Prayers of Via de Cristo: Calls to Worship for Progressive Christians offers a collection of 125 service prayers created specifically for an informal and introspective Progressive Christian congregation. Comfortable with contemporary situation, conversation, and scholarship, these reflective prayers focus on a wide range of themes and perspectives. The four subsections include All About Us (the wonder of the Creation about us, and our place within it), Inner Workings (the ponderings and challenges of the inner self), Seasons (observances in church and secular calendars), and Special Circumstances (less common situations such as congregational loss, leadership transition, difficult choices, and disaster). Though these prayers were prepared as congregational calls to worship, they have also been found useful by some in other thoughtful and devotional settings. It is the author’s fond hope that this collection, now made available at their quiet insistence, will similarly bless - and perhaps even inspire - a great many more hands, and gatherings, into which these words find their way.