Oratio is a podcast on Living Scripture as Resistance by Brave Commons.

Join us this week as Michael Vazquez talks about Jesus' teaching about wealth and what it looks like to follow him into the Kingdom of God.

Visit bravecommons.org/oratio for more resources, information, and the text version of this podcast. 

__

Brave Commons seeks to elevate the voices of LGBTQ+ students at Christian universities and beyond. In supporting these communities, Brave Commons seeks to offer accessible faith engagement for all. 

Oratio is a podcast on Living Scripture as Resistance by Brave Commons.

Join us this week as Michael Vazquez talks about honoring our rage in response to recent events through the lens of the lectionary reading of Mark and an additional reading from Isaiah 59. 

Visit bravecommons.org/oratio for more resources, information, and the text version of this podcast. 

__

Brave Commons seeks to elevate the voices of LGBTQ+ students at Christian universities and beyond. In supporting these communities, Brave Commons seeks to offer accessible faith engagement for all. 

Oratio is a podcast on Living Scripture as Resistance by Brave Commons.

Join us this week as Lauren Ileana Sotolongo asks "Who do we believe?" through the lens of the lectionary reading of Esther, Mark, and the happenings of this heavy week. 

Visit bravecommons.org/oratio for more resources, information, and the text version of this podcast. 

__

Brave Commons seeks to elevate the voices of LGBTQ+ students at Christian universities and beyond. In supporting these communities, Brave Commons seeks to offer accessible faith engagement for all. 

Oratio is a podcast on Living Scripture as Resistance by Brave Commons. 

Join us this week as Michael Vazquez talks about greatness and the call of "the way of Jesus" from the lectionary reading in Mark 9:30-37. 

Oratio is a podcast on Living Scripture as Resistance by Brave Commons.

Join us this week as Erin Green talks about "Disarming the Cross" through the lectionary reading of Mark 8. 

Visit bravecommons.org/oratio for more resources, information, and the text version of this podcast. 

__

Brave Commons seeks to elevate the voices of LGBTQ+ students at Christian universities and beyond. In supporting these communities, Brave Commons seeks to offer accessible faith engagement for all. 

Oratio is a podcast on Living Scripture as Resistance by Brave Commons.

Join us this week as Lauren Ileana Sotolongo asks "What are afraid to challenge?" through Mark 7 and the lectionary readings this week. 

Visit bravecommons.org/oratio for more resources, information, and the text version of this podcast. 

__

Brave Commons seeks to elevate the voices of LGBTQ+ students at Christian universities and beyond. In supporting these communities, Brave Commons seeks to offer accessible faith engagement for all. 

___

To access the resources mentioned in the video, visit Enfleshed.com. To search for the specific commentary online, it is called "Jesus and People with Disabilities: Old Stories, New Approaches”.

Join Michael Vazquez this week as he discusses the concept of "Letting Go" in relation to Mark 7 and the other lectionary readings. 

Oratio, a podcast on Living Scripture as Resistance, is hosted by Brave Commons, an organization focused on elevating the voices of LGBTQ+ students at Christian Universities and beyond. 

__

Mark 7:1-8

7 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; 4 and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) 5 So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” 6 He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,

‘This people honors me with their lips,
    but their hearts are far from me;
7 in vain do they worship me,
    teaching human precepts as doctrines.’

8 You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”

__

Blessings and peace. 

As we continue to walk through our journey through John 6, Erin asks the question: Are we living to survive or thrive? 

Brave Commons seeks to elevate the voices of LGBTQ+ students at Christian universities and beyond. In supporting these communities, Brave Commons seeks to offer accessible faith engagement for all. 

The Brave Commons team continues unpacking Scripture as resistance through Oratio, a sermon podcast.

This week, Lauren Ileana Sotolongo looks at the lectionary readings and discusses the theme of "waiting", and existing within "in-between" spaces.

Psalm 130
Ephesians 4:25-5:2
John 6:35, 41-51

Be well. 

The Brave Commons team continues unpacking Scripture as resistance through Oratio, a sermon podcast.

This week, Michael Vazquez looks at the lectionary readings and asks the question "What are we searching for?"

1st Reading: Psalm 51:8-12

2nd Reading: Ephesians 4:1-16

Gospel Reading: John 6:24-35

Be well.