Peace | The Podcast

FILM & FAITH This summer at Peace, we will look at a variety of movies – from animated favorites to critical masterpieces to award-winning documentaries. Faith is not something we have in a vacuum. Faith is engaged in the world, in relationship to others, and as a source of meaning and purpose as we discern the good work that God has for us to do. Movies and film often reflect culture. From an...

FILM & FAITH This summer at Peace, we will look at a variety of movies – from animated favorites to critical masterpieces to award-winning documentaries. Faith is not something we have in a vacuum. Faith is engaged in the world, in relationship to others, and as a source of meaning and purpose as we discern the good work that God has for us to do. Movies and film often reflect culture. From an...

FILM & FAITH This summer at Peace, we will look at a variety of movies – from animated favorites to critical masterpieces to award-winning documentaries. Faith is not something we have in a vacuum. Faith is engaged in the world, in relationship to others, and as a source of meaning and purpose as we discern the good work that God has for us to do. Movies and film often reflect culture. From an...

FILM & FAITH This summer at Peace, we will look at a variety of movies – from animated favorites to critical masterpieces to award-winning documentaries. Faith is not something we have in a vacuum. Faith is engaged in the world, in relationship to others, and as a source of meaning and purpose as we discern the good work that God has for us to do. Movies and film often reflect culture. From an...

IN CHRIST | The Letter to the Ephesians The Apostle Paul found himself in prison and wrote a letter to the church in Ephesus. This church and this city was a launching point for Paul's ministry to the Mediterranean world, and this letter is a seminal work that provides a wonderful understanding of Paul's revolutionary theology. As a reformed Pharisee, Paul intimately knows the Hebrew Scriptures. A...

IN CHRIST | The Letter to the Ephesians The Apostle Paul found himself in prison and wrote a letter to the church in Ephesus. This church and this city was a launching point for Paul's ministry to the Mediterranean world, and this letter is a seminal work that provides a wonderful understanding of Paul's revolutionary theology. As a reformed Pharisee, Paul intimately knows the Hebrew Scriptures. A...

IN CHRIST | The Letter to the Ephesians The Apostle Paul found himself in prison and wrote a letter to the church in Ephesus. This church and this city was a launching point for Paul's ministry to the Mediterranean world, and this letter is a seminal work that provides a wonderful understanding of Paul's revolutionary theology. As a reformed Pharisee, Paul intimately knows the Hebrew Scriptures. A...

IN CHRIST | The Letter to the Ephesians The Apostle Paul found himself in prison and wrote a letter to the church in Ephesus. This church and this city was a launching point for Paul's ministry to the Mediterranean world, and this letter is a seminal work that provides a wonderful understanding of Paul's revolutionary theology. As a reformed Pharisee, Paul intimately knows the Hebrew Scriptures. A...

IN CHRIST | The Letter to the Ephesians The Apostle Paul found himself in prison and wrote a letter to the church in Ephesus. This church and this city was a launching point for Paul's ministry to the Mediterranean world, and this letter is a seminal work that provides a wonderful understanding of Paul's revolutionary theology. As a reformed Pharisee, Paul intimately knows the Hebrew Scriptures. A...

IN CHRIST | The Letter to the Ephesians The Apostle Paul found himself in prison and wrote a letter to the church in Ephesus. This church and this city was a launching point for Paul's ministry to the Mediterranean world, and this letter is a seminal work that provides a wonderful understanding of Paul's revolutionary theology. As a reformed Pharisee, Paul intimately knows the Hebrew Scriptures. A...

Christ is Risen | Christ is Risen Indeed! BODIES | Resisting & Insisting The word BODIES is multifaceted. Each one of us is a body. Collectively we comprise a body. Spiritually, we are to 'take eat, this is my body' and we are to be the body of Christ.  A BODY is also what they call you when a name is too dignifying for their hurtful purposes. Cells and cages full of bodies. Not somebodies, ju...

BODIES | Resisting & Insisting The word BODIES is multifaceted. Each one of us is a body. Collectively we comprise a body. Spiritually, we are to 'take eat, this is my body' and we are to be the body of Christ.  A BODY is also what they call you when a name is too dignifying for their hurtful purposes. Cells and cages full of bodies. Not somebodies, just bodies.  Over the course of the next 46...

