That's What She Said

What is the Gospel According to Queer Eye, in the context of our economy? Well, just take a listen...

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We loved Rev. Shannon Moore so much, we brought him back! This week we are wrestling with a story from Luke that can feel really, really icky. What Rev. Moore does with the passage is really fascinating, as is the following communion reflection from co-conspirator Eleanor Garrett-Grimsley. This one is gonna make you think.

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Sometimes *Your* Table Is Jesus’s Table. There are cases where Jesus doesn’t really wait for you to come to him; he comes to you. Rev. Shannon Moore of University Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Fort Worth is preaching this week!

Praying With Empty Hands. Like the widow who needs justice... Like the tax collector who pleads mercy... Like a child with nothing to offer. That’s how we pray. 

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This Religion Is Very Big. These two stories, back to back, are a study in contrast – Jesus healing with compassion, Jesus ranting about the end-of-days – can they both be the same guy? Can we appreciate “both” Jesuses? Is our mental-emotional-spiritual capacity big enough to hold it all? 

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How Money Shapes Identity. These parables about money, dis/honesty, generosity, wealth, and poverty, taken together with the audience of VRPs who are “lovers of money,” are typical of Luke’s Jesus, who thinks he can tell a lot about a person by how they deal with $$. 

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Spiritual commitment has material consequences. We sometimes talk of Christian faith as a spiritualized, internal, privatized experience. But for ancestors, as for us, discipleship has externalized, material consequences. Our resources come under the command of God’s imagined future, and we practice little instances of the cosmic reign of God in our open-handed sharing of the fruit of our labor. Ashley Dargai preaches this week!

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Listen, and don’t forget. The quickest way to idolatry is forgetfulness, and the myths of self-reliance and self-service that we put in place of God’s work on our behalf. The community that remembers where it came from, and how it got to where it is now, is powerful indeed.

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We tend to take more than our share. We are hunter-gatherers, always on the lookout for more resources, comforts, pleasures for ourselves. Our wants compete powerfully with what God wants, at least in our own hearts. What recommendations (commandments!?) does God have for keeping us in good stead with our neighbors? And how does Jesus extend the trajectory? And what does any of that mean for us? 

This week we have a very special guest speaker: Doug Pagitt, who just published a new book titled, “Outdoing Jesus: Seven Ways to Live Out the Promise of Greater Than.” In this episode, Doug speaks to us on what it might mean to outdo Jesus (John 14:12 gives us a good starting point), looking to the story of Jesus healing a Roman official’s son (as told in John 4:43-54) for inspiration.