Migration

Migration is a constant in today's world. Millions of people are on the move today as refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers.* While there have always been restless souls, most people move to seek a better or safer life. The instability in many countries caused by war, environmental disasters, and politics has caused a tsunami of migration. In Micah 4:1-5, Micah reminds us that wars will end, swords will be beaten into plough shares, spears will be made into pruning hooks, and in completing that famous passage, people will be safe in their own homes. Can you imagine the change that living out this Scripture would bring about?


* International Organization for Migration, "World Migration Report 2015, http://publications.iom.int/system/files/wmr2015_en.pdf, 26.

The Pentecost Rainbow

by Teresa Burnett-Cole • 10 June 2019
Today is Pentecost Sunday. The day we see and hear about some of the great symbols of faith. The day we all see red! Traditionally Pentecost is about being surprised, and being fully enlivened by God’s spirit, as Jesus was. And Pentecost is about hearing and experiencing the present-ness of God in a language we can understand... Not just in English or French or Korean or German, but also in the language of unemployment, television commercials, supermarket shopping and school playgrounds.

Alleluia! Christ is Risen!

by Teresa Burnett-Cole • 28 April 2019
Alleluia, Christ is Risen! Christ is risen indeed, Alleluia! This morning, I want to say a word about Easter, a word taken from one of the great Eastern images of the mystery of the resurrection, an icon that has been a part of the Christian vision of what the Resurrection is all about since around the year 600. I have been powerfully drawn to this icon lately, and I want to talk about it a bit this morning. Let’s take a look. Remember: icons are about the theological meaning of people and events; they aren’t representative art like we might typically encounter. Icons are never depictions of exactly what happened. They’re pictures of what things mean. So, an icon of the Resurrection doesn’t show what the resurrection might have looked like back then—an icon of the Resurrection shows what it means now.