Sunday’s Call, by Thomas Traeger

One: Praise the Source of faith and learning that has sparked and stoked the mind with a passion for discerning how the world has been designed.

All: Let the sense of wonder flowing from the wonders we survey keep our faith forever growing and renew our need to pray.

One: God of wisdom, we acknowledge that our science and our art and the breadth of human knowledge only partial truth impart.

All: Far beyond our calculation lies a depth cannot sound where your purpose for creating and the pulse of life are found.

One: May our faith redeem the blunder of believing that our thought has displaced the grounds for wonder which the ancient prophets taught.

All:       May our learning curb the error which unthinking faith can breed lest we justify some terror with an antiquated creed.

One:      As two currents in a river fight each other’s undertow till converging they deliver one coherent steady flow.

All: Blend, O God, our faith and learning till they carve a single course, till they join as one, returning praise and thanks to you, their Source. 

by Thomas Traeger, from the hymn “Praise the Source of Faith and Learning”