Topic: Faith

Context changes everything. Where, when and how we encounter life changes what we seek and long for from God and faith. Adaptive faith allows for the constancy of God in our ever-changing lives. It also requires us to be fluid – like water!

As societies collapse under the weight of their own sin, God’s promises stand firm and we are called to persevere in faith and righteousness.

Resurrection keeps happening and keeps changing the world and overcoming the hostile deathly powers despite our inability to believe.

Celebrating God is not to be a denial of reality, but a faith-filled reaching out for a new reality.

Despite our almost idolatrous attachment to social structures like traditional family and monarchy, God wants us to live up to our calling to be a radically egalitarian community of prayerful shared responsibility.

Jesus never stops crossing the menacing water to come to where we are, saying: “Take courage. It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

Jesus calls us to follow him in being a contagious force for love and mercy rather than fearfully quarantining ourselves from bad influences.

Imagination, fed by Jesus, enables us to grow and stretch, to make a way from what is to what could be, for the sake of worlds of hope God is already excited about.

We live in uncertain times, unsure of the future shape of the church, but Jesus sends the Holy Spirit to us, not to give us certainty, but to guide and sustain us in the uncertainty.

The journey of a faithful life is about risk, about uncertainty, about careful, solitary reflection, and about community and conversation.

The power of God is that a contagion of life—of transformation, hope, and peace—is more powerful than a contagion of death.

Although we can’t prove that our faith isn’t another crackpot fraud, we can provide evidence by living lives of love, hope and hospitality.