Vox Veniae Podcast Vox Veniae

How might our faith community speak about God in a way that is inspired and inspiring?  On the fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Kimberly Culbertson reminds us to exhale as we prepare to leave behind our old narratives to embrace the new God is forming among us and through our mutual work. [1 Samuel 16:6-12]
 
Reflection
Who do you say that Jesus is? 
How might the Spirit be asking you to see as God sees? What lenses might you need to set down?
What might God be asking Vox to see, embrace, and become in this season?
Resources
Book: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
Book: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley

Christopher Mack notices parallels between anxieties about political leadership in the time of Samuel and our own.

When you hear someone say, “God is not just our father, but also our mother,” what comes up for you? On the third Sunday after Pentecost, Vanessa Maleare walks us through passages throughout scripture, to birth maternal images in our imagination and experience of God [John 3:3-8].
 
Reflection
Is there a part of yourself you need to reintegrate for wholeness?
How can you imagine God as your mother comforting you today?
 
Resources
Book: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley

What might we need to let go of in order for our community to be reborn? On Pentecost Sunday, Eugene Kim invites us to experience God in each of us, churches as relationships rather than institutions, and to understand our main job as love  [Acts 2:1-4]
 
Reflection
What do you see and hear of God within you?
What do you see and hear of God in the people around you?
What do you see and hear of God in community — the space between us?
Resources
Article: Letting Go of What We Have Known by Barbara Holmeshttps://cac.org/daily-meditations/letting-go-of-what-we-have-known-2023-05-04/ 

Book: The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley

In our journey to move towards flourishing, what are the less traveled paths we’re invited to walk on and through? On this seventh Sunday of Easter, Weylin Lee companions us down a spiritual path that delights in freedom, consents to the Creator, and is revealed over time.  [Psalm 1]
 
Reflection
Where might you practice delight in the pursuit of liberation and freedom?
What is a practice of consent that you are sensing in your journey?
How are you invited to travel a path that the divine is still revealing?
Resources
Book: An Asian American Theology of Liberation by Wong Tian An

On this sixth Sunday of Easter, Christopher Mack wonders what it means for us to make an intimate, safe, and revolutionary home by mirroring Christ’s Love.