The Table Blog

A word from Frs. Ben, Matt, and Spencer: The three of us were reflecting the other day that this election has us all feeling pretty anxious: not knowing what the results will be, or the (potentially violent) response to those results. Add to this, of…

Last Sunday Deb preached on the Lord’s Prayer, proclaiming to us the good news that prayer is a gift from God, whereby he shares his power with us to live out the political vision of the Sermon on the Mount. I was reading this week…

Dear Church, This past Sunday I preached a portion of the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus instructs his followers to do their giving, praying, and fasting in secret. As I was preparing, I was struck by how reckoning with my own privilege continues to…

Dear Church, We continue to hold out the political manifesto of Jesus – the Sermon on the Mount – during our worship on Sunday mornings together. We need a robust imagination for how to inhabit our world with the love of Jesus and the logic…

Dear Church, As I said in my sermon this past Sunday, we live in a world where the powerful regularly exploit and oppress the weak, where people are seen as resources to be used. It’s not difficult to find examples of this “out there” in…

Dear Church, This past Sunday I made a few points about The Sermon on the Mount that you may not have heard before. Let me summarize, and then offer additional resources for reading and reflection if you want to dig more deeply into these ideas. …

Dear Church, This past Sunday was the second week of our series on the Sermon on the Mount: Living the Politics of Jesus in a Partisan America. Our preaching text included the Beatitudes of Jesus, and it was such an honor to proclaim the good…

Dear Church, Last Sunday we kicked off our new fall series preaching through the Sermon on the Mount: Living the Politics of Jesus in a Partisan America. The first sermon was titled “Neither Left Nor Right Nor ‘Spiritual’: the Politics of Jesus”. As Fr. Matt…

Dear Church, This Sunday we begin our fall series on The Sermon on the Mount. Our series title is Living the Politics of Jesus in a Partisan America, which should give you a sense of where we are going with this. We believe that Jesus…

Dear Church, It was deeply meaningful to me to be able to actually join you for worship this past Sunday. Even with all the restrictions we need to put in place, there was a sense of holiness and beauty about the Body of Christ ​gathering​…