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May 8, 2022May 1, 2023Writing by Eileen Campbell-Reed

A Mother’s Day Prayer

This is a mother’s day prayer. Yet it is not like the ones I grew up hearing. This prayer is more of a psalm and a lament. It lifts up to God the painful and unspeakable facets of mothering and…

November 24, 2021December 18, 2023Writing by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Deep Peace: A prayer for loss and longing and love

Sometimes life and loss and longing and love are more than our words can contain. Through these challenging days, only a prayer of silence is enough. Because the deep peace of silence is all that can hold life as it…

3MMM | Episode 106: Eileen Campbell-Reed on Contemplative Prayer

Contemplative prayer This weekend I shared the “Contemplative Prayer” video with some of my new chaplain friends who serve hospitals and prisons in Cuba. I was glad to share this video in particular because it has new Spanish closed captioning.…

August 12, 2020August 17, 2024Writing by Eileen Campbell-Reed

A Prayer for Teachers

We can always use a prayer for teachers. From preschool to grad school, this time of year is usually punctuated by joyous pictures of students and teachers returning to classrooms. But this year is a strange one. Not like any…

June 3, 2019August 9, 20213MMM Easter 2019 Keeper of the Fire - Year C 2018-19 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 27: Preaching and Prayer

What is the role of prayer and meditation in the practice of ministry? I have worked on that question for many years. It became focused as a question around the time that I finished my doctoral studies. In these last…

March 4, 2019August 3, 20213MMM Keeper of the Fire - Year C 2018-19 Transfiguration Sunday 2019 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 14: Contemplative Prayer

Prayer. What is the connection between the practice of prayer and the practice of ministry? The responses to this question could fill many pages of many books. (My own responses fill many posts in this blog.) The connections we make…

July 2, 2015Ordinary Time 2015 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Ordinary Time – An Evening of Prayer and Worship for Unity

Last night pastors, congregations, professors and students gathered from all around Nashville, Tennessee, to remember the nine men and women who were brutally murdered in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17 at Mother Emmanuel AME Church. We met at Woodmont Baptist…

December 6, 2014Advent 2014 Keeper of the Fire - Year B 2014-15 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Advent III – #AdventVigil Prayers

Advent Vigil O Lord, deliver us from believing that surveillance is a substitute for relationship. Turn us away from thinking cameras alone can deter violence. Give us instead new eyes to see one another with trust and new hearts to…

August 19, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Ordinary Time 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Ordinary Time V – Prayers for Ferguson

Prayers for #Ferguson – Tuesday Yesterday I posted a sweet message about my child’s back-to-school day. Today I’m posting a prayer for the children of #Ferguson who were scheduled to begin classes today, August 19, 2014. Schools will remain closed this…

October 13, 2024October 13, 20243MMM 3MMM Year Six by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 248: How to Worship

Today we are considering the very important question of how to worship? This is our final episode from my conversation with Rev. Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes. What a joy to share Cláudio’s enthusiasm and wisdom for practices of creativity, sustaining the…

Cláudio Carvalhaes talking to Eileen Campbell-Reed and the cover image of the book "Liturgies from Below"

October 6, 2024October 7, 20243MMM 3MMM Year Six by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 247: How to Pray

In my conversation with Rev. Dr Cláudio Carvalhaes this week, we talk about how to pray. We begin with one of Claudio’s recent projects and books Liturgies from Below: Praying with People at the End of the World. The project…

September 29, 2024September 30, 20243MMM 3MMM Year Six by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 246: Sustaining Creativity

This week we welcome Rev. Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes for a conversation about sustaining creativity. In our first conversation last week we talked with Cláudio about how he created the play “When Wajcha Meets Pachamama.” Watch or listen to Episode 245…

September 3, 2024September 3, 2024Writing by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 244: Teaching Pastoral Imagination

I want to talk with you this week about teaching pastoral imagination. As we launch a new year of theological education in the US, I am hearing again: “pastors and ministers are not fully prepared for their work.” Recent studies…

Teaching Resource Gallery

Welcome to the Teaching Resource Gallery! We created it especially for seminary and college professors, congregational and faith community teachers, Clinical Pastoral Education supervisors and educators, and anyone looking for teaching or mentoring resources on topics related to pastoral imagination…