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About kathrynrickert

Possibly from watching the movie Bambie at the age of 6, I have had a life-long awareness that saying ONLY nice things, does not make the world just or kind. Thus, my 2009 doctoral dissertation..."Talking Back to God" , is one of the main aspects of the work I do. Always interdisciplinary, seeking connections across borders that are usually marked with DO NOT ENTER, I seek to pay attention, pray, think, create,and imagine using biblical laments, Christian worship texts, and the ordinary stuff of everyday life.

A Reconciling Rite for the Brokenhearted

Posted on September 22, 2011 by kathrynrickert

“A Reconciling Rite of Consolation and Hope for the Broken-hearted” Moving from Mourning into Joy, Reconciling Gifts of Grace from God Preparation: Arrange the gathering in a circle, with some kind of table in the center.   On this table have … Continue reading →

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Commemorating David Pendleton Oakerhater in Light of the Doctrine of Discovery

Posted on September 2, 2011 by kathrynrickert

 A Commemoration of David Pendleton Oakerhater Deacon and Missionary of the Cheyenne, 1931  God’s Warrior               …in light of the Doctrine of Discovery       Thursday, September 1, 2011 Saint Mark’s Cathedral Seattle, … Continue reading →

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Poem / prayer on Giving Thanks

Posted on April 29, 2011 by kathrynrickert

…there is no door on the inside of grief. Continue reading →

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A Hate Crime on my Street

Posted on April 16, 2011 by kathrynrickert

We live close enough to Puget Sound so that there is some kind of economic screen, between the kinds of crime and problems that show up on police records in the newspaper that usually happen on the other side of … Continue reading →

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Lamentation over the Doctrine of Discovery

Posted on April 5, 2011 by kathrynrickert

Just the idea that such a thing could happen, even if it does not, is miles beyond what I had dreamed possible! Thanks be to God. Working with this group in this way is simply amazing; no one is trying … Continue reading →

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Wintertalk 2011

Posted on January 25, 2011 by kathrynrickert

the “official” words about this event. I do this, because they are important
and describe well what happened: Continue reading →

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Pondering Native Americans and “Thanksgiving”

Posted on November 30, 2010 by kathrynrickert

For righteousness and peace will show their faces
to those who feed the hungry in their need,
and wrongs redress, who build the old waste places,
and in the darkness shine.
Divine, divine, divine it is when all combine! Continue reading →

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C.S. Lewis and UN MDG #2 learning to read

Posted on November 8, 2010 by kathrynrickert

“But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping.” C. S. Lewis Continue reading →

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ENTERING INTO THE DEPTH OF HUMANITY THROUGH FILM…EXPIRATION DATE, THE MOVIE, NOV 12TH, ST MARK’S CATHEDRAL

Posted on November 6, 2010 by kathrynrickert

One way to begin to enter into the depths of humanity…film

Sharing Too Much! Continue reading →

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Singing Together, or more than one way to be a multicultural church

Posted on October 4, 2010 by kathrynrickert

It is difficult to read piano music with tears in one’s eyes.

The awkward beginning and insecurity around how people who speak distinct languages connect with each other was not indicative of the quality of the gathering as it unfolded. Continue reading →

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