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The Cluttered Mouth

Welcome to The Cluttered Mouth

poetry, prose, prayer, and protest and everything else stuck in my throat

A younger, white woman with curly brown hair lighting up a cigarette.

Tests

Tuesday Lessons from the Lectionary

A yellow flower sticking up from between two hands open like a book.

What Belongs to God?

(Late) Tuesday Lessons from the Lectionary

A man with short brown hair standing in front of what appears to be an alter or rai at the front of a church with the aisle and pews in the background. He has his hands clasped in prayer.

The Point of Evangelism

it's not about hell

A long table set with plates and glasses with a centerpiece of flowers in the middle.

You are Worthy of the Wedding

Tuesday lessons from the Lectionary

A hand letting sand run through its fisted fingers.

Won't Let Go

but Jesus

Essay

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A younger, white woman with curly brown hair lighting up a cigarette.

Tests

A yellow flower sticking up from between two hands open like a book.

What Belongs to God?

A man with short brown hair standing in front of what appears to be an alter or rai at the front of a church with the aisle and pews in the background. He has his hands clasped in prayer.

The Point of Evangelism

Poetry

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A wooden sign with a white panel on the front with words reading, "Next in line for confession" written on it.

Missing the Mark (Sin)

What appears to be two female hands holding a black, leather Bible with a blurry ground behind it.

On Reading The Bible After

A person dressed as a ghost (covered with a sheet and two eyeholes cut out) standing between two brown, grassy hills, waving.

I Need an Exorcism

A picture of the painting "The Sacrifice of Isaac" by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Abraham the Good Man

Lessons from the Lectionary

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A younger, white woman with curly brown hair lighting up a cigarette.

Tests

A yellow flower sticking up from between two hands open like a book.

What Belongs to God?

A long table set with plates and glasses with a centerpiece of flowers in the middle.

You are Worthy of the Wedding

Lessons from the lectionary every Tuesday. Other work as it comes.