That's What She Said

Cultivation of spiritual gifts for the life of our church and community. “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few,” Jesus says, and it feels true today, too. What does it take to be part of a DIY church? What’s the difference in a consumer-client culture and citizenship in a communi...

Participation in the church’s discernment for our next steps together. There are so many decisions to be made when we are confronted with Jesus’s presence and power. Who is he? Can he really do what he says he can do? Whose side is he on, anyway? And in contemporary life: what does he intend f...

Extension of the church’s welcome to friends, neighbors, strangers, and enemies. Two stories of invitation: the friends who bring a paralytic to Jesus’s feet, and Jesus calling Matthew to come along. None of us comes to faith alone; our discipleship journey is the opposite of the U.S. American...

Sharing of material resources to further the church’s goals. Jesus has a way of commandeering resources for his own use – that boat, e.g., and those swine – probably because he has so little of his own (“Foxes have holes... but the Son of Man has nowhere...”). In what sense have our own resour...