A lot of folks around City Church tend towards the more progressive side of faith. One of the challenges that we can run into is what Brit Barron calls “Progressive Amnesia.”

Throughout history, people from marginalized communities have often been told to stay quiet, be humble, and accept injustice by iyree jarrett

yesterday, Allison Sanders and Brandi Miller blessed the meek amongst us.

May we let go of polished prayers and held-back tears, of grief tucked behind practiced worship, of sorrow hidden beneath hallelujahs. by iyree jarrett

Jesus invites us into our pain.

Love for God, and each other, can transform our lives and that of our community by Kelley Barton

Jesus went around doing good. Wherever he showed up, he made that event better, he made those people better, he made that neighborhood better.

I believe God can be found in the most ordinary of things, even a board game about making Mars habitable.

Jesus says there’s a blessing when we get our international and external worlds aligned. The blessing is that we get to see God at work.

We are not called to solve every conflict or heal every wound overnight. Instead, we are invited to take the next faithful step toward reconciliation, trusting that God meets us there.

These words kick off Jesus’s most famous sermon—the most famous sermon in the world

Do I have to Tithe? Those of use raised in the Evangelical environment know all too well the concept of tithing. For many, it started as we were kids, having to set aside a portion of our allowance to tithe to our church, at the urging or requirement, of our parents.

Thinking about “For I know the plans I have for you”

Keep me from the arrogance
of believing I have arrived. Keep me curious enough

to gather gold from unlikely places. By iyree jarrett

Paul makes the bold claim that God’s purpose in Christ is to reconcile together all things.

Don’t try to tell them it will get better, to offer words of hope from a place that you might feel, but is beyond reach for them in that moment. Don’t act as if the grenade in their lives didn’t just go off.

Simple, heartfelt reflections on loss and suffering.

I finally free to question the tension between the idea of eternal conscious torment and my belief that God is loving and good. By iyree Jarrett

Maybe the destruction Jesus talks about is in this life and not the next

So we march. We stand up. We speak out. Because we love and serve a radical God who lead by example in caring for the weak against the strong by Kelley Barton