Identity Politics: Who Are You? 4/8

August 06, 2026 / Katie Hays

Who is Cephas? “Cephas” is the Aramaic form of “Peter,” i.e. Jesus’s most vocal and passionate disciple. Paul has caught Peter in blatant hypocrisy: keeping kosher when certain Jewish- Christian leaders are around, but freely noshing with Gentiles when they’re not. Paul says you can’t have it both ways. What does it mean to strive for integrity (integration, wholeness) in Christian identity?

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Identity Politics: Who Are You? 3/8

August 06, 2026 / Katie Hays

Who is Paul? Paul the Apostle had a violent, anti-Christian past. It was hard to overcome, and he might have asked for the approval of the OG apostles (i.e. the ones who knew Jesus). But he eschewed their credentialing and asserted his own identity as an apostle “through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead” (1:1). What does it take to have a strong enough sense of self that neither your past nor your peers define you?

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Identity Politics: Who Are You? 2/8

August 06, 2026 / Katie Hays

Who is Joseph? From a favored child, to slavery, sexual objectification and assault, prisoner, forgotten, to finally the second most powerful person in Egypt. Joseph’s life is a traumatic roller coaster, with incredible peaks, and horrid valleys. To put it another way, Joseph is a spiritual refugee. So many of us are like him in some way. And, like Joseph, we have still held on, still hope that God’s love is real, for us, and worth it. And, we are also called to echo Joseph's life, not as one who only survives, but also works to help others, that is, build up the Kingdom of God. All that has happened to Joseph could make him hateful, vengeful, hostile, and cruel, understandably so. But none of that will help to create the world we want, the world that God wants. What if we can gather up all that we are learning in this shelter of each other, and all that has happened to us, so we might be changed into people who will live out mercy, justice, kindness, and love?

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Identity Politics: Who Are You? 1/8

July 13, 2026 / Katie Hays

I Am Not Only Good Enough -- I Am Enough! Ken Ehrke visits us to speak about fully embodying Sabbath Rest in Exodus 20:8-11.

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NSFC: Spirituality, Sex, and Longing in the Song of Songs 6/6

July 13, 2026 / Katie Hays

Longing for Intimacy with God is Sexy. The sex described in the Song of Songs is neither transactional (the joining of families and property) nor procreative. It’s just the pure pleasure of wanting, enjoying, and wanting again the complete union of one person with another. The church has long interpreted this erotic state of being as a spiritual state of being. Human beings are made to long for connection with their Creator, and so the SoS is read as a love song in praise of the human and Divine as lovers, estranged but ready for passionate reunion.

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NSFC: Spirituality, Sex, and Longing in the Song of Songs 5/6

June 29, 2026 / Katie Hays

Monogamy is Sexy. These lovers anticipate their marriage, but even before the covenant vows they are pledged solely to each other. This is not a constraint on their freedom but the very nature of the height of love: that each lover is so consumed by passion for the other that there is simply no room for anyone else in their hearts or minds. (See especially 5:9ff; 6:3; 6:9; 7:10.) This is both a marital and theological claim: that monogamous marriage (the consummation of one love over one lifetime) trains our hearts for the loyalty of monotheism.

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NSFC: Spirituality, Sex, and Longing in the Song of Songs 4/6

June 22, 2026 / Katie Hays

Mutuality is Sexy. Notably, the SoS is a duet between lovers – a woman and man, in this case. Moreover, the woman’s voice is first and last, and it is she who sets the terms of their relationship in both love and sex. The lovers seek each other, wait for each other, ask for each other, pine for each other, in a way that demonstrates a startling parity between the genders for that time (and ours). Enthusiastic consent, indeed.

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NSFC: Spirituality, Sex, and Longing in the Song of Songs 3/6

June 15, 2026 / Katie Hays

Come as You Are. The Corinthian Christians worried about what they needed to change, repair, or complete before they could be accepted into the fellowship of Christ. Paul responds that God’s call comes before our lives are well in order, and perfection (or even having your shit together) is not a prerequisite. God invites messy people in messy circumstances into relationship first, and to let the Holy Spirit transform them when the time comes for it. Especially during Pride Month, this text reminds us that God’s welcome is not only for people who conform to a certain standard, but for all anyone willing to answer when God calls. Jillian Moran is preaching.