BODIES | Resisting & Insisting The word BODIES is multifaceted. Each one of us is a body. Collectively we comprise a body. Spiritually, we are to 'take eat, this is my body' and we are to be the body of Christ.  A BODY is also what they call you when a name is too dignifying for their hurtful purposes. Cells and cages full of bodies. Not somebodies, just bodies.  Over the course of the next 46...

BODIES | Resisting & Insisting The word BODIES is multifaceted. Each one of us is a body. Collectively we comprise a body. Spiritually, we are to 'take eat, this is my body' and we are to be the body of Christ.  A BODY is also what they call you when a name is too dignifying for their hurtful purposes. Cells and cages full of bodies. Not somebodies, just bodies.  Over the course of the next 46...

BODIES | Resisting & Insisting The word BODIES is multifaceted. Each one of us is a body. Collectively we comprise a body. Spiritually, we are to 'take eat, this is my body' and we are to be the body of Christ.  A BODY is also what they call you when a name is too dignifying for their hurtful purposes. Cells and cages full of bodies. Not somebodies, just bodies.  Over the course of the next 46...

BODIES | Resisting & Insisting The word BODIES is multifaceted. Each one of us is a body. Collectively we comprise a body. Spiritually, we are to 'take eat, this is my body' and we are to be the body of Christ.  A BODY is also what they call you when a name is too dignifying for their hurtful purposes. Cells and cages full of bodies. Not somebodies, just bodies.  Over the course of the next 46...

The End Is Just The Beginning | BEHOLD: I am doing a new thing Episode 7 of our Winter Series   Because faith traditions go back hundreds and even thousands of years, it’s natural for us to think that when we engage our faith we are trying to go back. Back to a time when the faith was practiced well. Back to a era when more people believed. Back to a season when faith was alive.  We even have phra...

What The World Needs Now | BEHOLD: I am doing a new thing Episode 6 of our Winter Series, with Rev Linda Koelman   Because faith traditions go back hundreds and even thousands of years, it’s natural for us to think that when we engage our faith we are trying to go back. Back to a time when the faith was practiced well. Back to a era when more people believed. Back to a season when faith was alive....

What's In A Name? | BEHOLD: I am doing a new thing Episode 5 of our Winter Series, with Kassidy Rouse   Because faith traditions go back hundreds and even thousands of years, it’s natural for us to think that when we engage our faith we are trying to go back. Back to a time when the faith was practiced well. Back to a era when more people believed. Back to a season when faith was alive.  We even h...

Due to the tragedies and continuing escalation of violence and terror in Minneapolis, caused by the increased presence of federal immigration and border agents, we took a detour from our series.  Amos 5 highlights both the frustration when the power of empire has become corrupt and the hope of God to bring a river of justice. Not a justice that wields a sword, but one that brings life.    _____ Pe...

A Song for the Season | BEHOLD: I am doing a new thing Episode 3 of our Winter Series   Because faith traditions go back hundreds and even thousands of years, it’s natural for us to think that when we engage our faith we are trying to go back. Back to a time when the faith was practiced well. Back to a era when more people believed. Back to a season when faith was alive.  We even have phrases like...

Who Bleeds? | BEHOLD: I am doing a new thing Episode 2 of our Winter Series Because faith traditions go back hundreds and even thousands of years, it’s natural for us to think that when we engage our faith we are trying to go back. Back to a time when the faith was practiced well. Back to a era when more people believed. Back to a season when faith was alive.  We even have phrases like, ‘We need t...

Tribes, Nations, & The Subversive | BEHOLD: I am doing a new thing Episode 1 of our Winter Series   Because faith traditions go back hundreds and even thousands of years, it’s natural for us to think that when we engage our faith we are trying to go back. Back to a time when the faith was practiced well. Back to a era when more people believed. Back to a season when faith was alive.  We even h...

Reverend Linda Koelman tackles one of the most difficult passages in the Bible, the killing of the young babies after the birth of Jesus.  Although heartbreaking and unpopular to talk about, as well as an easy passage to slip into political critique, Rev Linda doesn't shy away from the difficulties presented with this story.  Her humanity and her pastoral heart shine through! __   This podcast is...

Each of the four gospels frames Jesus in a particular way in it's beginning. Some do so with a birth narrative (Matthew and Luke). One does it without a birth narrative (Mark). And one does it with a beginning that is just different (John).  This Advent and Christmas season we are going to explore those beginnings. Why do the authors of the gospels begin their story the way they do? Why is Jesus p...