Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Planning and Deadlines
This is what Jesus is asking. This is what it looks like to fast from planning and deadlines. Jesus is asking us to let go, to take a beat, to open our hands filled with chess pieces, and to repent from our need to plan our way to our desired end because God has something better in store.
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Scarcity Anxiety
The only reason I jumped into the pool as a kid was because my Aunt Laura was there with arms open, ready to catch me.
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Multitasking and Inattention
If you've ever scrolled Instagram at a stoplight, played Royal Match in class, browsed the headlines at the dinner table, checked your email during a Zoom call, or made your grocery list during a sermon, this is for you.
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Consumption
Do we each really need our own lawnmowers?
Wonder
“Earth’s crammed with heaven,” the poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, wrote. “And every common bush afire with God. But only he who sees takes off his shoes…”
From Generation to Generation: We Can Choose a Better Way
But think of those moments in your own life that take your breath away. That restore your faith in humanity, however briefly—as if it’s nothing… as if it isn’t everything.
Ask Us Anything 4: What the hell?
It becomes clear that heaven has everything to do with moving toward God’s desire for wholeness and the restoration of all creation, and hell has everything to do with resisting that.
Ask Us Anything 3: What does the Bible say about LGBTQ+?
The truth I see in the Bible’s big picture that God is love and that out of love, Jesus lives, dies, and lives again with arms outstretched in an expansive embrace of all, is part of what leads me to a place of inclusion.
Ask Us Anything 2: What's the point of prayer?
“Alexa, re-order paper towels” is not too far away from “God, let me do well on this test.” “Siri, play the Encanto soundtrack on Spotify” isn’t too far removed from “God, help me get this job.”
Ask Us Anything 1: What are we talking about when we talk about Trinity?
Are Christ and the Holy Spirit the same reality? Or does the name Christ encompass all that is Spirit embodied or materialized?
