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- Immersed in the Way of Christ
As we begin a new year, how might we discover rhythms and moments of immersing ourselves in the way of Christ? Weylin Lee opens up about how experience and encounter get us unstuck and in step with God’s Radical Love [John 1:35-42]
Reflection
- How might we sit in the tension of the paradox of Christ?
- How can we intentionally make space to listen?
- What ways can we foster community towards transformation?
Resources
- Book: Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems by Wendy K. Smith and Marianne W. Lewis
25 min - The Mystery of God
Speaker Gena St. David uses the phrase "all bodies matter" in today's homily in the context of support and solidarity for the vision and mission of Black Lives Matter https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/. She begins the new year reflecting on Epiphany and how mystery can lead us into goodness, belonging, and beautiful embodiment. [Ephesians 3:5-12]
Reflection
- When have you felt part of a larger body?
Resources
- Visual Art: Myein by Ann Hamilton
- Vox’s Values: Mystery
25 min - Unexpected Joy and Peace
What are we invited to do or change as we consider the unexpected disruption that the first Christmas brought with the birth of a baby? On the eve of Christmas Eve, Weylin Lee leads us in the practice of lectio divina through a reflection over the past year and through the Christmas story [Luke 2:8-15]
Resources
- Book: Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans
23 min - Dreaming of a Just Love
How do we move from our reasonable resolutions to dreaming in league with the Divine? On the fourth week of advent, Christopher Mack opens up about how experience and encounter get us unstuck and in step with God’s Radical Love [Matthew 1:18-25]
Reflection
- How is Jesus being “with us” an anchor through imperfections and surprises this season?
- Is there someone you might respond differently to in light of God’s Love?
- What’s awakened and unsettled in you as you move with God through the certainty of the status quo to the creative unfolding of God’s Just Love?
Resources
- Book: Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor
- Book: Silence: And Other Surprising Invitations of Advent by Enuma Okoro
- Poetry: For a New Beginning By John O’Donohue https://luminaryquotes.com/quote/for-a-new-beginning
31 min - Making Space for the Unexpected
How do you usually respond to something that’s unexpected? On the third week of advent, Weylin Lee invites us to glimpse restoration and healing for ourselves and those around us, even in the most uncomfortable places and seemingly invisible people. [Matthew 11:2-11]
Reflection
- What are the glimpses of restoration around us in the midst of disappointment?
- What are the uncomfortable truths that we’re invited to hear and engage?
- Who are the invisible that we need to acknowledge and advocate for?
Resources
- Invisible: Theology and the Experience of Asian American Women by Grace Ji-Sun Kim
22 min - What Does It Mean to Repent?
How does God relate to us through trust? As we enter the second week of advent, Gena St. David invites us into a wilder waiting in the wilderness, as we reconsider misperceptions of our life and their ramifications. [Matthew 3:1-6]
Reflection
- Who has embodied God’s love for you?
- How has your perception of love changed after being with them?
- What misperceptions about God, love, or ourselves need confessing?
Resources
- The Wisdom of Wilderness: Experiencing the Healing Power of Nature by Gerald May
25 min - Daring Disruption
How might we foster hope among so much grief and cyclical injustice in the world? Christopher Mack begins this season of Advent slowing down to glimpse with the prophet Isaiah, a word that might remake our world. [Isaiah 2:1-5]
Reflection
- What ruts of routine or quicksands of status quo are constraining your life or world?
- How might you move in ways congruent with your openness to hope?
- Is there a place of deadly chaos you are lamenting? How might that be an act of hope?
Resources
- Sometimes by David Whyte https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/08/19/david-whyte-sometimes/
- Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing through Grief by John Claypool
- Rise Up Shepherd: Advent Reflection on the Spirituals by Luke Powery
24 min - Whose Apocalypse Is It Anyway?
How might I endure in the presence of fear without being overcome by it? Christopher Mack looks at an apocalyptic biblical text, and how it invites us to reflect on our own fears, challenges, tragedies, and violence in light of the Jesus Way. [Luke 21:5-8, 10-13, 17-19]
Reflection
- How might the name of Jesus guide and ground you in chaotic and troubling times?
- Where might you be led astray by easy answers, charismatic personalities, shiny spectacles, or a group to scapegoat?
- What is essential about your life that you must not betray in challenging times?
Resources
- Pope Francis Discusses LGBTQ Catholics with James Martin SJ In Private Vatican Audience by Gerard O’Connell
24 min - Recounting Goodness
As we recount God’s goodness, what are the ways we’re invited to embody that goodness for others? Weylin Lee explores how we might embody the goodness of Christ in seasons of disruption and challenge. [Psalm 145: 1-5, 17-21]
Reflection
- In what ways are we invited to participate in restorative justice?
- How might we practice proximity with the most vulnerable?
- What is our work in advocating for the liberation of those who are marginalized?
Resources
- Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation by LaTasha Morrison
- The Power of Proximity: Moving Beyond Awareness to Action by Michelle Ferrigno Warren
- This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
26 min - Embodying an Ecology of Participation
What is our connection to the environment, our faith, one another, and our bodies? Christopher Mack closes our series on participation by leaning into our call “to care for and serve the earth we belong to.” [Romans 8:19-23; 12:18]
Reflection
- Where do you see creation groaning for renewal?
- How does the lament of creation show up in you?
- How might right-sizedness toward creation invite hopeful participation?
Resources
- Dr. Robert Bullard: Father of Environmental Justice
- Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth by Randy Woodley
- Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Vox Veniae’s Values
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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.