below is a prayer Kevin Burns wrote:

A PRAYER FROM DEATH-ROW by Pastor Kevin Burns

O LORD GOD,
even The GOD and FATHER of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS, The CHRIST LORD GOD, You are HOLY and RIGHTEOUS;
GRACIOUS and altogether TRUE.
YOUR Mercies are everlasting, and they are renewed every morning.
O LORD GOD,
unto THEE do I lift up my Soul.
And unto THEE do I cry in despair.
Have mercy on me LORD, I pray, and deliver me.
Deliver me from those who are too Strong for me:
And deliver me from certain death.
YOU said in YOUR WORD, that YOU looked down from the height of YOUR Sanctuary; From Heaven YOU beheld the earth; To hear the groaning of the prisoners;
To loose those that are appointed to death.
Behold, I am in prison, and they have appointed my soul for death.
But unto YOU, O LORD my GOD, do I make my appeal.
For YOU are that GOD that took me from my Mother’s bosom, and declared YOUR Love for me, and made YOUR covenant with me, and told me that YOU will never leave me nor forsake me.
But that YOU will be with me always, even until the end of the World:
And caused me to hope in YOU.
And now, O LORD my GOD, in THEE do I put my Trust.
Let me not be brought to shame.
Neither let any that Trust in YOUR HOLY NAME be brought to shame.
But bring me out of this prison swiftly, I pray;
And deliver me by a strong HAND, O LOVER of my soul.
In the NAME of JESUS, I pray AMEN, and AMEN!

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