Sojourn Grace Collective

As the Founder of Gender YOUphoria--a social enterprise on a mission to shift the disempowering narratives about transgender people--Ashton Colby is a leader in transgender integrative health. Sojourn is PROUD to invite Ashton to share with our community about the ways in which being Transgender has been a gift to him. Learn more about him and his work here: https://www.ashtoncolby.com

June 5th is Pentecost in the church calendar, aka the birth of the Church. And what happened then? The Spirit of God, well, she took sameness and mixed it all up. Same thing God did at the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11. It’s almost as though God PREFERS difference and diversity (to that of sameness and conformity).

Special guest, author and activist Brian McLaren joins Sojourn this week to give a talk titled, “Jesus Beyond Dualism.” Brian shares ideas from his latest book, “Do I Stay Christian?” Which can be checked out here: http://brianmclaren.net/books-by-brian-mclaren

In many of our church-world’s growing up, we were taught explicitly to mistrust our heart. Join Pastor Kate as she leads us in a meditation designed to help re-write those old/bad ideas. PLUS: Music from Colby and Karyn (“I Know,” by Birdtalker) and Colby/Missy/Laura (mashup of John Lennon’s “Imagine” with “Amazing Grace”)

Pastor Kate shares a letter to all those who mother. All those who hold and support and nurture... within a society that does not often provide the same kind of support in return.

‘Round here we say that “Wholeness” is our Vision. And that’s cool and all, but it can sound a bit highfalutin at times. So this week, Colby connects four stories from the gospels (a Roman centurion, a bleeding woman, a pagan mother, and a woman known as “Sinner”) in order to show us where the journey toward wholeness must begin.

Pastor Kate loves gardening. And garden metaphors. And mushrooms? Well, she finds them endlessly fascinating. Listen in for a trip of a metaphor about a life of composting.

Happy Easter! For this year’s message, Pastor Colby wraps up our Lent series of writing letters to past versions of ourselves in order to prepare us for the upcoming death of our religious ideas. This week, hear Pastor Colby share what it feels like, nowadays, to “lead a church.” Plus, a celebration of what he now believes!

Pastor Kate writes a letter to her younger self who always seems perplexed by this earnest desire to hear and know God's will, coupled with the confusion at why it seems so unknowable.

We continue our Lent series, "Preparing for the Death of Your Religion," by writing letters to our past selves, preparing us for the upcoming death of our religious ideas, hopes, and expectations. Today, our favorite Drag Queen, Flamy Grant, shares a letter she wrote to her past self about how one day she won't need to keep herself hidden.