Stories tagged:
Poor

Welcoming Discomfort

During this season of Lent, Weylin Lee reflects on how we are invited to welcome discomfort as we reflect on Jesus’ journey towards death [John 12:1-11]. Reflection How are you invited into the vulnerability of practicing or receiving extravagant love? What is your invitation to practice sabbatical year rhythms that center around the poor? Practice Be vulnerable in extravagant love. […]

When God Leans Towards Us

Gena St. David reflects on how God is leaning toward the ones in need and suffering rather than the powerful [Luke 6:20-22]. Reflection What mistaken notions of God might we have inherited? Who are we being called to lean toward? What does a Christ-like response to violence look like? Resources Book: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass