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Walter Brueggemann

I lift my eyes to the hills

Jeff Chu wears several hats, including writer, reporter, and editor. He's also the co curator and co-host with Sarah Bessie of Evolving Faith. He's an occasional preacher. Some days, Jeff says he believes in God. Other days, he wants to believe in God.

Let’s revisit Chu’s talk from our 2022 Enfleshing Witness gathering.

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Ministry, Commentary, Lectionary, Personal Reflection Rev. Ranjit Mathews Ministry, Commentary, Lectionary, Personal Reflection Rev. Ranjit Mathews

Tethered Away From God

The Reverend Ranjit Mathews preaches because God has called him to prophetic and embodied witness to those with ears to hear. His vocation is to love extravagantly, and to invite the shedding from systems of white supremacy, purity culture, patriarchy, and the gospel of production. Let’s revisit his talk from our 2021 Enfleshing Witness gathering.

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Ministry, Commentary, Lectionary, Personal Reflection Dr. Christine Hong Ministry, Commentary, Lectionary, Personal Reflection Dr. Christine Hong

Your Words Will Become Seeds

Dr. Christine Hong usually mostly writes and teaches, instead of preaches, as a seminary professor. But after her writing and teaching slips into sermon mode, and she's mostly sorry about it, Christine mostly teaches and preaches to seminary students and their loved ones at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. Christine preaches among an amazing group of colleagues and friends with the spirits of her ancestors.

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Ministry, Commentary, Personal Reflection Ryan Panzer Ministry, Commentary, Personal Reflection Ryan Panzer

Cultivating Leaders for a Digital Age

Recently, AI tools have given us the capacity to work with greater efficiency, to communicate with increased ease, to create digital content, and to give our communities the tools to tell their faith stories.  But just as important as improving or increasing our adoption of technologies is the church’s call to cultivate leadership for an accelerating world.

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Ministry, Commentary, Personal Reflection Kris Bjorke Ministry, Commentary, Personal Reflection Kris Bjorke

Liminal Spaces

Theologians and practitioners have used the word “liminal space” or “liminal time” to describe these experiences. They are the point at which you become aware that a transition is about to occur. Liminal literally means, “threshold”. Think of walking through a doorway and going through/over a threshold. You are neither in one room nor the other; you are in-between. However you can see both, one behind and in front.

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Ministry, Commentary, Lectionary, Preaching, Personal Reflection Bishop Michael Curry Ministry, Commentary, Lectionary, Preaching, Personal Reflection Bishop Michael Curry

Bishop Michael Curry’s Christmas Message

The message of the angel is as scandalous and striking now as it was then. For in it is embedded God’s message in the death and resurrection of Jesus: to trust and believe in the invincibility of the good in spite of the titanic reality of evil, because God is good all the time.

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Planting Gardens of Belonging

The task at hand for young people of faith is to draw from our traditions to steward this change—this social transformation—towards the redemptive possibilities of loving exceedingly, seeking justice, practicing hospitality, and giving generously. In doing so, we might reimagine and create anew the means through which our communities join together across differences.

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