How can we create a shared world where God’s love is experienced? On the fourth week of Advent, Vanessa Beltran highlights how moments of shared vulnerability–like Mary’s journey to Elizabeth–are essential to becoming who God created us to be, so we can truly understand God’s blessings. [Luke 1:39-45] Reflection How can you open your heart and life to others in […]
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Joyfully Undone
Is there a part of your life that feels exiled or stuck in a rut? On this third week of Advent, Christopher Mack hears in the message of John the Baptizer, an invitation for our lives to be joyfully undone in the wilderness of waiting. [Luke 3:7-17] Reflection When have you experienced a disruption that led to transformation? How can […]
Navigating Uncertainty
What comes up for you when you think about uncertainty? Weylin Lee begins our season of advent with three markers for wading into waiting and uncertainty: discerning with imagination; recalling God’s gifts; and embodying a path of love. [Psalm 25] Reflection How might we practice discernment with imagination? What are some of God’s gifts that you can recall in this […]
Chords and Metal
How powerful can we be when our one voice is not just one voice? Vanessa Maleare tends to our collective healing with four admonitions inspired from Ecclesiastes: grab your people; conserve energy; grab hold of your joy; and make decisions. [Ecclesiastes 4:9-12] Reflection What are my non-negotiables? Who do I have to have around me? What is true for me […]
Bearing Witness With Whole Lives
What does it look like for you to listen to your whole life? Christopher Mack looks for a way to see God in those who see differently than us and how to experience communal solidarity in uncertain and challenging times. [Psalm 146:2-3, 5-10] Reflection How might we be centered in God’s Peace this week? Where do you find it challenging […]
Who Is Vox? Welcoming Wanderers, Skeptics, and Believers
How do we practice radical welcome? Gena St. David explores how inside each of us exists a wanderer, skeptic, and believer as we conclude our fall series “Who is Vox?” She uses the practice of walking a prayer labyrinth to help us recognize vulnerability, value the winding path, and practice small experiments. [John 3:3-8] Reflection What does the wanderer inside […]
Who Is Vox? Pursuing Justice
What is Vox’s invitation and practice of pursuing justice as a spiritual community that seeks to embody Christ? Weylin Lee considers our hospitality to the vulnerable, embodied presence for solidarity, and nonviolent resistance for flourishing in our fall series “Who is Vox?” [Matthew 5:3-6, 10] Reflection Where are the places we can practice hospitality as an act of justice? What […]