As we honor Martin Luther King Jr, Pastor Kate invites us to consider how we/the church have failed to fully and accurately represent the words and life of both MLK and Jesus.

Plus, a Lectio Divina meditation from Luke 4 led by Pastor Colby.

As we turn the page on another calendar year gone by, we spend time in reflection on what we LOSS in 2020, what we GAINED during the year of the pandemic, and then we look ahead toward 2021 for what we dare to HOPE. Join co-pastors Colby and Kate as they lead in these guided thought exercises and mediations.

PLUS: Music from Wide Open Commons, “Somehow it All Belongs”

Sojourn welcomes special guest speaker, artist Scott Erickson. Scott shares from his newest book, Honest Advent, about the ways in which “surprise” is the antidote for our assumptions. Listen in as we hear about the vulnerability of transformation, the scary proposition of loneliness, and the invitation to follow the leading of God.

Join Pastor Kate as she reads “All the Colors of Christmas,” by Matthew Paul Turner, and then reflects on how YOU are the reason for the season.

(Also featuring a meditation from Huck & Fable!)

The angels told the shepherds there was "good news." Their "Savior" had been born. Wait, a baby? That's the good news? THAT is their "Savior?" In this spiritual nugget, Pastor Colby explores how salvation (but not the "go to heaven when you die" kind) is sorta like a baby.

Keep your eyes open for signs of salvation this Advent season.

Special Guest Lauren DeLeary virtually visits Sojourn to share with us her insights in to restoring a spiritual connection to the earth.

Lauren is a former evangelical CCM touring artist who now resides in Nashville and hosts a podcast with her husband called “Deconstruct,” where they explore the spaces of deconstructing an evangelical faith heritage. Lauren is also a member of the Chippewa of the Thames First Nation & sheds light onto the ways we can decolonize & indigenize the future. Learn more at: laurendeleary.com

Beginning with our hunter-gather ancestors, up through medieval agrarian farmers, and to today's low wage factory worker, Pastor Colby explores our species relationship to "work."

We live in a world today that insists life is all about doing stuff and getting stuff, and key to the whole game is "work."

But our souls need Sabbath.

Our souls need to value something different.

Listen to this Spiritual Nugget and find rest for your weary (over-worked) soul.

Perhaps you’ve experienced this before: you take some new paths in life, grow, transform, evolve… then you go back home and your family and old friends are like, “WTH?” Who ARE you?”

Jesus had that happen, too. In this Spiritual Nugget, Pastor Colby normalizes this experience for us, and encourages us to just look for the small moments here and there to sprinkle love and peace.

As we come together to celebrate the recent election (and the loud NO THANK YOU to another four years of the current administration) Pastor Kate wisely calls us to the truth that true unity can only be found on the other side of Justice.

PLUS: a meditation from Pastor Colby inviting us to remember our ‘Shared Humanity.”

One of our values at Sojourn is to not only hear the stories of the people in our community, but reinforce the idea that our pastors/leaders are not the harbingers of all things truth and authority. You have fountains of wisdom and beauty and truth inside you, and so does everyone else. Joining our livestream this week was Jesse Hawkins—a newer Sojourner, since quarantine—sharing a Faith Formation Story that many in the Sojo community can relate to.