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NSFC: Spirituality, Sex, and Longing in the Song of Songs 2/6

June 08, 2026 / Katie Hays

The Earth is Sexy. The SoS overflows with imagery from the natural world – flora and fauna, sights and smells, an extravaganza (orgy?) of appreciation for a well-watered spring. The lovers meet and make out (make love?) outside; they compare each other’s beauty to things they’ve seen in nature; nature stirs their desire for each other. Can this sexy appreciation of the earth lead us to a love that drives care, justice, and reclamation of our planetary home?

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NSFC: Spirituality, Sex, and Longing in the Song of Songs 1/6

June 01, 2026 / Katie Hays

Your Body is Sexy. We can’t get around it in the SoS – bodies are beautiful, especially in the eyes of someone who knows and loves your body. And sex, too, as something (most of) our bodies want, is sexy and good and blessed and biblical.

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[Redacted]: Conspiring with Jesus 7/7

May 26, 2026 / Katie Hays

Contemplation of your baptism, past or future. Through our baptisms, we join the communion of the saints around the world, past and future. We are a link in a long chain of those who preserve the story, “the keepers of the horn” in Cormac McCarthy’s phrase in No Country for Old Men. How wonderful to be part of something so old and so beautiful!

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[Redacted]: Conspiring with Jesus 6/7

May 19, 2026 / Katie Hays

Presence, the best you can, at gatherings of the church. Jesus’s assessment of the times he lived in was pretty grim: arrests and trials, intra-family strife, secrecy and murder. It’s no less (or more) true now – discipleship is a dangerous business. This is no time to cocoon at home alone.

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[Redacted]: Conspiring with Jesus 5/7

May 11, 2026 / Katie Hays

Cultivation of spiritual gifts for the life of our church and community. “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few,” Jesus says, and it feels true today, too. What does it take to be part of a DIY church? What’s the difference in a consumer-client culture and citizenship in a community?

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[Redacted]: Conspiring with Jesus 4/7

May 04, 2026 / Katie Hays

Participation in the church’s discernment for our next steps together. There are so many decisions to be made when we are confronted with Jesus’s presence and power. Who is he? Can he really do what he says he can do? Whose side is he on, anyway? And in contemporary life: what does he intend for us to do and be now, and next?

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[Redacted]: Conspiring with Jesus 3/7

April 27, 2026 / Katie Hays

Extension of the church’s welcome to friends, neighbors, strangers, and enemies. Two stories of invitation: the friends who bring a paralytic to Jesus’s feet, and Jesus calling Matthew to come along. None of us comes to faith alone; our discipleship journey is the opposite of the U.S. American “self-made man [sic]”. Who are the helpers who are bringing us along, even now? And for whom are we the inviters?

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[Redacted]: Conspiring with Jesus 2/7

April 20, 2026 / Katie Hays

Sharing of material resources to further the church’s goals. Jesus has a way of commandeering resources for his own use – that boat, e.g., and those swine – probably because he has so little of his own (“Foxes have holes... but the Son of Man has nowhere...”). In what sense have our own resources been conscripted for his work?

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[Redacted]: Conspiring with Jesus 1/7

April 13, 2026 / Katie Hays

Gracious receipt of care from the church family. One thing that Jesus recognizes in us is our need – our brokenness, unhealth, lack of resources. It’s not our favorite thing to show him, or each other. But to conspire with the beloveds who gather in his name, the confession of need is essential.

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Easter 2026

April 08, 2026 / Katie Hays

Easter Sunday 2026

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Somersaults on a Mountainside 5/5

March 25, 2026 / Katie Hays

Commissioning Rev. John Bowers as our Youngster Czar.

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Somersaults on a Mountainside 4/5

March 19, 2026 / Katie Hays

The Rains Came Down and the Flood Came Up. In this final batch of sayings (which are less thematically unified than the previous chapters), Jesus offers what we could call “rabbinic advice” for how to condition one’s spirit for harder times to come. Because it’s going to rain soon, and tidal waves of sorrow will wipe out poorly built shelters. What does Present Me do to gift Future Me with the resilience she needs to weather the storm?

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