Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(many churches observe the Transfiguration this Sunday)
Isaiah 49:8-16
1 Corinthians 4:1-5
Matthew 6: 24-34
By Reverend Dr. Victoria Marie
Today I’m just going to touch on a few points in the Gospel reading in the hopes that they stimulate more thoughts and questions for all of us. To set the stage, look at the unrestrained resource extraction, our addiction to fossil fuels, and the consumerism that threatens to consume us and the earth. Yet, we all have to earn a living and unfortunately, some people have no other choice but to work for industries and systems that are killing us. We have been drafted into a system where we are trying to serve God but are enslaved by wealth; quite a dilemma! Upton Sinclair wrote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Continue reading “Wild Lectionary: A Way Without Fear”
By Lynn Hur, originally published in The Mennonite and on the 
Beloved Community,
A report on Exodus Lending from the 
A Facebook post from Eduardo Bonilla-silva, professor of sociology at Duke University and author of 
“There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it. But you do not stand alone. You will learn that your trouble is but part of the trouble of all the western world.” – Elrond, J.R.R Tolkein, The Fellowship of the Ring
by Talitha Fraser with Kaumatua Gregg Morris
Seventh Sunday After the Epiphany
From the Intro to Rev. William Barber’s 
Radical Discipleship 