The Table Church DC

Sunday, April 2, 2023. 

Sunday, March 26, 2023. Preacher Meg Clark.

Sunday, March 19, 2023

Sunday, March 12, 2023.

Sunday, March 5, 2023. Preacher: Anthony Parrott We kick off our 5-week series on Lamentations during the Lenten season. Pastor Anthony starts us off with an exploration of the historical context of Lamentations, as well as explores why it seems like so many pastors and churches seem to think that having negative feelings isn't okay.

Sunday, February 26, 2023. Preacher: Anthony Parrott. Jesus was not a centrist. He did not command us to not make enemies. We need to be able to name our enmities in order to overcome them.

Sunday, February 19, 2023. 

Sunday, February 12, 2023. This year we're introducing Theology Cafe. We're going to start questioning the default by looking at the wide variety of other ways of constructing our theology. Everyone does theology. Even the statement, "I don't need theology," is a form of theology.  Our plan for 2023 is to every few months take a look at a different lens and experience of theology. Feminist, Asian...

Sunday, February 5, 2023. How do we care for families with kids? How do we care for people without partners or children? And how do children show us the way? Erin Byrne tells us how!

Sunday, January 29, 2023. Have you been told that God must separate Themself from you because of your sin? Or that you needed to hide some significant part of yourself because it was unacceptable to God? That breaks attachment, and makes us feel like we must always be worried if our relationship with God is "good." The good news, though, is God's love for us truly is conditional. And that when Jes...

Sunday, January 22, 2023. It's far to easy to intellectualize our faith to the point where we lose all sense of magic or mystery. What it would be like to, like Moses, notice a burning bush and actually turn aside to pay attention to it. And believe that God may turn Their attention to us as well.

Sunday, January 15, 2023. 

Pastor Anthony compares the story of the Magi with 4 key questions from the book "Four Thousand Weeks" by Oliver Burkeman. Where in your life or your work are you currently pursuing comfort, when what's called for is a little discomfort? In what ways have you yet to accept the fact that you are who you are, not the person you think you ought to be? In which areas of life are you still holding back...

Don't confuse maturity with cynicism. 

Pastors Tonetta Landis-Aina and Anthony Parrott discuss the implications of Paul Nixon's book  Multi . We talk a bit about our own experience with multi-spaces, the challenges we've faced, and why we think it's all worth it.  If you want to be part of discussions like these, you can jump-in month-by-month with our Learning Cohort .

Sunday, December 18, 2022

How do we find joy when things seem...joyless? Using the songs of Hannah and Mary, Erin Byrne helps find joy even in the hard places.

Sunday, December 4, 2022, the Second Week of Advent. Pastor Tonetta Landis-Aina. On the second Sunday of Advent, we look at Mark 1:1-8, thinking about peace, dreaming, and preparing the way for the coming of God.

Hope is not just fanciful optimism. It requires us to name what is wrong, to prepare for what is right, and to act to make it happen. Taking a look at Luke 2 and the stories of Anna and Simeon, Meg Clark, sharing her own story of living with depression, explores how to get "ready, set, go" with hope.

Sunday, November 20, 2022. Preacher: Tonetta Landis-Aina

Sunday, November 13, 2022. Preacher: Anthony Parrott. 

Sunday, November 6, 2022. Preacher: Heidi Mills. Heidi teaches us 5 principles of developing shalom in our communities and economics. 

Tonetta thinks about lingering on the porch, Anthony questions the coded language of choosing a school, and they both agree that Anthony's ego needs an adjudgment. This is the first episode in Pastor Tonetta and Pastor Anthony's series talking through the topics of The Table's Learning Cohort. ----more---- Chocolate City Join the Learning Cohort The Scandal of Particularity This Here Flesh

Sunday, October 30, 2022. Preacher: Tonetta Landis-Aina.