Join us as we enter conversations about baptism at Crossings in this three part podcast.

Join us as we enter conversations about baptism at Crossings in this three part podcast.

Join us as we enter conversations about baptism at Crossings in this three part podcast.

What if Transfiguration Sunday is as much about our own transformation as it is about Jesus’? How do we see ourselves changing? How can we attend to our ever-evolving selves without trying to rush it or force it? What would it mean for us to see our humanity as being brought into God?

Like rings in a tree and onions and ogres and Russian nesting dolls, we as people and we as faith communities carry layers within us. Like the layer Israel built upon return from exile, and the layer Jesus added to the story of God, may we take apart layers of the nesting doll and bless the lives and years we are given.

What are we supposed to be doing with our lives? How can we focus on “everyday heroics” without becoming frozen by the vast brokenness of our world? What does it mean to live into the blessings of a reality that isn't here yet?

The second Sunday after Epiphany invites us to consider what it means to start over and how we might need to, occasionally, look at things anew. How can we honor the past, including the broken parts, and appreciate who we are becoming? How can we be attentive to the particulars so that we can add our light to the world?

How does the season of Ordinary Time and the story of Jesus’ baptism invite us to look at the world differently, through “poet’s eyes?” How might we embrace the ambiguities and confusions of life and still have a clear sense of who we are becoming?

On the 11th day of Christmas, we are invited to imagine what is coming to life in and around us in ways that are outside the traditional expectations of how and where we experience God.

In “Through the Looking-glass,” the White Queen advises Alice to practice believing six impossible things before breakfast each day. Every year around Christmas, it feels like Christians are asked to do the same thing. Joseph, who we don’t often know what to do with in the story, seemed to have a similar experience.