W. David O. Taylor
@wdavidotaylor.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Theology & Culture @fullerseminary. Author: "Prayers for the Pilgrimage" + "A Body of Praise" + "Open & Unafraid." IG: @davidtaylor_theologian. W: https://www.wdavidotaylor.com.
A prayer for all the broken families on Thanksgiving Day.🙏🏼
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A prayer for all the broken families on Thanksgiving Day.🙏🏼
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A Morning Prayer:
O God, enliven the thoughts of my mind, revitalize the cells of my body and cause a fresh outburst of praise to surge in my heart, I pray, so that I may taste the Life that is truly life this day. Amen.
(via “Prayers for the Pilgrimage”)
O God, enliven the thoughts of my mind, revitalize the cells of my body and cause a fresh outburst of praise to surge in my heart, I pray, so that I may taste the Life that is truly life this day. Amen.
(via “Prayers for the Pilgrimage”)
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A Morning Prayer:
O God, enliven the thoughts of my mind, revitalize the cells of my body and cause a fresh outburst of praise to surge in my heart, I pray, so that I may taste the Life that is truly life this day. Amen.
(via “Prayers for the Pilgrimage”)
O God, enliven the thoughts of my mind, revitalize the cells of my body and cause a fresh outburst of praise to surge in my heart, I pray, so that I may taste the Life that is truly life this day. Amen.
(via “Prayers for the Pilgrimage”)
If you’ve ever felt tapped out by life, you know what it looks like. It looks like listlessness, a loss of motivation, a struggle to stay focused, an instinct to seek “sugar-high” distractions, and a heavy weariness of body & mind. It happens to all of us. If that’s you, then this prayer is for you.
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If you’ve ever felt tapped out by life, you know what it looks like. It looks like listlessness, a loss of motivation, a struggle to stay focused, an instinct to seek “sugar-high” distractions, and a heavy weariness of body & mind. It happens to all of us. If that’s you, then this prayer is for you.
There’s a beautiful logic to Flannery O’Connor’s prayer that will recognizable to many artists, and it resembles the logic of the psalmist who isn’t afraid to pray an embarrassingly honest prayer but isn’t afraid either to end his prayer with a holy resignation to God’s often-inscrutable will.
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There’s a beautiful logic to Flannery O’Connor’s prayer that will recognizable to many artists, and it resembles the logic of the psalmist who isn’t afraid to pray an embarrassingly honest prayer but isn’t afraid either to end his prayer with a holy resignation to God’s often-inscrutable will.
A Prayer of Peace for those who go to bed this night troubled in their hearts and minds.
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
A Prayer of Peace for those who go to bed this night troubled in their hearts and minds.
I will never tire of reading Frederick Buechner. I just wish more people today, especially those struggling with their faith, read him. He’s so very good.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I will never tire of reading Frederick Buechner. I just wish more people today, especially those struggling with their faith, read him. He’s so very good.
If you've gone to bed as a dad or mom regretting something you said to your kids, or how you said, or what you did that you probably should've done slightly differently, and you’ve got that sinking feeling in your stomach that you’ve messed up again with your kids, then this prayer is for you.🙏
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
If you've gone to bed as a dad or mom regretting something you said to your kids, or how you said, or what you did that you probably should've done slightly differently, and you’ve got that sinking feeling in your stomach that you’ve messed up again with your kids, then this prayer is for you.🙏
We’ve got a book cover and we love it! With artwork created by the fabulous illustrator Shin Maeng, it’s officially my favorite book cover ever.
Here’s where I explain the details of the cover and what the book itself via @brazospress.bsky.social is on about:
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Here’s where I explain the details of the cover and what the book itself via @brazospress.bsky.social is on about:
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November 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
We’ve got a book cover and we love it! With artwork created by the fabulous illustrator Shin Maeng, it’s officially my favorite book cover ever.
Here’s where I explain the details of the cover and what the book itself via @brazospress.bsky.social is on about:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Here’s where I explain the details of the cover and what the book itself via @brazospress.bsky.social is on about:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
This coming Sunday is “Christ the King Sunday” on the church calendar but there’s always a good reason to pray on any given calendar for God’s upside-down and rightside-up kingdom to be established in our midst.
(via “Prayers for the Pilgrimage”)
(via “Prayers for the Pilgrimage”)
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This coming Sunday is “Christ the King Sunday” on the church calendar but there’s always a good reason to pray on any given calendar for God’s upside-down and rightside-up kingdom to be established in our midst.
