The Mirror: Beyond the Frame

Scripture: Matthew 22:34-46In the wake of the recent shooting in Maine, we struggle with how to remember what is core to our experience and our purpose, so we return to Jesus’s Greatest Commandment(s). As we seek to more fully love God and love our neighbor as ourselves, how are we also being challenged to love … Read more

The Mirror: Seeing Oneness

Scripture: Philippians 4:1-9Remembering the diversity of leadership of the early church, we are all called to rejoice in gifts and talents that cannot be contained by a binary as we welcome Maine TransNet to share their work with us.

The Mirror: Old Images

Scripture: Philippians 3:4b-14As we look to the image of Christ as a mirror that shows us who we can be, sometimes the hardest challenge is letting go the image of ourselves we had in the past. In a time in which ancient tensions are exploding in new violence, how can we release the past to … Read more

The Mirror: Seeing Clearly in Christ

Scripture: Philippians 2:1-13An ancient hymn in the letter to the Philippians invites us to see in Jesus’s self-giving love a reflection of God’s loving vision of what we are, and what we can be…

A Never-Too-Late God

Scripture: Matthew 20:1-16Jesus tells a parable of workers in a vineyard and wages that strain our understanding of “fairness,” maybe until it breaks and we question how we connect labor and life… and discover God’s justice.