Seven Ways to Say Yes, 2/7

Sandhya, "And the people said 'Yes!'" 

Sandhya Jha came to lead a workshop on anti-racism and intersectionality, and stayed to talk us through the prophetic power of presence. That's our second habit of life in the co-conspiracy of Galileo Church: "be present, physically and emotionally, in the life of the church."

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Seven Ways to Say Yes, 1/7

Our Eastertide series invites us to consider 7 habits of life that we adopt when we join the co-conspiracy. Don't know what that is? Check out our Covenant of Co-Conspiracy -- the way we say "yes" to Galileo's invitation to belong. The first habit of life: "Contemplate Your Baptism." 

Song's baptism, by Vera and Katie, Easter 2015.

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Christ Is Risen! He Is Risen Indeed! (Easter Sunday)

"I wonder if I would rather stay dead than depend on somebody else to raise me up? Stay down rather than let someone else lift me from the floor? Stay broken and guilty and shriveled with fear rather than let someone let me off the hook, forgive me, cover me with grace?"

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Passion Sunday: a short reflection

Maybe she's a scandal. But maybe she's a SPY. The anointing woman whose name we were supposed to remember... 

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Mansplaining Jesus: Christological themes in 1 Corinthians 5/5

Oh noooooo!

If the church asks you to believe too much, if it builds a Jenga tower of faith, pulling one block out can bring the whole project down. What if we take a minimalist approach to faith? What's the most basic core of Christian trust in God's power and providence? The Apostle Paul had an idea about that.

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Mansplaining Jesus: Christological Themes in 1 Corinthians, 4/5

What if we combine my “bought with a price” self with a bunch of “siblings for whom Christ died”? Now we have “the body of Christ,” in 1 Corinthians 12, doing Jesus’s work together in the world God loves. And love -- that’s the totalizing experiencing, right there -- see 1 Corinthians 13, and let it talk to chapter 12 for a minute.

The "body of Christ" (actually a wide outline of the body of Ryan F.) we made in worship.

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Litany of Confession (and Communion)

This is part two of “Mansplaining Jesus 3/6” from 3/19. You’ll hear the voices of our Missional Logistics Team, our Care & Feeding Team, and our pastoral staff, describing a situation that feels like a turning point in our church life. We confessed before the church that our welcome had reached a painful limit, and asked our Area Shepherd, Rev. Dick Lord, to pray for us and assure us of God's pardon. Listen with care, as there is a mention of sexual assault in the telling -- not among the people of Galileo Church, but in the story of another who asked for refuge with us.

Mansplaining Jesus: Christological Themes in 1 Corinthians 3/5

With apologies to the vegetarians among us. ❤️ 

1 Corinthians 8, 9, and 10 are about whether to eat meat from the altars of pagan, little-g-gods -- but really they're about how we think about each other, our “siblings for whom Christ died.” Decision-making is never that simple when you think about everyone who's affected by whatever you decide. Please note: this sermon is incomplete without the Litany of Confession that follows in our next recording from the same date.

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Mansplaining Jesus: Christological Themes in 1 Corinthians, 2/5

"You need two pockets," Rabbi Simcha said. "In one, a note: 'I am but dust and ashes.' In the other, a note: 'For my sake, the world was created.'" Or, according to Paul's Christo-logic in 1 Corinthians 3, 4, 5, and 6: "You were bought with a price."

Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Peshischa

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Mansplaining Jesus: Christological Themes in 1 Corinthians, 1/5

Early days, Redwood Originals,
Malcolm and Kaytee B., 10.2013

A new series lets the Apostle Paul have his Christological say -- what does it mean that he knows nothing but "Christ, and him crucified"? What is the Christ-logic of that?

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Communion Devotional: Jesus and His Friends

Ken at the Southern Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem.

Galileo's resident biblical scholar, Ken Berry, offered this communion devotional to conclude our worship series about Jesus’s nosiest conversations in the gospel of John.

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All Up In Your Business: 6/6

The man formerly known as blind, generations of bad theology, Jesus, and the most amazing Peter Gomes.

Peter J. Gomes, at Harvard Memorial Chapel.

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All Up In Your Business: 5/6

Obviously, adultery is right out. Obviously, the death penalty is right out. What else will we find out if we descend to rock bottom with this woman, caught in flagrante delicate? Rocks... and Jesus.

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You know what you find at rock bottom? Lotsa rocks.

All Up In Your Business: 4/6

The movie about the journalist who discovered the women were blowing up the well... And an interview with the film's screenwriter that discusses that incident.

The Samaritan woman who goes to the well alone, at high noon -- she got a serious trigger, or at least a serious pain that she'd rather not discuss. Don't we all?

But Jesus wants to talk about it, for real. Trigger warnings be danged.

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Allyson Robinson in the house!

When God tells the prophet Ezekiel to pack "baggage for exile," what exactly goes in that duffel bag? What's in yours, the stuff you can't do without? It's probably lighter than you think... 

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All Up In Your Business: 3/6

Gestate in the womb of the Christ; be born again into the world God so loves; let Jesus raise you into the human being God imagines you to be. Can you see it? Nicodemus couldn't, under the cover of darkness, and that's a shame. People around the world are waiting for us to be born anew.

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All Up In Your Business: 2/6

A joyous wedding with guests who party hard... a public tantrum that can get a guy arrested. All in a day's work for our guy Jesus. 

El Greco paints the Jesus who wasn't concerned with being liked.

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All Up In Your Business: 1/6

"The Other Nathan" is a friend of ours from Galileo's very beginning, and he's had a good and important word for us at many important times in our life together. "How did Jesus find YOU?" he wants to know in this sermon. Hm. That's a darn good question.

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#firsttime, #bigredbarn

Rev. Dr. Irie Session has been important in our pastor's life for more years than either of them need to admit. The inaugural sermon in our new worship space, "Pass the Salt!", was exactly exactly exactly right. Thanks, sister-friend. We are grateful beyond measure. 

The Revs. Drs. Irie and Katie ❤️❤️❤️ 

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The Illogical Logic of God: 6/6

Grasshopper Jenny wrestled with John in the Jordan and Jesus in the desert -- and what it means to be, really be, the beloved child of God.