Brandon Kinder continues our fall vision series, Tethered to Belonging: A Theology for Wanderers, Skeptics, and Believers, by exploring our relationship with Scripture through Psalm 1. Drawing on poetry, ancient Christian wisdom, and a personal story about music and...
Vanessa Maleare launches our fall vision series, Tethered to Belonging: A Theology for Wanderers, Skeptics and Believers, with a reflection on unity in diversity. Drawing from Philippians 2:1–8, she invites us to consider how humility, shared love, and care for one...
Lynn Osgood continues her series, God in Ordinary Places, and walks us through Jesus' parable of the tenants, a story set in an ordinary workplace, where everything the tenants fight to keep was built with care before they ever arrived. In this text, we can ask...
Vanessa Maleare leads us through a study of magical objects, Moses’s staff, and the movement from destruction to provision. In Exodus, the same staff once used to turn the Nile to blood becomes a tool for bringing life-giving water from the rock. What might this...
Lilly Ettinger explores Jonah alongside the prophetic tradition of bringing anger, disappointment, and protest directly to God. What if complaint isn’t a failure of faith, but part of a faithful relationship with God? Lilly considers how making room for honest...
Eric Robinson notices that many of us have suffered heartbreak in our journey with God and the church, and asks how might this be an invitation to open us to living in a new reality? Reflection Questions: 1. When are the times your heart has been broken in your faith...
Lynn Osgood walks us through Luke’s story of the road to Emmaus where the risen Christ is present long before the disciples recognize him. This sermon opens a new series, God in Ordinary Places, by asking what might change if we looked at the world around us in the...
Catherine Johnson reframes Jesus’ invitation to “lose your life” not as self-erasure, but as a release from the survival strategies we cling to for safety. Jesus models another way: to live from our deepest values even in the presence of fear and loss—to love what is...
With a new school year and new expectations approaching this fall, Lilly Ettinger notices that it can be easy to feel overwhelmed and on our own. God reminds us that we are not isolated human beings, but part of a community that helps us not to conform to...
Vanessa Maleare Interviews Dr. Lynn Osgood, Vox’s new Scholar in Residence, as she explores our sense of calling through the theology of placemaking, asking how the physical places we inhabit shape us, and how our calling shapes those places in return. Reflection...