Between Sundays

As we move further from Christmas, how do we hold onto peace? Abby shares a helpful illustration! Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to receive each new reflection throughout the 12 Days of Christmas and to receive our weekly Between Sundays in the new year!  Listen on the BLC website at blcfairport.org/between-sundays . Help us spread the word by liking, commenting and sharing!

With hundreds of scripture passages referring to "peace," Abby and Amy reflect on a few of their favorites.  Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to receive each new reflection throughout the 12 Days of Christmas and to receive our weekly Between Sundays in the new year!  Listen on the BLC website at blcfairport.org/between-sundays . Help us spread the word by liking, commenting and sh...

Seeking peace looks different for everyone. Pastor Amy shares a favorite poem for this time of year - Christmas Light by May Sarton . Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to receive each new reflection throughout the 12 Days of Christmas and to receive our weekly Between Sundays in the new year!  Listen on the BLC website at blcfairport.org/between-sundays . Help us spread the word by liking, co...

Christmas can bring a change in routine which invites into the holy work of noticing.  Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to receive each new reflection throughout the 12 Days of Christmas and to receive our weekly Between Sundays in the new year!  Listen on the BLC website at blcfairport.org/between-sundays . Help us spread the word by liking, commenting and sharing!

As we celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace, Abby and Amy reflect on where peace is being born today. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to receive each new reflection throughout the 12 Days of Christmas and to receive our weekly Between Sundays in the new year!  Listen on the BLC website at blcfairport.org/between-sundays . Help us spread the word by liking, commenting and sharing!

Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to receive each new reflection throughout the 12 Days of Christmas and to receive our weekly Between Sundays in the new year!  Listen on the BLC website at blcfairport.org/between-sundays . Help us spread the word by liking, commenting and sharing!

Abby and Amy talk about what they have been doing and reading in these days leading up to Christmas and the ways that we're connected, or not, to the world around us. All Creation Waits by Gayle Boss can be obtained through your favorite bookseller and is also available in a Children's Edition. 

Abby and Amy talk about the expectations that surround this time of year and the faithful ways we can extend hospitality and welcome to others while still being focused on Jesus. 

Abby and Amy reflect on the ways that the faith they share welcomes questions more than answers and how conversation with others is one way we can wrestle with living out our values. 

Abby and Amy talk gratitude and grace on this special Thanksgiving episode! 

Abby and Amy talk about Thanksgiving memories and traditions and the ways we mark these days.

Making connections with people is not something that comes naturally to most of us. Abby and Amy talk about seeing and responding to the humanity of the people around us and the act of beholding others. Here's the link to the Kate Bowsler podcast Abby mentions.

Abby and Amy talk about routines and rituals and traditions - and what happens when those are interrupted! We return to our grounding and try to cultivate a life that helps those we encounter know they matter - to us and to God

What communities draw you in? Abby and Amy share why church is a community that draws them both in for different reasons. 

Abby and Amy wrestle with how to respond to the atrocities of war. What does it look like to put on love when the world is torn apart?

More and more our communities look like enclaves of people who think exactly the way we do. Our world continues to reveal the danger of this practice, because when our communities mirror us, it's easy to lose sight of our shared humanity. If you're interested in going deeper into the writings referenced by Abby and Amy, view Monica Guzman's book or Kristin Johnson Largen's blog...

Scripture gives us beautiful words to describe community and encourages us to embrace love and forgiveness as we practice being in relationship with one another, but what does that look like in the nitty gritty of everyday life? Abby and Amy talk about what having the "mind of Christ" means when it comes to birthday cakes! How do the actions and attitudes of Jesus shape your life between...

Abby and Amy talk about writing and receiving the words as others as a way of being sustained in and sharing faith.

For our 99th(!) episode we're introducing something new. Listen to the plans we have in place for connecting with you!

In our previous episode, we heard how love is the foundation of our life together and in this episode, Amy reminds us that the practice of forgiveness keeps our foundation solid and in good repair so that our lives remain grounded in Christ.  Matthew 18:21-35

 Building Lasting Community that follows Jesus (which is what BLC is all about!) means being together in Christ. We are bound together in love - God's love for us and love shared with each other - so that wherever we are and whatever we do, we are together in Christ.    Receive this blessing for your week: Beloved child of God, you bring beauty to the world by being you. When you join togethe...

"Who do you say that I am?" Jesus asks his disciples. Simon Peter boldly responds, "You are the Messiah, Son of the living God." This is not merely a comment about Jesus but a confession rooted in his own experience of Jesus. Peter's confession serves as the foundation for the whole church. Together, by the grace of God and through the witness of one another, we come to kn...

In this episode, Amy shares the words of a song by Kenyatta Emmanuel. You can view a performance of Emmanuel performing Holding Out Hope at Carnegie Hall. Today's reading tells the story of a woman holding out hope for her daughter. Her story is the story of all who at some point in life are "othered" by those in positions of authority. The good news of Jesus reminds us that God&apo...

In this episode we encounter a familiar story, though one that is strange to our modern minds -- the story of Jesus walking on water . Amy reminds us today that a story that seems straightforward on the surface is filled with poetic nuance that is not always evident upon first hearing. In this story we are reminded that Jesus never stops moving towards the ones he loves, including you. Matthew 14:...

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 Jesus is still teaching in parables. In today's episode Amy reflects on some of her experiences of teaching in Egypt over many years and focuses on the parable that describes the kingdom of heaven like a treasure hidden in a field. Asking what we'd sacrifice for such a treasure misses Jesus' point. Realizing that we are the treasure for which Jesus' sacr...