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Who is someone who makes you feel safe? On this Good Shepherd Sunday, Kelly Cutbirth leads us through practices that ground us in the goodness of God’s companioning presence. [Psalm 23]
 
Reflection
What familiar advice do you often ignore?
What practices help you find a sense of safety and rest?
How does the Shepherd’s promise of mercy and goodness, even in the midst of life’s challenges and hardships, feel to you?
 
Resources
Book: Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie
Book: What Is God Like? by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Paul Turner

Embodying the Tension of Resurrection
As we consider the significance of an embodied resurrection, what tensions are we invited to carry and embody on our journey of faith? On the third Sunday of Easter, Weylin Lee looks at the challenge and richness of an embodied spirituality. [Luke 24:36-48]
Reflection
How are we invited to live from our vulnerabilities and scars?
How might we embody peace to make room for our full range of emotional responses?
What is our embodied life bearing witness to and what story are we telling?
 
Resources
Book: This Here Flesh:Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Ust by Cole Arthur Riley

Oil and Dew
What are barriers we perpetuate to keep ourselves and others from experiencing belonging? On the second Sunday of Easter, Christopher Mack delves into the very good experience of unity and the messiness that ensues as we work toward it. [Psalm 133:1-3]
 
Reflection
How might you feel delight in your body this week?
Where is an oppositional identity persistent in how you understand and react to the world?
 If in revenge we imitate the one who wronged us, then how might reconciliation be an invitation for you to reflect God?
 
Resources
Book: Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road? by Brian McLaren
Book: The Psalms  by Robert Alter
Poem: Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berryhttps://allpoetry.com/poem/12622463-Manifesto--The-Mad-Farmer-Liberation-Front-by-Wendell-Berry

Gena St. David centers our resurrection hope in our embodied experiences.

Anticipating Someone You Love
What’s in the box? On this Palm Sunday, Vanessa Maleare heightens anticipation about experiencing and participating in life with God. Through the acts of Palm Sunday we see Jesus as the sort of king who came to serve everybody else and who doesn’t like to see even his enemies get hurt. [John 12:12-16]
 
Reflection
When you picture Jesus back in the day what does he look like?
When you picture Jesus in heaven with God what does he look like?
Is Jesus someone you wouldn’t be able to wait to see?

On this fifth Sunday of Lent, Christopher Mack glimpses an Upside Down Glory of God that does not require the renouncing of our Divine Image.