How are we wired by what we’ve experienced? And how do we understand that wiring? In this message, Corey Magstadt explores the ways trauma wires our brains and therefore our lives. Corey helps us reframe that wiring, so we can be grateful that our bodies kept us safe the best way they knew how. Now…
What does faithfulness look like and who gets to decide? This week, our friend Ricky Grant Jr. joins us to continue our Wired series. Ricky is a former church planter and doctoral researcher exploring how organizations, including faith communities, can better welcome people with executive function variability: the many different ways our minds plan, focus,…
What if the minds we’ve been taught to call “different” are exactly how God intended to show up in the world? Dr. Gary F. Green II, professor at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, joined us to reframe neurodiversity not as a deficit to be managed but as neuro-brilliance to be celebrated. He invited…
In this message, Pastor T. C. introduces the teaching series, ICON: Portals into the Heart of Jesus by exploring how contemplation of Jesus through contemplative practices like Visio Divina restore the image of God in us. As II Corinthians 3:17–18 says, Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,…
In this message Pastor T. C. explores the way we locate ourselves ethnically, racially, and relative to others in society. In Acts 21, Paul attempts to navigate what Dr. Willie James Jennings calls the “diaspora anxiety” of the Jerusalem elders. But it fails spectacularly. We need a better way.