Why is it different here? What is so different about Martha that her “ministry” becomes “tasks” and “meal prep”? It is curious, indeed.

Each week, we’ll offer a curated selection of blog posts that speak to the upcoming lectionary texts to help spark your imagination and serve as a thought partner for you. We hope these musings meet you right where you are with a fresh, bold, and faithful witness. 

The Sunday Scaries—the creeping dread that arrives as the weekend slips away and the responsibilities of the new week inch closer—aren’t just cultural noise. They reflect something deeper: our desire to be in control of our lives, to meet expectations, and to stay ahead of what’s next. But into this anxious reality, the Gospel speaks a quiet and disruptive word of grace.

Each week, we’ll offer a curated selection of blog posts that speak to the upcoming lectionary texts to help spark your imagination and serve as a thought partner for you. We hope these musings meet you right where you are with a fresh, bold, and faithful witness. 

Each week, we’ll offer a curated selection of blog posts that speak to the upcoming lectionary texts to help spark your imagination and serve as a thought partner for you. We hope these musings meet you right where you are with a fresh, bold, and faithful witness. 

How am I able to live this way? Because I know God is my strength and song.

Sometimes we all need to have space to be sad or angry, or unable to express ourselves. When you have dementia this becomes more difficult to direct... Here is where we can introduce scripture for those who are struggling to communicate. 

America’s thoroughly documented decline in religiosity appears to have hit a plateau. What does this mean for churches?

Agape—the radical, unconditional love taught by Jesus—is not merely an abstract virtue; it is a call to sacrifice the ego and accept reality as it is, so that we may love not only those who love us but also our enemies.

St. Thomas, who converted from doubt to belief when the resurrected Christ physically appeared to him, has undergone something of a conversion in the last two to three decades.

Will AI take your job? It’s more likely to take your job satisfaction, especially if you are a church leader - lay or ordained, staff or non-staff.

In this post, we’re going to redefine online church community—beyond the tweet.

Moreso than any other community or institution, the church is uniquely situated to help communities navigate a year of uncertainty. And yet we must recognize that our culture is not one that is accustomed to uncertainty

Today I would argue that our current cultural understanding of Christmas isn't as a time of excess but as a time of fervor.

...it’s so critical for church leaders and preachers to learn to work alongside AI with equal levels of interest and skepticism...

Revelation was intended to give hope to a people going through impossible chaos. And God’s vision at the end of Revelation, the last word, so to speak, is incredibly hopeful. We need that now.

When we step into the pulpit, we hope that the people will hear what we want them to hear, that they might be changed like we have been changed.

In a world that wants to criticize and categorize and commodify everything we do, time and space to create for its own sake is a sacred revolution.

"It takes all of us to showcase the rhythms and pitches of our various spiritual geographies, so that we might overhear the Spirit singing through new songs and fresh visions."

The Rev. Winnie Varghese delivers a sermon covering indigeneity, Elijah's sojourn in the wilderness, and how to connect with those who show us hospitality.