The Table Church DC

Sunday, April 16, 2023. Preacher: Anthony Parrott.

The good news: we can heal from trauma! 

The bad news: abuse and trauma can make the things that can bring healing seem bad.

It is a clinically proven fact that the one thing that can help someone heal from abuse, neglect, or trauma is relationship. 

In foster and adoptive world, where I come from, children that suffer neglect or abuse begin to fear all forms of relationship. 

So we end up in paradox. We want to feel close to God. Community, small groups, prayer, Bible study worship, meditation can help. But now they taste like food-poisioning chorizo.

Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023. Preacher: Anthony Parrott. Before the resurrection, the Gospels set the scene: disbelief, doubt, grief, fear, and lament.

Your hard emotions aren't keeping you from God. In fact, they are the very thing that may lead to your encounter with the Divine. 

Sunday, April 2, 2023. 

Sunday, March 26, 2023. Preacher Meg Clark.

Sunday, March 19, 2023

Sunday, March 12, 2023.

Sunday, March 5, 2023. Preacher: Anthony Parrott

We kick off our 5-week series on Lamentations during the Lenten season. Pastor Anthony starts us off with an exploration of the historical context of Lamentations, as well as explores why it seems like so many pastors and churches seem to think that having negative feelings isn't okay.

Sunday, February 26, 2023. Preacher: Anthony Parrott. Jesus was not a centrist. He did not command us to not make enemies. We need to be able to name our enmities in order to overcome them.

Sunday, February 19, 2023. 

Sunday, February 12, 2023.

This year we're introducing Theology Cafe. We're going to start questioning the default by looking at the wide variety of other ways of constructing our theology. Everyone does theology. Even the statement, "I don't need theology," is a form of theology. 

Our plan for 2023 is to every few months take a look at a different lens and experience of theology. Feminist, Asian American Women, Queer, Latinx, and Indigenous Theology. This month, in light of Black History Month, we're taking a look at Black Theology.

In each Theology cafe, we're going to invite a practitioner and scholar of the week's theme to share with us. 

Today, we have a pre-recorded video by Dr. Adam Clark of Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH. He currently serves as co-chair of the Black Theology Group at the American Academy of Religion and actively publishes in the area of black theology and black religion and participates in social justice groups.  He is committed to the idea that theological education in the twenty-first century must function as a counter-story—one that equips us to read against the grain of the dominant culture and inspires one to live into the dictum of St. Ignatius, of going forth "to set the world on fire."