Shame-free spaces are precious - and crucial for us to grow.

Sometimes it’s helpful to let our holy imagination roam free in order to bring us back to God in the midst of our challenges.

God’s power is not alway - and perhaps not primarily - the raw power to accomplish things. It’s also the gentle power to transform.

Today we hear from faith leaders ancient and contemporary about what it means to rest.

Part of God’s plan for the Sabbath was that the Beloved Community would do it’s best to make it possible for those most at risk to be able to rest as well.

Psalm 92 was written specifically to be sung on the Sabbath as a vision of rest and flourishing.

The Sabbath is not just for middle class people to kick up their feet. It was originally designed for day laborers and even animals to be able to rest.

In this revolutionary passage, God upends the status quo by welcoming immigrants and sexual minorities into the very heart of sacred space and time.

Today we get to reflect on a poem about exhaustion… and hear it’s gentle invitation to rest.

We look at the outside. Jesus basically ignores it and goes straight for the heart every time.

Purity tends to be about getting things right. Holiness, in it’s healthiest form, is primarily about relationship. Which is easier for you?

A simple prayer for Sundays… and for just about any day.

God shows us early on that setting limits is a gift, and the Spirit invites us to imitate that way of being.

Today we reflect on the gift of rest and how one of the great Jewish rabbis thought about sabbath.

The idea of a whole 24 hours off each week is pretty foreign in the modern world - but perhaps it’s just the gift we really need to rest deeply.

Spiritual surrender has at times been placed at odds with working for justice - as if they aren’t the flip side of the same coin. Today we hear from Howard Thurman on this…

Not all time is created equal. Some time is more sacred than other time.

So often our anxiety causes us to run faster, to keep on moving, trying in vain to get everything fixed. And yet the invitation to rest awaits us…