Here are some of Isaac’s reflections on what it was like to show up at Chapel Hill Mennonite and experience a community that made “the priesthood of all believers” a living reality: During the service people from behind me, in front of me, and to my right and left got up to lead various parts [...]

Title: Learning to speak is learning to touch Text: Isaiah 42:13-17 Date: Oct 23, 2011 Author: M. Elia I first met the Lord Jesus in an enormous Baptist megachurch. Imagine the Durham Bulls stadium, but slightly larger and with a roof over it, only with no alcohol and fewer hotdogs. (Though our church did have [...]

Tile: The Father’s Womb Texts: Psalm 110; Isaiah 49:1-3, 13-18; John 1:14-18 Date: Oct 9, 2011 Author: Isaac S. Villegas I’m struggling with patriarchy these days, patriarchy and God, thinking of God as a Father, “Our Father, who art in heaven,” as we say in the prayer Jesus taught his disciples, that Jesus taught us [...]

Tile: She is not a man, nor is He a woman Texts: Exodus 3:13-15, Matthew 28:16-20 Date: Oct 9, 2011 Author: Isaac S. Villegas   This week kicks off our series on passages in the bible that mess with our imagination, with our images of God, especially our images of God’s gender. The church, by [...]

Tile: Uprooted and replanted Texts: Isaiah 5:1-8, Ps 80:7-15, Philip 3:4-14, Matt 21:33-46 Date: Oct 2, 2011 Author: Isaac S. Villegas   Scattered here and there in our Scriptures for today are images of God’s people, Israel, as vines, planted, uprooted, and replanted; vineyards that need care in order to thrive, to produce good fruit [...]