Prayer Pod

Prayer Pod

Tim Kim ·

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Prayer Pod is a short, guided prayer session of meditative practice, poetry, and music. Prayer can be hard! We hope this makes it a little more accessible and immersive. Put on some headphones (you should really use headphones!) and give it a listen. 

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Poem: Elegy by Aracelis Girmay
Music: By Tim Kim
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The God Box

Tim Kim ·

In these strange quarantine times, we’ve schemed up something of a home-church kit called God Box. Now you can have your own little sacred alter wherever you might be. These are kits you can make however you’d like, but we’ve provided some instructions and suggestions. Check out our infomercial and click on the infograph for more details.

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Seeing With Empathy

Tim Kim ·

We’ve come to end of our series on relationships (that can make or break you!) having talked about friends, family, and our enemies. So in conclusion, let us focus on this thing which is at the center of all this relationship stuff: empathy. Empathy is sexy (some say) and it’s difficult to get away from the word these days. Many see it as the way out of this dystopian political state we are in, or its lack as the reason we are here in the first place. But what if we are all a bit confused about what it means and what it actually looks like in our day to day interactions? When the Good Samaritan does his thing, is he driven by empathy, compassion, sympathy, duty, all of the above? Is the idea of incarnation, God becomes human, an act of empathy?

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On Family

Tim Kim ·

“Blood is thicker than water,” that old devilish saying goes. The meaning of this phrase is pretty straightforward: family (blood) relations are inherently stronger than any other kind of non-familial (water) relationship or bond. Right? Nah. This rendition of the phrase actually carries the complete opposite meaning from the original phrase: “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” Funny how words get twisted.

Familial relationships can be great, aaaaand they can be the worst. Join us this week as we continue our examination of the relationships that make and break us. We will examine one of Jesus’s most famous parables - the prodigal son - and see what sense we can make of family, loosely defined.

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A Brief History of Friendship

Tim Kim ·

This week we focus our attention on friendship. On one hand, maybe it's weird for a community of adults to talk about this thing which seems to hold diminishing importance for us as we move through the world. It is also not exactly the most famous of topics when it comes to Christianity and religion and spirituality in general. At the same time, adult friendships are important! Particularly so for a generation that is super transient, getting married later (if at all), having less kids, and has the internet (insert anti-tech screed here). Furthermore, there is actually a rich and robust history of thought around friendship as a theological and philosophical topic. One could even argue that when Jesus talked about love and relationships, he was informed more by his friendships than familial or romantic bonds. In any case, join us as we start to unpack the relationshipthat St. Augustine said was “sweeter than all the sweetness of [his] life."

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People of Invitation

Tim Kim ·

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There is this thing called the Great Commission, the last five sentences that close out the Gospel of Matthew. It says things like “Go out and make disciples of all nations,” for which it has become a rallying cry for all sorts of efforts to evangelize and convert people. That makes a certain sort of sense, but divine command mixed with human fallibility is formula for disaster, perhaps THE formula for disaster. The kinds of so-called Christian efforts taking place in Alabama and elsewhere underscore just how deep fallibility runs, as well as how fraught the idea of evangelizing can be when mixed with bad theologies, politics, and a prejudiced view about what it means to actually show love. Before we consider if there is a better way to do this, it might be necessary to ask what “this” actually is. In other words, what does it mean for us, our community in particular, to share something with the world?

Cringey Moments of Regret

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Have you ever been gossiping about someone and then they walked in and overheard you? Or maybe lost your temper at your partner and said that one thing that you know they are really insecure about just to hurt their feelings? Or dipped out early from your friend’s birthday party because you got a better offer? Every one of us has, at various points in our lives, done things that have hurt the people we care about. And as much as we might wish we could turn back time and do things differently, the painful truth is that we can’t.

Instead, we have to deal with those cringe-y moments of regret as they come, and find ways to not let our mistakes be the death of our relationships or our sense of self-worth. We have to seek forgiveness from those we’ve hurt, and forgive ourselves (which might be even more difficult). This week, as we continue the Easter season, we are going to explore whether this whole resurrection thing wasn’t just a one time miracle that happened to Jesus all those years ago, but something that still happens today, even in our very own lives. What if resurrection looks less like a dead man walking, and more like forgiveness? At first glance, it might seem less incredible, sure, but it just might be the key to bringing us back to life when we are most down and out.