Pastor T. C. continues the Roots teaching series, “The Church as Forged Family” with a message on Psalm 68.4-6 which praises God for being a “father to the fatherless, a defender of widows” and for “setting the lonely in families.” This is a theme that is at the heart of what it means to be…
In the first story of the Campfire series, Pastor T. C. walks through Jonah with grown-up eyes. Rather than being about the disobedience of a particular prophet long ago, Jonah is a satirical story that teaches the people of God about God’s character, particularly as it relates to God’s mercy towards people caught up in…
In this message, author and minister, Jerusalem Greer, shares how she discovered the connections between creation care, incarnational theology, and racial justice through the hashtag “Black Farmers.”
In John 12, Jesus reflects on the meaning of his death on the cross. His crucifixion exposes the unjust and corrupt way the world is ordered. Systemic evils like racism and misogyny are forms of Scapegoating carried out by the principalities and powers. Jesus disarms the powers by defeating their greatest weapon: the fear of…
Jesus’s temple protest reveals God’s heart for the oppressed and Jesus’s critical eye toward structures in society that exploit the poor. This passage challenges those of us who are more inclined to avoid conflict to speak truth to power. But it’s important to note that Jesus’s table-flipping isn’t for “both sides”—all tables are not the…