Collette Broady Grund

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a blog and resources about love, loss and faith.

Mother and step-mother, pastor and writer, Collette Broady Grund offers her perspective on grief and faith. Scroll down for blog posts and sermons, or click the buttons below to check out her Grief Lectionary Study or contact her about speaking engagements, workshops and small group leadership.

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  • The Grief Lectionary: In the Beginning

    As the Narrative Lectionary cycle begins again, I’m starting a new project. Using the weekly texts from Year 3 (Luke), I’ll be offering reflections rooted in grief. I hope these will be helpful to those trying to locate their own grief in the stories of God, as well as to those who are supporting loves […]

    September 7, 2020
  • Under the Broom Tree

    Elijah went a day’s journey in to the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.” I Kings 19:4 I’m having an Elijah moment this morning, after being […]

    May 11, 2020
  • Field Notes on Living through a Crisis

    It occurred to me a couple days ago that even though this situation is new, and this corona virus is novel, the feelings of daily panic in the face of an uncertain future are old hat for me. As one suddenly widowed last year, I’m no expert on epidemiology or pandemics, but I do know […]

    March 27, 2020
  • A Remembrance of Baptism during Global Pandemic

    We are learning how to be the church while physically distanced from each other in these days of COVID-19, and I have heard so many clergy and lay people lamenting the impossibility of communion. To feed that deep sacramental hunger, I wrote this baptismal remembrance for my congregation to use this week, and I hope […]

    March 19, 2020
  • Confession is a Gift

    Ash Wednesday 2020 Spiritual Practices Series: Confession Mark 9:30-37 This year during Lent, we are focusing on spiritual practices, taking one traditional faith practices of Christian community each week. And we’re not just going to talk about these practices, we are actually going to practice. So if you need a moment to prepare yourself for […]

    February 26, 2020
  • At Least

    If Marrett were alive and aware of how negative the space inside my head is these days, he’d recommend a daily gratitude practice. But, because he’s not, I just can’t get to gratitude most days. Instead, I’ve developed this sad little game I play at the end of each day, which is possibly a step […]

    February 25, 2020
  • The Death (and Resurrection) of Simple

    I miss who I used to be: someone who believed in one love for your whole life, an overly optimistic Pollyanna who could find the silver lining in any situation, someone whose life was simply… SIMPLE. I know that simplicity was always an illusion, one largely supported by the massive privilege I’ve been afforded by […]

    February 10, 2020
  • The Parable of the Bird Poop

    A sermon on Mark 4 A few notes about parables before I really get started: First, there is no one right way to interpret a parable, so please don’t expect me to tell you exactly what this or any parable means or doesn’t mean. Jesus tells us himself that understanding his parables isn’t going to […]

    January 21, 2020
  • Tears and Trumpets: A Sermon on Ezra 3

      Read the Scripture for this sermon here.           Congratulations, people of God, as of today’s reading, we’ve made it through the Old Testament story. We’ve seen God working in partnership with humans from the creation onward, through post-menopausal pregnancies, all night wrestling matches and flaming foliage. God has bound themselves […]

    December 15, 2019
  • Afterlife II: A Resurrection Rant

    At my church’s Wednesday bible study this morning, our text was Acts 24, the eerily parallel account of Paul’s trial before the Roman governor and high priest. He’s on trial, it seems, for his insistence on the resurrection. And not just the resurrection of Jesus, which he proclaims, but about a Way of living a […]

    November 20, 2019
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