We come back to this church year in and year out, Sunday after Sunday, to return to the story of God’s relentless love. We come here to remember that all the stories our world wants to hand us, stories that we are not enough, that we don’t have enough, all those stories will fade away.
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God Asks Us to Choose Hope over Despair
Authentic faith doesn’t ask you to smile and pretend everything is okay when it’s not.
Joseph, Jacob, and Extravagant Love
If Joseph was alive today, might Joseph identify as gay, or bi, or trans or queer? What if young Joseph asked Jacob for a princess dress? And what if Jacob said yes? What if Jacob responded with affirming and lavish love?
Wrestling with God
Holy Communion UCity · The Rev. Mike Angell: Wrestling With God Here’s a thesis: the Bible’s endurance comes from its mystery. These Genesis stories were told for hundreds of years before every being written down. The stories are probably close to three thousand years old. They were campfire tales, told and refined by storytellers longContinue reading “Wrestling with God”