Image: Mike Mozart, distributed under a CC BY license. It was basically inevitable that this week’s prayer would lead Holli to imitate Fergie. You’re welcome. This week’s prayer: Proper 17 (BCP p. 233) Lord of all power and might, [...]

Image: Ryanne Lai, distributed under CC BY-NC license. #catdisclaimer The final episode of the show to be released while Brendan is in his 30s. We bewail the lack of Christian unity, again, and debate the merits of the BCP’s birthday prayers. [...]

One of our cohosts is under the weather this week, so we’re publishing an encore edition of our eighteenth episode, featuring special guest The Rev. Megan Castellan – the first clergy person to appear on The Collect Call. Megan, Holli,[...]

Holli and Brendan discuss the proper 13 collect and what it means for the church to be cleansed and defended. This week’s collect: Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in saf[...]

What Bible verse was it where Jesus said to “Love the trolls?” Plus, reflections on the collect for proper 12, allegedly one of the most frequently memorized prayers (call us skeptical). Also: buy a lying down desk for Holli! Thi[...]

As the youth of the Diocese of West Missouri made their way east for a pilgrimage, they stopped for the night at the Episcopal Church of All Saints, Indianapolis, and we recorded a show. This week’s collect: Eternal God, in whose perfe[...]

This coming Sunday is July 3…but avoid the temptation to use the Independence Day propers! This week’s collect: O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Ho[...]

Brendan geeks out over this collect, and Holli is like, meh. Also, an irreverent solution to how confusing it is to tell Elijah and Elisha apart. This week’s collect: Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the [...]

Does God really help and govern those set on the foundation of God’s loving-kindness? Plus, demons, pigs, and why people need to stop saying “you don’t have to check your brain at the door” of the Episcopal Church. Th[...]

St. Barnabas the Apostle: A Filmstrip by The Collect Call (image: By Gerhard Haubold (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)St. Barnabas t[...]