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- Expressing Church
How might our faith community speak about God in a way that is inspired and inspiring? On the fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Kimberly Culbertson reminds us to exhale as we prepare to leave behind our old narratives to embrace the new God is forming among us and through our mutual work. [1 Samuel 16:6-12]
Reflection
- Who do you say that Jesus is?
- How might the Spirit be asking you to see as God sees? What lenses might you need to set down?
- What might God be asking Vox to see, embrace, and become in this season?
Resources
- Book: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
- Book: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
36 min - Forfeiting Our Peculiarity
How can we overcome the adversity of our divided times without losing a radical love for those on the other side? On the third Sunday after Pentecost, Christopher Mack notices parallels between anxieties about political leadership in the time of Samuel and our own. He offers practical tools for how to co-create understanding and connect across differences. [1 Samuel 8:4-9, 19-22 ].
Reflection
- Where might you acknowledge your own understanding as partial and incomplete?
- Have you experienced co-creating understanding with someone?
- What might it look like for you to take one step closer to someone important to you, who you disagree with this week?
Resources
- Book: I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Mónica Guzmán
- Video: Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides by Geoffrey L. Cohen
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shqgkOTeS6U
- Video: How to Understand and Be Understood by Dr. Ruchi Sinha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU7Dg8VP3dA
35 min - God Our Mother
When you hear someone say, “God is not just our father, but also our mother,” what comes up for you? On the third Sunday after Pentecost, Vanessa Maleare walks us through passages throughout scripture, to birth maternal images in our imagination and experience of God [John 3:3-8].
Reflection
- Is there a part of yourself you need to reintegrate for wholeness?
- How can you imagine God as your mother comforting you today?
Resources
Book: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
23 min - Pentecost
What might we need to let go of in order for our community to be reborn? On Pentecost Sunday, Eugene Kim invites us to experience God in each of us, churches as relationships rather than institutions, and to understand our main job as love [Acts 2:1-4]
Reflection
- What do you see and hear of God within you?
- What do you see and hear of God in the people around you?
- What do you see and hear of God in community — the space between us?
Resources
- Article: Letting Go of What We Have Known by Barbara Holmes
- https://cac.org/daily-meditations/letting-go-of-what-we-have-known-2023-05-04/
- Book: The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle
- This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
37 min - The Path Less Traveled
In our journey to move towards flourishing, what are the less traveled paths we’re invited to walk on and through? On this seventh Sunday of Easter, Weylin Lee companions us down a spiritual path that delights in freedom, consents to the Creator, and is revealed over time. [Psalm 1]
Reflection
- Where might you practice delight in the pursuit of liberation and freedom?
- What is a practice of consent that you are sensing in your journey?
- How are you invited to travel a path that the divine is still revealing?
Resources
Book: An Asian American Theology of Liberation by Wong Tian An
29 min - Make Yourselves at Home in Love
What might it mean for you to make a home in God’s Love? On this sixth Sunday of Easter, Christopher Mack wonders what it means for us to make an intimate, safe, and revolutionary home by mirroring Christ’s Love. [John 15:9-16]
Reflection
- In what ways do Jesus’ words meet and stretch you during our divisive, violent, and overwhelming times?
- Are there creative yet practical ways Jesus’ example inspires you to selflessly love your neighbor and enemy?
- What hope or empowerment might come from knowing Jesus shared everything he heard from God?
Resources
Book: Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice: Experiments in Spiritual Transformation by Dallas Willard and Jan Johnson
25 min - Washed Clean
When you think of baptism, what comes to mind? On this fifth Sunday of Easter, Kimberly Culbertson explores the inner commitment, public declaration, and the mystery of baptism in Christian spirituality . [Acts 8:26-38]
Reflection
- Are there areas in your life where you need to practice agency, repentance, or return?
- How does the embodied experience of baptism fit into your story? How might you incorporate kinesthetic rituals into your spiritual practice?
- Where might you need to lean into community for witness, support, or celebration? Where might you step up to provide this kind of community?
Resources
Book: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
43 min - Familiar & True
Who is someone who makes you feel safe? On this Good Shepherd Sunday, Kelly Cutbirth leads us through practices that ground us in the goodness of God’s companioning presence. [Psalm 23]
Reflection
- What familiar advice do you often ignore?
- What practices help you find a sense of safety and rest?
- How does the Shepherd’s promise of mercy and goodness, even in the midst of life’s challenges and hardships, feel to you?
Resources
- Book: Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie
- Book: What Is God Like? by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Paul Turner
24 min - Embodying the The Tension of Resurrection
Embodying the Tension of Resurrection
As we consider the significance of an embodied resurrection, what tensions are we invited to carry and embody on our journey of faith? On the third Sunday of Easter, Weylin Lee looks at the challenge and richness of an embodied spirituality. [Luke 24:36-48]
Reflection
- How are we invited to live from our vulnerabilities and scars?
- How might we embody peace to make room for our full range of emotional responses?
- What is our embodied life bearing witness to and what story are we telling?
Resources
- Book: This Here Flesh:Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Ust by Cole Arthur Riley
28 min - Oil and Dew
Oil and Dew
What are barriers we perpetuate to keep ourselves and others from experiencing belonging? On the second Sunday of Easter, Christopher Mack delves into the very good experience of unity and the messiness that ensues as we work toward it. [Psalm 133:1-3]
Reflection
- How might you feel delight in your body this week?
- Where is an oppositional identity persistent in how you understand and react to the world?
- If in revenge we imitate the one who wronged us, then how might reconciliation be an invitation for you to reflect God?
Resources
- Book: Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road? by Brian McLaren
- Book: The Psalms by Robert Alter
- Poem: Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry
- https://allpoetry.com/poem/12622463-Manifesto--The-Mad-Farmer-Liberation-Front-by-Wendell-Berry
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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…
a benediction each and every week.