Reverend Christopher Roe PROGRESSIVE MINISTER. COLLABORATIVE ORGANIZER. PASSIONATE EDUCATOR.
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In a contemporary world that seemingly holds a mirror up to the injustices, oppression, and supremacy of the ancient world, what might the harrowing stories of Palm Sunday and its protest narratives have to inspire our contemporary world?
"They tried to burry us, but they didn't know that we were seeds," inspires us to imagine the Easter story as one of unimaginable justice, collective liberation, and a contemporary call to resist, persist, and insist on co-creating the more loving and just world that could be, should be, and must be.
As the world and its organized institutions continues to swim through the waters of change and transformation, so too do its spiritual and religious institutions. How might the shift from metrics of "belief" and "behavior" be shaping the future of the role of "belonging" in our Beloved Communities?
As we continue to give focus to the shifts from "belief" and "behavior" towards "belonging," how might more embodied approaches rooted in love take on more and more significance in comparison to our historic appreciations of intellect, expertise, and institutional power?
Who says being a "heretic" has to be a bad thing? On the heals of an immensely hate-filled campaign targeted towards the church and its Senior Minister, how might we still find "Good News" in the liberating gifts of being a loving, healthy, and happy heretic?
The gripping oppression and rigid power of the ancient stories of Pharaoh rhymes a lot more with our contemporary stories than we might like to admit. How are the lessons of injustice in the ancient world calling into focus the work of love, liberation, justice, and peacemaking that must now happen in our time?
Let's face it, there is much to be overwhelmed by and lose hope over in our world, especially when it feels as though there is nothing we can do. But what if the path towards enduring hope and change in fact begins when we acknowledge there is in fact so little we can do, and yet still so much we can?
