Vox Veniae Podcast

By Vox Veniae

The work of the people. Our weekly rhythm of being together as a larger community to worship and confess, to engage scripture and prayer, to celebrate eucharist, and to be sent back into the city with... more

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August 30, 2026Jesus and Blackwater Pond
Catherine Johnson reframes Jesus’ invitation to “lose your life” not as self-erasure, but as a release from the survival strategies we cling to for safety. Jesus models another way: to live from our deepest values even in the presence of fear and loss—to love what is mortal, hold it fully, and, when the time comes, let it go.

Reflection Questions
What survival strategy has helped protect you in the past but may no longer be serving you in the present?
Where in your life are fear or self-preservation tempting you to act against what you most deeply value?
What might it mean for you right now to practice the movement of loving, holding, and letting go?
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26min
August 23, 2026Transformed Into Community
With a new school year and new expectations approaching this fall, Lilly Ettinger notices that it can be easy to feel overwhelmed and on our own. God reminds us that we are not isolated human beings, but part of a community that helps us not to conform to hyperindividualism, but to lean into being a part of the story of God and the world.

Reflection Questions
Where in your life are you acting as though you have to do it alone?
What becomes possible when we understand ourselves as members of one another?
Where might God be inviting you to create the community you also need?

Tags: Spiritual Growth, Progressive Church, Community, Transformation
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32min
August 16, 2026Finding a Place You Already Belong
Vanessa Maleare Interviews Dr. Lynn Osgood, Vox’s new Scholar in Residence, as she explores our sense of calling through the theology of placemaking, asking how the physical places we inhabit shape us, and how our calling shapes those places in return.

Reflection Questions
When in your life have you felt a call?
What did that call feel like in your body?
What difference did you witness between the call you felt and how it lived out in the world?
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26min
August 09, 2026Wait...
Nic Acosta notices that with each passing year, we seem to get better and better at optimizing time management and reducing wait time. But what if waiting is a fundamental experience of being human and fertile spiritual soil that we're depriving ourselves of? What if God is offering to meet us in our moments of waiting and inviting us into the riches of living according to divine time? [1 Kings 19:9-18]

Reflection Questions
Are there truths that we might need to say in order to make the experience of waiting for God more bearable?
How can our periods of waiting be opportunities to embrace the silence of God?
How would our waiting be different if we lived according to the fullness of God's time (kairos) instead of the tyranny of the world's time (chronos)?
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30min
July 26, 2026For Such a Moment as This: A Lesson in Impermanence
In honor of Christopher Mack’s last Sunday at Vox, Vanessa Maleare leads us through an exercise in discernment using the story of Esther and the Buddhist teaching of impermanence. [Esther 4:12-17]
Practices:
Listen and notice what/who is around you this week. Release the need for everything to be permanent. Take stock of what your context is. Where are you embedded? What is the need in the world around you?
Listen and notice what is within. What gifts do you have? What power do you have? Be honest and really listen to the answer to this question. Esther thought she had none. But she did in fact have position and beauty on her side which proved to be powerful indeed.
Finally ask yourself: how can I meet the needs of the world around me?
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27min
July 19, 2026Losing and Finding Ourselves in the Work of the People
Christopher Mack shares his final message as a pastor on staff at Vox. He picks up Jesus’ Parable of the Wheat and Weeds to challenge ourselves personally and communally to participate in God’s wholeness. [Matthew 13:24-30]

Reflection Questions
When was a recent ‘aha!’ moment, when you awakened to Divine Presence already-present to your one wild, perplexing, challenging, and beautiful life?
Where are you mercilessly fighting against imperfection, yours and the world’s?
How might you practice giving thanks as a way of getting unstuck from resentment and despair?
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33min
July 12, 2026Is a Nonviolent Future Really Possible?
Gena St. David glimpses in Jesus’ Parable of the Sower, a hope that the nonviolence we see in the life of Jesus can grow “a hundredfold” in our own lives and world–creating ripples larger than we dare dream or imagine. [Matthew 13:18-23]

Reflection Questions
Where are you already practicing nonviolence–and what ripples do you imagine it could create?
Where would you like to become more nonviolent–toward the planet, animals, another person, or yourself?
When you practice nonviolence, how do you feel?
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25min
June 28, 2026Embodying the Work of the People
Each Sunday we begin our liturgy with “welcome to Vox as participants and hosts of our liturgy. Liturgy means the work of the people, and this morning we are all invited to care for and serve one another.” On this Sunday after Pentecost, Christopher Mack considers how we work out this “work of the people” in our being and in relationship to one another in a pace and posture that gives our faith legs for the longhaul. [Genesis 21:7-18; Romans 12:1-8]

Reflection Questions:
Is there a situation in your life where you are invited to separate hating evil from loving a person malformed by that very injustice?
Where might you invite joy to accompany your sorrow?
What is the Work of the People you are being drawn to work out in your own life this week?
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30min
June 14, 2026What Else?
On this Pride Sunday, Amy Wolfgang invites us to consider “What Else..” in uncovering Psalm 100 for how we anchor to our belovedness and receive the message of liberation for which our hearts long. [Psalm 100]

Reflection Questions:
Where can you reclaim your right to make joyful noise this month?
How can you enter the divine conversation with “What Else”?
When you hear the phrase, “You are God’s dream,” what resonates with you, and what resists it?
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27min
May 31, 2026Working Out the Work of the People
We regularly begin our liturgy with “welcome to Vox as participants and hosts of our liturgy. Liturgy means the work of the people, and this morning we are all invited to care for and serve one another.” On this Sunday after Pentecost, Christopher Mack considers how we work out this “work of the people” in our being and in relationship to one another in a pace and posture that gives our faith legs for the longhaul. [Romans 12:9-13]

Reflection Questions:
Is there a situation in your life where you are invited to separate hating evil from loving a person malformed by that very injustice?
Where might you invite joy to accompany your sorrow?
What is the Work of the People you are being drawn to work out in your own life this week?
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33min

FAQs about Vox Veniae Podcast:

How many episodes does Vox Veniae Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 616 episodes available.