Reconciled to God
How can we be freed to love extravagantly and serve joyously?
Read more“People resist change, and can become angry and hostile when faced with the need for it.” — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Listen to a playlist curated by Jeff Lennard, inspired by the May 2022 issue of Messenger.
Are we ready to stop being afraid? Are we ready to run from emptiness and move forward in faith?
It was around that large kitchen table that we knew we belonged. We didn’t have to be good; we didn’t have to be smart; we didn’t have to be anybody but ourselves. It was around that table that we were unconditionally loved.
Compost is made of the scraps—the peels, the browned outer leaves, the discarded grounds. It feels sometimes like my faith is made of scraps, too.
Enjoy music curated by James Deaton, inspired by the April 2022 issue of Messenger.
Bildad insists that we remember the sacred relationship between act and consequence. What happens when that does not go as expected?
The church still perseveres in its witness to the power of nonviolence in a world riven by war.
Listen to music chosen by Russ Otto, inspired by the March 2022 issue of Messenger
“you are capable of the universe; and it is better to flicker than fade”
Poems and music by theopoet Brian Nixon