Zao Church Collective

On Palm/Protest Sunday, how do we join Jesus in gathering people power to stand up against the violence of empire?

When we allow our attention to be scattered and commodified, we find ourselves investing our time, energy, and even worship on things we didn't choose. How do we lay down the idols we've created as a culture, and cultivate and attentive intention where we choose what we love instead of being lured into someone else's attention trap?

In a world where numbing out sometimes feels like the only way of getting by, what does it mean to be fully alive? Spend the next 40 days of Lent with the Zao community fasting from distraction, dissociation, and detachment, and moving into a faith of intention, embodiement, and devotion.

We can't understand the teachings of Jesus without the cross and resurrection. Beyond individual salvation, what does that move from confrontation of empire, to death at the hands of the state, to resurrection in glory teach us about what it means to be free - for all of us to be free?

Jesus knew about scarcity - he was teaching in a desert, after all. But trust, surrender, and abundance were central to his teachings. How can we be open handed with what we've got, trusting that giving it away is the only way we all get what we need?