Most of us were taught that those of different spiritual paths/religions were in some ways our enemies. But what if God sees that differently? Would you be willing to see different religions in a new light?

This week we’ve thought and prayed about our disappointments in God. How does God handle it when we’re disappointed?

God will disappoint us. (Sorry to break the news to you). So what do we do when that happens?

The original picture of sin in the Bible shows how turning away from God is essentially the same thing as turning away from our truest selves.

One helpful way to look at ‘running from God’ is to think about the ways we disintegrate ourselves. There are many places where this lines up both with scripture and with our lived experience.

Do you know what are the key reasons that you run away from God? If we don’t know why we run away from God, it’s awful hard to start running TOWARDS God.

Sometimes to tell our story we need to flip through the pages of our lives and pay closer attention to the moments when God breaks in…

There’s plenty of sadness in our stories, and we need to honor it by naming it and not hiding it. And there’s also joy and abundance - and we can’t lose sight of it just because there’s sadness as well.

The section of Psalm 107 we look at today is all about taking risks - and about what happens when we’ve reached our own limits.

Sometimes we think of those passages that talk about our sin as inherently shaming. But Dottie Oleson’s devotional today takes a different perspective.

This week we look at the different reception stories in Psalm 107 in anticipation of our Fall looking at our own stories in light of the story of Jonah.

Jesus keeps calling us back to the Imago Dei - the image of God in us. He calls us to become who we already are.

Jesus adapts the Greatest Commandment to his situation. Could we do the same?

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.