Vox Veniae Podcast Vox Veniae

Christopher Mack reexamines scriptures on God’s justice and judgment through a lens of nonviolent theology and restorative justice.

Gena St. David glimpses the wisdom of nature as shared through life, trees, and rain.

Let’s Not Do This
When you think about your story of faith, is there a season where you felt especially burdened by the teachings and ideas around you? Kimberly Culbertson follows up her October 1st message, “Rethinking Priesthood” with a reminder of three areas, Problematic Sexual Ethic, Religious Responsibility, and Disregard for Self, where we should reconsider how religious leaders have set limitations to reinforce their own power instead of offering mercy to the marginalized. [Matthew 23:1-5]
Reflection
What burden might God be trying to lift from your shoulders this morning?
What burdensome expectation for others might God be calling you to release?
How might you lean into the “rest for your soul” that Jesus promises?

God Loves Every Part
What does a hug from God feel like? On this Fifth Sunday, Vanessa Maleare, leads our entire community, including our younger ones from Greenhouse and Zamyn, in a wonder moment. She reminds us that God loves us holistically, including our being, thoughts, and feelings [Genesis 1:1-5, 26-27, 31]
 
Reflection
Which song or breath practice might you deepen?
Where do you desire to feel more free?
How might song or breath help you decide to wait or move?
Resources
Film: Inside Out by Disney’s Pixar
Poem: Broken Record by Michael Moynahan SJ

Marcus Clarke, Resident Artist at Vesper, enters into a conversation with Weylin Lee exploring how art articulates and forms us along our spiritual journey, and encourages us to see our various callings as part of exercising our God given creativity.

What is Collective Discernment?
How do we create a community of equals that resists becoming a cult of personality… that resists celebrity culture? Gena St. David wraps up our fall series on non-hierarchy by inviting us to recall the wisdom we’ve gained from each of our teaching team’s perspectives and practicing collective discernment by listening deeply to the Spirit, our bodies, and to on another as we navigate community conversations and practices. [Philippians 2:1-2]
 
Reflection
What questions are alive inside me today?
How might I practice listening deeply to the Spirit, my individual body, and others?
Which voices do I tend to elevate above others?