Listen "What We Have in Common"
Episode Synopsis
This week we explore one thing I believe we all have in common in these divided times: a feeling of precarity. This common feeling ironically promotes division, but Jesus does have a word for us that we can explore together.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Video: Father Greg Boyle on how We Belong to Each Other
2. Scripture: Sermon on the Mount, Matthew chapters 5-7, NIV translation
3. Org: Starts With Us - working to end extreme political and cultural division in America
4. Song: Hold Us Together, by Matt Maher
5. Journal prompts:
After reading the Sermon on the Mount, is there a teaching from Jesus I find there that surprises me?
Is there a group of people that I routinely dismiss or demonize? How can I try to see them as God sees them?
6. Book: Start With Hello - and other simple ways to live with each other as neighbors, by Shannan Martin
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Video: Father Greg Boyle on how We Belong to Each Other
2. Scripture: Sermon on the Mount, Matthew chapters 5-7, NIV translation
3. Org: Starts With Us - working to end extreme political and cultural division in America
4. Song: Hold Us Together, by Matt Maher
5. Journal prompts:
After reading the Sermon on the Mount, is there a teaching from Jesus I find there that surprises me?
Is there a group of people that I routinely dismiss or demonize? How can I try to see them as God sees them?
6. Book: Start With Hello - and other simple ways to live with each other as neighbors, by Shannan Martin
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