The Parish Podcast

Further focusing on the idea of selfdom (my rule) versus the Kingdom (God's rule), we examine the branches of politics & sexuality as case studies for a life in the Kingdom.

The season of lent brings a collision of kingdoms into full focus. The selfdom (my rule) is at odds with Christ’s kingdom (God’s rule). How might we - in the practical areas of life - be born anew into life in the Kingdom of God?

We enter the story of the Transfiguration as a bridge between Epiphany & Lent, noticing how Jesus re-stories the Bible and is endorsed as the final Word of all God has to say.

This week, we consider how Jesus is re-storying the people of God by cleansing imaginations and showing another way of being in the world.

Reflecting on connections in the stories of the 10 Commandments and the Wedding at Cana, Jordan considers how Jesus might be restorying the promised people of God in the light of Epiphany.

We revisit humanity’s fall into sin, seeing how Jesus reshapes stories of brokenness into stories of healing.

Jesus is at work to not only restore, but also re-story all things. This week, we revisit Act 1 of our story (creation) in the epiphany light of Christ, noting how John’s gospel masterfully presents Jesus as creator and re-creator.

We enter the season of epiphany and explore how Jesus not only restores, but re-stories, everything that came before.

This morning Benjamin Wills spoke of a new song, a chorus of liberation, and how we’re invited to be active participants not in an empire, but a kingdom. The kingdom’s cadence is compassion and curiosity, a keenness to where God is working. Can we hear?

In a follow up to a teaching on Exodus from a few weeks past, Megan Ramsey shares a homily on the liberation of Exodus and the song of liberation we hear throughout the big story.