Scripture: Joel 2:23-32The prophet Joel speaks a word of transformation and hope. After a swarm of locusts consumes the past, present, and future labors of the people… God promises to plant a new beginning: visions and dreams for the people… past, present, and future. How can we, in all our generations and ages, participate in … Read more
Scripture: Luke 18:1-8, 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5Jesus and the early church pass on encouragement to persist… in prayer, in calling for justice, and in responding to those calls for justice. How does the practice of prayer, even—or even especially—the prayers that we do not immediately sense an answer to shape us for the in-breaking of God’s … Read more
Scripture: Luke 17:11-19Community can often spring up in times of challenge… so Jesus finds 10 lepers who have found a place of belonging. Yet, when they are healed, division springs up again. How can we live into—and offer thanks and praise to God for—communal health that can last in times that are bad… and good?
Scripture: Jeremiah 8:18-9:1The prophet Jeremiah weeps over the desolation of his land and of his people. How can we learn the prophetic role of lament, and even despair, in making room for restoration and new life? As we face a rapidly changing climate and changing ecosystem, how do we face our own grief at what … Read more
Scripture: Luke 15:1-10Jesus tells two parables about things getting lost, and maybe invites us to consider why we put a moral lens on that, and not a communal one. As we seek right relationship with the earth, and face up to the ways in which our living on and use of the earth has had … Read more