We give a fresh take on what church is, and explore how church can give us a fresh take on everything.

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Original Score by Julius Obregon Jr.

We explore how we might recognize God’s Spirit subtly moving in us, and in our world, in something we’ve seen many, many times before but never truly seen.

We explore how the line, “He ascended into Heaven and sits and the right hand of God” is not so much a cartoony picture of Jesus floating up to the clouds, but a picture of Christ bringing peace and beauty to the deepest (and lowest!) places of our lives and world.

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In summarizing the entire life and work of Jesus in only two words, the Creed says, “he suffered.”

That’s a log way from quick, feel-good fixes. So, this time we dive straight into the difficult question, “Why did Jesus have to suffer and die?” and explore how a few words about suffering and death might connect us to life itself.

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We explore how it might be good news to have, at some level, a Lord running things, and how this Lord might enter our reality through our own actual experience of something like a virgin birth.

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How we might keep our beliefs in Jesus' humanity and divinity from remaining as unnoticed as an song that’s playing in a waiting room, or from staying at the level of platitude and opinion, and instead becoming the kinds of beliefs that shape how we actually think, feel, and act.

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Engaging some of the keys ways the Christian church has talked about God, found in the first line of the Apostles’ Creed, we explore the role of metaphor, and how it helps us in moments where the best way to talk about some truth is to say something that is true in some ways and not true in others. 

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Original Score by Julius Obregon Jr.

With guest Kevin Portillo, we explore the Apostles' Creed line by line in a way that helps us hear words that go back to the earliest days of the Christian Faith as an invitation to and guide for a way of life, and perhaps to speak it as something like a Pledge of Allegiance that transcends borders and cultures and epochs.

This time we look at how the Apostles’ Creed was used to explore what a creed like this really is, and what it can be.

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Original Score by Julius Obregon Jr.

Coming next week: The Apostles' Creed as something like an invitation to a way of life, or a Pledge of Allegiance that transcends boarders and epochs. 

We look at Maximus the Confessor, a Saint who gave up his right hand and tongue for what might seem like a bit of nerdy theological trivia, but that might end up freeing you to better choose what is good and helping nations overcome the evils of colonialism.

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Original Score by Julius Obregon Jr.