Episodes

  • The Rev. Eyleen Farmer: The Overview Effect

    The Rev. Eyleen Farmer: The Overview Effect
    May 18 2025
    For most of our history, we Christians have been re-drawing the lines between who’s in and who’s out, between whose beliefs are correct and whose are not. For one group, fundamentalists might be the problem; for another, it’s woke liberals. For yet another, it could be terrorists or immigrants or environmentalists, rich people or poor people, or Muslims or atheists or God knows what else. Our hearts harden, our beliefs solidify, and we reduce God to a tidy formula, and we are on the verge of destroying everything that is beautiful and true and holy.
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    16 mins
  • The Rev. Paul McLain: May 4, 2025

    The Rev. Paul McLain: May 4, 2025
    May 4 2025
    Just as Ananias embraced Saul as family by calling him, ‘Brother Saul,’ Ruthie and I will always think of you as ‘Sister Calvary.’ We are family to each other. You will always be in my and Ruthie’s hearts. And God’s ongoing story of conversion in all our hearts will never end.
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    8 mins
  • The Rev. Scott Walters: April 27, 2025

    The Rev. Scott Walters: April 27, 2025
    Apr 27 2025
    Go be a Thomas. Not Thomas, the cool skeptic of tradition. But Thomas, who knows that an incarnate relationship with complicated people is what we’re made for, not membership in a religious club we join by storing beliefs in the attic of our mind, like furniture under bedsheets no one even thinks to sit on anymore.
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    13 mins
  • The Rev. Scott Walters: Easter Day

    The Rev. Scott Walters: Easter Day
    Apr 20 2025
    Let the women at the tomb be our guides back into a love that’s at work in our lives still, right now, right here. Today.
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    12 mins
  • The Rev. Katherine Bush: The Great Vigil of Easter

    The Rev. Katherine Bush: The Great Vigil of Easter
    Apr 19 2025
    I feel a kinship with the women in this kind of moment, in which the story is still unfurling. And I am grateful and profoundly moved by their witness, their belief, with only the barest bit of news to go on.
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    10 mins
  • The Rev. Scott Walters: Good Friday 2025

    The Rev. Scott Walters: Good Friday 2025
    Apr 18 2025
    So say the prayers, whether it feels like anyone’s listening or not. Jesus did. Say the prayers, if only to remember that you’re not the only one whose ever felt like everything that matters is unsolved in their heart. Say the prayers as a way to be still, expand your soul to hold a little more life and hurt and, maybe even to pass back into this world something a little less like violence, and a little more like love.
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    10 mins
  • The Rev. Paul McLain: Maundy Thursday 2025

    The Rev. Paul McLain: Maundy Thursday 2025
    Apr 17 2025
    When Jesus stood up and wrapped a towel around himself, in essence he taught them, ‘Do not be afraid to stoop down and offer the most humble service imaginable to one another. It is no more than I have done for you.’
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    9 mins
  • Pádraig Ó Tuama: April 11, 2025

    Pádraig Ó Tuama: April 11, 2025
    Apr 11 2025
    Ó Tuama’s interests lie in language, violence, and religion. Growing up in a place with a long history of all three (Ireland, yes, but also Europe), he finds that language might be the most redeeming. In language, there is the possibility of vulnerability, of surprise, of the creative movement towards something as yet unseen. Any artist of words inspires him: from Krista Tippett to Lucille Clifton, Patrick Kavanagh to Emily Dickinson, Lorna Goodison to Arundhati Roy. Ó Tuama loves words — words that open up the mind, the heart, the life. For instance — poem: a created thing.
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    18 mins