Throughout the month of August, Vox will be seeking donations to help us close our fiscal year 2024/2025 budget gap. Our goal is to raise $35,000 by the end of the month as we look ahead to 2026 and all we want to do and embody in this next chapter of Vox's story. In...
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Resisting Oppression with Repentance
When you encounter systems of oppression do you tend to shrink or fight? Kimberly Culbertson acknowledges the conflicts we encounter all around us and within us, inviting us to creatively resist the destructive violence, and imagine a world in harmony with God’s...
Re-Membering Vox’s Roots
How does re-membering our past shape who we are becoming together in the coming years? Christopher Mack facilitates a panel of Carol Lee, Hannah Friesen, and John Bagwell, longtime members of Vox, as they tell the story of what has made Vox such a special community....
Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2025.01.19
Liturgy A new year has startedOur routines have resumed.Each day we wake up and workWe input dataWe cook mealsWe count the changeWe patch the holesWe mow the yardWe plant the sodWe struggleWe sweatDirt finds its way under our fingernailsSweat stings our eyesOur backs...
Gifted for Mutuality
On the second Sunday after Epiphany, Lilly Ettinger wonders what happens when we look at spiritual gifts less as markers of our individual superiority and more like gifts to further our common good. [1 Corinthians 12:4-11] Where do you find communities of mutuality in...
Being a Blessing
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...
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]...
Who Is Vox? Collective Healing
Do you have fear around showing up in church spaces? Kimberly Culbertson invites us to embody Jesus together by becoming a community of repair and wholeness in our fall series “Who is Vox?” [John 14:18-19, 25-27] Reflection Thank you for being part of my healing....
Who Is Vox? Spiritual Community
What is an indicator of healthy spiritual community? Christopher Mack focuses our fall series “Who is Vox?” on the centrality of community as a rhythm that forms us in the Jesus Way of living, dying, and rising. [John 13:1, 35-38] Reflection What wisdom could we learn...
Who Is Vox? The Body of Christ
Nic Acosta continues our fall series “Who Is Vox?” by connecting us to being the Body of Christ by delving into what it might mean to embrace both our Christian pluralism and our collective imperfection. [Colossians 1:15-23] Reflection What wisdom could we learn if...