(via “Prayers for the Pilgrimage”)
(via “Prayers for the Pilgrimage”)
Every job has it and every day is likely to include it at some point, and while it's easy to resent monotonous work and while it may be oppressive at times, it can become an opportunity to practice the presence of Jesus in the unsung labors that are ours to do by grace.
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Every job has it and every day is likely to include it at some point, and while it's easy to resent monotonous work and while it may be oppressive at times, it can become an opportunity to practice the presence of Jesus in the unsung labors that are ours to do by grace.
A Night Prayer for the Weary:
O Lord, you who promise us your rest, I offer to you my weary body this night, heavy-laden with the cares of this world, and ask that you would speak your word of peace to it, so that it might be repaired by your grace through the watches of the night. Amen.
O Lord, you who promise us your rest, I offer to you my weary body this night, heavy-laden with the cares of this world, and ask that you would speak your word of peace to it, so that it might be repaired by your grace through the watches of the night. Amen.
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
A Night Prayer for the Weary:
O Lord, you who promise us your rest, I offer to you my weary body this night, heavy-laden with the cares of this world, and ask that you would speak your word of peace to it, so that it might be repaired by your grace through the watches of the night. Amen.
O Lord, you who promise us your rest, I offer to you my weary body this night, heavy-laden with the cares of this world, and ask that you would speak your word of peace to it, so that it might be repaired by your grace through the watches of the night. Amen.
A Prayer for Blessing for the Day’s Work:
Bless my mind to discern the one thing that this day requires;
Bless my heart to remain at peace in the face of fear;
Bless my will to resist all needless distractions;
Bless my hands to do the work that you have entrusted to me;
In your name I pray.
Amen.
Bless my mind to discern the one thing that this day requires;
Bless my heart to remain at peace in the face of fear;
Bless my will to resist all needless distractions;
Bless my hands to do the work that you have entrusted to me;
In your name I pray.
Amen.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A Prayer for Blessing for the Day’s Work:
Bless my mind to discern the one thing that this day requires;
Bless my heart to remain at peace in the face of fear;
Bless my will to resist all needless distractions;
Bless my hands to do the work that you have entrusted to me;
In your name I pray.
Amen.
Bless my mind to discern the one thing that this day requires;
Bless my heart to remain at peace in the face of fear;
Bless my will to resist all needless distractions;
Bless my hands to do the work that you have entrusted to me;
In your name I pray.
Amen.
A Prayer for God's Judgment to Begin with the Household of Faith:
(via "Prayers for the Pilgrimage")
(via "Prayers for the Pilgrimage")
November 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A Prayer for God's Judgment to Begin with the Household of Faith:
(via "Prayers for the Pilgrimage")
(via "Prayers for the Pilgrimage")
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
A Morning Prayer for Joy in the midst of Exile:
O Lord, may your joy be a strength for the tired of body, a holy medicine for the faint of spirit and a bond of friendship for the estranged, so that your joy might be a taste this day of our true home in the midst of exile of our lives. Amen.
O Lord, may your joy be a strength for the tired of body, a holy medicine for the faint of spirit and a bond of friendship for the estranged, so that your joy might be a taste this day of our true home in the midst of exile of our lives. Amen.
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
A Morning Prayer for Joy in the midst of Exile:
O Lord, may your joy be a strength for the tired of body, a holy medicine for the faint of spirit and a bond of friendship for the estranged, so that your joy might be a taste this day of our true home in the midst of exile of our lives. Amen.
O Lord, may your joy be a strength for the tired of body, a holy medicine for the faint of spirit and a bond of friendship for the estranged, so that your joy might be a taste this day of our true home in the midst of exile of our lives. Amen.
A Morning Prayer:
O Lord, you who are providentially at work in the world in ways that cannot be empirically explained, open my eyes, I pray, to see how you are bringing about the renewal and repair of this world in ways that defy the metrics of mortals and the presumptions of the nations. Amen.
O Lord, you who are providentially at work in the world in ways that cannot be empirically explained, open my eyes, I pray, to see how you are bringing about the renewal and repair of this world in ways that defy the metrics of mortals and the presumptions of the nations. Amen.
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A Morning Prayer:
O Lord, you who are providentially at work in the world in ways that cannot be empirically explained, open my eyes, I pray, to see how you are bringing about the renewal and repair of this world in ways that defy the metrics of mortals and the presumptions of the nations. Amen.
O Lord, you who are providentially at work in the world in ways that cannot be empirically explained, open my eyes, I pray, to see how you are bringing about the renewal and repair of this world in ways that defy the metrics of mortals and the presumptions of the nations. Amen.
A Morning Prayer:
O Lord, you who order all things well, I commend myself to you this day, this hour, this moment, this place, and ask that you would consecrate the labors of this day, that I may serve you in joy and rest in your sovereign care. I pray this in your good name. Amen.
O Lord, you who order all things well, I commend myself to you this day, this hour, this moment, this place, and ask that you would consecrate the labors of this day, that I may serve you in joy and rest in your sovereign care. I pray this in your good name. Amen.
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A Morning Prayer:
O Lord, you who order all things well, I commend myself to you this day, this hour, this moment, this place, and ask that you would consecrate the labors of this day, that I may serve you in joy and rest in your sovereign care. I pray this in your good name. Amen.
O Lord, you who order all things well, I commend myself to you this day, this hour, this moment, this place, and ask that you would consecrate the labors of this day, that I may serve you in joy and rest in your sovereign care. I pray this in your good name. Amen.
A Beatitude for Social Media:
Blessed are the ones who amplify the voices of the vulnerable, for in doing so they shall discover anew the delight of God‘s heart.
Blessed are the ones who amplify the voices of the vulnerable, for in doing so they shall discover anew the delight of God‘s heart.
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A Beatitude for Social Media:
Blessed are the ones who amplify the voices of the vulnerable, for in doing so they shall discover anew the delight of God‘s heart.
Blessed are the ones who amplify the voices of the vulnerable, for in doing so they shall discover anew the delight of God‘s heart.
A happy All Souls Day, friends!
May we take heart from the cloud of witnesses who suffered the temptations of their own times and places but remained faithful to the One who alone sustains us in the hour of trial.
May we take heart from the cloud of witnesses who suffered the temptations of their own times and places but remained faithful to the One who alone sustains us in the hour of trial.
November 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A happy All Souls Day, friends!
May we take heart from the cloud of witnesses who suffered the temptations of their own times and places but remained faithful to the One who alone sustains us in the hour of trial.
May we take heart from the cloud of witnesses who suffered the temptations of their own times and places but remained faithful to the One who alone sustains us in the hour of trial.
A happy All Saints Day, friends! May you become aflame this day with the love of the Holy Trinity and bear witness in word and deed to all that is good and holy about God’s kingdom.
November 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A happy All Saints Day, friends! May you become aflame this day with the love of the Holy Trinity and bear witness in word and deed to all that is good and holy about God’s kingdom.
There are two things that All Hallow’s Eve invites us to take seriously: the uncontainable merriment that marks God’s creation and the reality of evil. It’s these two things that I sought to give expression to in my prayers for Halloween in my book with @ivpress.bsky.social.
October 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
There are two things that All Hallow’s Eve invites us to take seriously: the uncontainable merriment that marks God’s creation and the reality of evil. It’s these two things that I sought to give expression to in my prayers for Halloween in my book with @ivpress.bsky.social.
A Morning Prayer:
“You will only have to look with your eyes to see how the guilty face Creator’s justice for what they have done.
For you have called Grandfather “my medicine shield” and have made the One Above Us All your home.”
— Psalm 91:8-9 (First Nations Version)
“You will only have to look with your eyes to see how the guilty face Creator’s justice for what they have done.
For you have called Grandfather “my medicine shield” and have made the One Above Us All your home.”
— Psalm 91:8-9 (First Nations Version)
October 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A Morning Prayer:
“You will only have to look with your eyes to see how the guilty face Creator’s justice for what they have done.
For you have called Grandfather “my medicine shield” and have made the One Above Us All your home.”
— Psalm 91:8-9 (First Nations Version)
“You will only have to look with your eyes to see how the guilty face Creator’s justice for what they have done.
For you have called Grandfather “my medicine shield” and have made the One Above Us All your home.”
— Psalm 91:8-9 (First Nations Version)
A prayer for being present to the present this day rather than excessively worrying about yesterday and uncontrollably fretting about tomorrow.
("Prayers for the Pilgrimage")
("Prayers for the Pilgrimage")
October 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A prayer for being present to the present this day rather than excessively worrying about yesterday and uncontrollably fretting about tomorrow.
("Prayers for the Pilgrimage")
("Prayers for the Pilgrimage")
Blessed are those who remain on social media without becoming cynical, petty, or combative.
October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Blessed are those who remain on social media without becoming cynical, petty, or combative.