Friendsgiving events are pretty common these days, but they didn’t just start with us. Jesus had the equivalent.

Empathy is essential if our gatherings are going be truly healthy and healing.

Sometimes the world is soul-sucking. A good party can revive us and serve as a protest against the bleakness of all the pushes against joy.

God loves a good party. So why have we neglected the spiritual practice of throwing parties?

Sometimes we have too many gatherings to attend, but sometimes we’re isolated and don’t have enough. How do we bless the lonely?

How we view our gatherings says a lot about how we will live our lives. Are they escapes from reality or a deeper dive into the divine itself?

After reimagining what life in this world can look like - and realizing what a wild and unusual dream the kingdom of God is - today we sit with those dreams and with our dream catcher.

The apostle Paul summarizes a dozen ways that we get to live differently than the ways we’ve been taught.

Jesus invites us into a new way of being in the world, and it’s such a gift to all.

Jesus invites to rethink our approach to power, to inclusion, to prestige, and to status - and he often flips the script we’ve inherited.

What kind of hero is Jesus? Is he the macho type that powers-up on others to prove himself? Would that be a ‘sign’ that he’s God? Or is there a different way…

Two sages wrap up our week giving us wisdom for questioning well.

There are different types of questions. Some are meant to display our own intelligence. Some are because we admit we don’t know and we need help. Which kind do you ask more often?

Sometimes we ask hard questions of God, but sometimes we avoid them because they feel too vulnerable, too risky.

Our God delights in questions…. asking so, so many of them of us. Will we return the favor?

Lots of interesting things happen when we ask questions. Today we look at some of them.

Today we do a bit of midrash with the story of Jesus watching the widow offer her coins at the temple.

When we follow our anger down its rabbit hole, we get to learn all sorts of things about ourselves - and then we can choose the way out.

There’s anger that motivates change and inspires working for justice… typically we call this righteous anger.

Anger has consequences. It always does. And when it’s used to destroy, those consequences are despicable.