by Matisse Peppet, February 26, 2026
This Lent (February 18-April 4), we are following A Sanctified Art‘s “Tell Me Something Good,” in our worship and Church School. We’re looking at what was central to Jesus’ life and ministry: radical welcome, love for neighbors, care for the vulnerable, nourishment for the hungry, nonviolence in the face of injustice. Before divinity school, I lived for three years in an intentional Christian community. We bought groceries together and ran a community garden together and we distributed rent not equally, but according to what we each could manage. Sharing resources in community was joyful, but it also sometimes unsettled me. There’s a… Read More
by Kent M French, February 19, 2026
This Lent (February 18-April 4), we are following A Sanctified Art’s “Tell Me Something Good,” in our worship and Church School. We’re looking at what was central to Jesus’ life and ministry: radical welcome, love for neighbors, care for the vulnerable, nourishment for the hungry, nonviolence in the face of injustice. One of our colleagues in the United Church of Christ denomination is a foodie who describes himself as a “gastro-evangelist,” sharing his ministry through food and entertaining. He sees this as clearly following Jesus, who spent a lot of his ministry sharing food with people. Jesus also talked quite… Read More
by Amy Norton-Benfield, February 12, 2026
This Epiphany Season (January 6-February 17), we are following the ministry of Jesus as told in the Gospel of John, alongside our Church School curriculum. As I studied this week’s scripture passage, in which Jesus miraculously gives physical sight to a man who was born blind, I’m struck by how fixated the other people in the story (the disciples, the Pharisees, the man’s neighbors, etc.) are on why he was blind in the first place, how the miracle was performed, and who performed it. Jesus offers some firm redirection from that first question at the top of the story, “You’re… Read More
by Kent M French, February 05, 2026
This Epiphany Season (January 6-February 17) we are following the ministry of Jesus as told in the Gospel of John, alongside our Church School curriculum. Last week I noted in the 10am Bible study that in John’s Gospel, Jesus always seems to walk six feet or more off the ground. John makes sure to emphasize Jesus’ specialness and his miraculous powers. It’s a powerful and enduring testimony about the healing power of God working through him. And, sometimes it comes across as a little too fantastical for our modern ears. How can we relate? What does it mean for me… Read More
