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- Welcome
What helps you feel welcome? Gena St. David gathers us around the table to notice who feels welcome and who is missing. How might a nonviolent practice might help us follow Jesus in being good news to the marginalized while celebrating alongside one another? [Matthew 9:10-13]
Reflection
- Who among us feels least welcome?
- Whose suffering might we relieve?
- How is our story related to our calling?
Resources
- Book: Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters by N.T. Wright
- Film: Chinatown Rising a Harry Chuck and Josh Chuck film
- Book: Love Is My Savior: The Arabic Poems of Rumi translated and edited by Nesreen Akhtarkhavari and Anthony A. Lee
29 min - Returning Home: Beyond Nostalgia
How might we stimulate one another to bring to today, the best of what we can from the past? On this Pentecost Sunday, Christopher Mack ponders how Mother Holy Spirit might animate our nostalgia to empower us in challenging times. [Acts 2:1-8, 12-13]
Reflection
- How might you find a sense of home in some new and unexpected development?
- What might you do this week for the common good?
- Where might the disempowered find empowerment in our community?
Resources
- Book: Seasons of Our Joy: A Modern Guide to Jewish Holidays by Rabbi Arthur Waskow
- Song: Home by Diana Ross [from The Wiz, original film soundtrack)
- Book: An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
- Book: Acts of the Apostles: Wisdom Commentary by Linda M. Maloney and Ivoni Richter Reimer
32 min - The Wisdom of Singing
How does singing sustain us? Gena St. David resonates with the power of songs to help us embody hope in challenging times of adversity and nonviolently resist injustice. [Psalms 68:4-9]
Reflection
- Which song or breath practice might you deepen?
- Where do you desire to feel more free?
- How might song or breath help you decide to wait or move?
Resources
- Book: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
- Song: Mississippi Goddam by Nina Simone
- Song: Hard Times (Come Again No More) by Stephen Foster
27 min - Expressing the Unknown
When have you engaged with someone radically different from yourself? Christopher Mack hears in Paul’s cross-cultural message regarding the unknown god in Athens, a subversive God who topples the status quo and a Peacemaking Christ who is our moral arc and present assurance. [Acts 17:22-31]
Reflection
- How might you notice our idols of scapegoating, isolationism, and violence?
- What might it look like to name the injustices of scapegoating the trans community, our interventions into the politics and economies of Latin America, and lament our dependency on violence, guns, and death?
- How might you express hope in light of the unknown in the coming weeks?
Practices
- Book: Acts: A Theological Commentary on the Bible by Willie James Jennings
- Book: Acts of the Apostles: Wisdom Commentary by Linda M. Maloney and Ivoni Richter Reimer
38 min - Seeing More Deeply
What are some areas that need a deeper look when it comes to how we see Christ, ourselves, and others? Weylin Lee stares afresh at the story of Stephen’s communal execution, and elicits bravery from us to go beyond deconstructing to decolonizing our faith. [Acts 7:55-60]
Reflection
- How are you invited to decolonize your view of Christ and your faith?
- How might you offer a unique voice and story in our collective work of advocacy?
- What does a nonviolent response look like for you in response to someone else’s violence?
Resources
- Podcast: Faith for Normal People, Episode 10, Decolonizing Our Faith by Danyelle Thomas
- Film: Chinatown Rising a Harry Chuck and Josh Chuck film
- Book: The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World by Miroslav Volf
32 min - Good Shepherding
On Good Shepherd Sunday, Kimberly Culbertson points to the story of the man born blind in the Gospel of John as a living example of how Jesus companions us, and how we are to embody community for one another. [John 10:1-6]
Reflection
- Is the person of Jesus shaping your ability to see and be seen?
- Is the person of Jesus shaping your ability to move toward and guide others to abundance?
25 min - Recovery as a Path
What do we do when we’re struggling with addiction in our own life or a loved one’s ? Lilly Ettinger and Joe Arenella bravely share about their own recovery journeys and how they have experienced hope and life, even in the most challenging of circumstances. [Psalm 116:1-6]
Reflection
- What is your cry to the Divine?
- Where might you seek reconciliation in your life?
- How might you take a step toward healing?
Resources
- Book: Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps by Richard Rohr
- Book: Divine Therapy and Addiction: Centering Prayer and the Twelve Steps by Thomas Keating
24 min - What is Forgiveness?
What does forgiveness mean to you? Gena St. David places lived experience of personal and systemic injustice of the church in conversation with the anxious disciples' first encounter with the risen Christ. [John 20:19-23]
Reflection
- When have you feared punishment for telling the truth?
- How might anger become a holy emotion?
- What injustices do we need to grieve more fully prior to forgiving?
Resources
- Book: The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller
25 min - Behold and Beheld
What step of hope might we take together? Christopher Mack retraces the steps of Mary Magdalene through trauma and isolation to renewal and belonging. [John 20:1-18]
Reflection
- What part of your human experience do you need to know God, in Jesus, experiences alongside you?
- How is what you are willing to see impacting how you live?
- What does bearing witness to belonging look like for you this week?
Resources
- Book: Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor
- Book: The Rebirthing of God: Christianity’s Struggle for New Beginnings by John Philip Newell
- Book: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer by Richard Rohr
- Book: Belonging: 5 Keys to Unlock Your Potential as a Disciple by Karoline M. Lewis
32 min - Downward Path of Greatness
How are we invited to resist the desire for power and living out of our ego? This Palm Sunday, Weylin Lee questions what draws us to certain models of greatness rather than eschewing upward mobility as we follow Jesus on a humble path of solidarity with the vulnerable. [Matthew 21:1-11]
Reflection
- How are we invited to resist the desire for power and living out of our ego?
- Who and where are those we need to be in solidary with?
- What does our identity reveal about our authentic calling?
Resources
- Book: The Selfless Way of Christ: Downward Mobility and the Spiritual Life by Henri Nouwen
- Podcast: Lead Us Not by Sojourners
Book: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
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About Vox Veniae Podcast
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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.