"You don't have to be 'out there' to be lost. Lost-ness is part of a life of faith. It happens to everyone."

"Jesus wants us to know that discipleship is hard, that it has a cost. But, importantly, discipleship is available to EVERYONE."

"And yet, despite knowing how all these prophets will respond God keeps calling them. God continues to call people who not only have a deep love for God, but also who have a strong, healthy sense of humility, because none of us can do anything ...

"We are participants in God's world and we are participants in making it right. Making a world in which everyone is valued, has what they need for thriving, not just a few, not even several, but all."

"In the story of our scriptures we can see a religious community grappling with itself, with current events, and with how it wants to respond in faithfulness to God."

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"We teach this prayer to our kids, stitch it onto pillows, and whisper it to ourselves in troubling times. But do we really appreciate what we're asking for when we pray it? This prayer is a gift of comfort as many prayers we know by heart are....

"Mary and Martha were women to be reckoned with. And the way this gospel story unfolds, we the readers seem to be forced to pit these two formidable women at odds with each other...but when we read it carefully, the text does not support this d...

"Over and over in Luke, Jesus shows us that the way we live into a right relationship with God – the way we justify ourselves, as the lawyer says – is by how we live into a right relationship with, and how we treat our neighbor."

"This peace that the apostles practice is a way of being. It's an attitude of hospitality that yearns for but does not expect or necessitate reciprocation."

"As Christians, we are called to have concern and care for everyone who has ever felt excluded - like an outsider - because Jesus had concern and care for everyone - especially the excluded and the outsider."

"Bridging stories are about the ways in which we turn towards one another...It's a radical kind of listening. It's a listening that refuses to be a part of breaking apart." 

Pentecost Sunday"The question here isn't about how languages are a punishment or a gift, the question is about how we understand our sense of being, our sense of belonging and what truly unifies us."

"A more complex understanding of prayer, a more nuanced understanding of a relationship with God believes that prayer changes us, not God. Prayer is not a technique for getting things from God but for strengthening our relationship with God."

"Love in the way that Jesus intends for is not just a magical supply of kindness and benevolence, but instead it's the power to respond to the hatred of our neighbors with words and actions - the kind of words and actions that call them to be t...

"This can be the way of faith, can't it? Our God has never been crystal clear and mystery free... and that can be uncomfortable."

Youth Sunday 

Easter Sunday sermon

The Passion Narrative, according to Luke

"Grace. it's a short little word... it packs a big theological punch... It's almost impossible for us mere humans to understand... God gives us more of it than we could ever ask or imagine."