“Someone shares how when they were young, they felt a comforting presence when her step mother was mean to her and sent her to her bedroom. She says now, looking back, she knows that she can see that it was Christ with her. This presence lifted her out of fear and comforted her from the pain.”
“The Way of Jesus was a threat to the power and empires of the world. Yet, periodically, Jesus’s followers have been tempted to claim that Jesus’s kingdom IS of this world, to claim that Jesus loves the same few people he loves and hates the same people we fear or despise. But Jesus is not about power, but service.”
While not condoning same-sex marriage, the Anglican Church in Ghana does not condone the criminalisation of the LGBTQ+ community. – Justin Welby, in his third statement on the matter in less than a month
Special guest Rachel Ambasing joins discuss Jesus’ conversation with Pontius Pilate from this coming Sunday’s gospel
“My help comes from the Lord,
creator of sunrises and sunsets
wild bears and lap dogs
cherry trees, dogwoods, and dandelions …”
“The Celts approached God with awe, reverence and wonder but also saw God as an essentially human figure intimately involved in all creation and engaged in a dynamic relationship with it. This interweaving of intimacy and mystery embraced the Trinity as a family and each family unit be it family, clan or tribe was seen as an icon of the Trinity.”
Joe explains why acupuncture is better than dentistry. Drew can‘t wait to tell everyone that he actually finished reading an article from The Atlantic. And they begin a BIG conversation about Jesus’ anti-resistance resistance movement.
We catch up on our All Hallows Eve celebrations, we talk church storage before getting into what the catechism has to say about Corporate Worship.
This week, it’s Luci and Jordan on the abolitionist and author, Harriet Beecher Stowe
“So I take a walk. I take a walk, and I notice how blustery and windy it has gotten while I have been huddling inside the house. My ears are cold; so is the tip of my nose. It is cloudy, but soon the sun breaks through, and bronze leaves swirl and leap in the street. I notice little patches of foliage still erupting green into the afternoon light.”