Justice or Just Us Session 1: Recognizing Dissonance

Our three hosts invite us to recognize dissonance, or contradiction, within the historical church and within ourselves regarding racism and the need for racial ...

Not Forsaken Session 1: Introduction

Author and pastor, Chris McNair describes his ministry at Christ’s Children and the purpose of the book, Not Forsaken. He shares his joys and mistakes in min...

Holding Up Your Corner Session 1: Introduction

Willis introduces the guided conversation and our call as the Church to engage in loving dialogue and hold up our corners.

Holding Up Your Corner Session 2: Ground Rules

Willis offers foundational concepts for people of faith to engage in open and loving dialogue.

Holding Up Your Corner Session 3: Creating Racial Autobiography

Willis explains what a racial autobiography is and encourages us to reflect and share the factors that have made us who we are.

Holding Up Your Corner Session 4: Introducing EMT

Willis shares some of his story in Ferguson and retells the biblical story of the paralytic to introduce Empathic Models of Transformation

Holding Up Your Corner Session 5: Acknowledge Affirm And Act

Willis summarizes the three points of Empathic Models of Transformation.

Holding Up Your Corner Session 6: How To Be A Listening Church

How to be a listening church.

Holding Up Your Corner Session 7: Summary of Acknowledge Affirm And Act

Willis summarizes the three points of Empathic Models of Transformation

Holding Up Your Corner Session 8: Don't Wait A Single Moment

Willis encourages us to act swiftly.

Holding Up Your Corner Session 9: What It Takes To Be An EMT

Willis identifies the need for heart to be an EMT.

Holding Up Your Corner Session 10: What Are You Going To Do

Willis challenges us to commit to doing something that hold up our corner.

The Shout Session 1: Where is Justice?

Session 1: Where is Justice?

The Shout Session 2: Who is Your Family?

Session 2: Who Is Your Family?

The Shout Session 3: What is Freedom?

Session 3: What Is Freedom?

The Shout Session 4: Who Deserves Our Respect?

Session 4: Who Deserves Our Respect?

The Shout Session 5: How Much Is Enough?

Session 5: How Much Is Enough?

The Shout Session 6: How Can We Be Whole?

Session 6: How Can We Be Whole?

A New Heaven and a New Earth

The problem with racial reconciliation

3 John B - Profound Acts of Love

Third John reminds us that profound acts of love can be hidden within simple gestures of hospitality, a kind of hospitality that is desperately needed in a cult...

Black & White: Friendship 101

Authors Teesha Hadra and John Hambrick talk about what it means to form a real and authentic cross-racial friendship.

Black & White: Nudging the System

Authors Teesha and John Hambrick discuss how strong cross-racial relationships can help us to recognize and begin to combat the destructive systems of racism.

Black & White: Planks and Specks

In Matthew 7, Jesus teaches about "planks and specks." How does this come into our conversations about race in this country?

Brother

Jesus was clear when he told us to love our enemies (Luke 6:27). In fact, He said that people would know we are His disciples by the way that we love (John 13:3...

Building Bridges: Different Contexts

Pastors Stephen Handy and Jacob Armstrong talk about building bridges across the racial divide in their distinct community contexts. In this segment, Stephen an...

Building Bridges: Choosing Diversity

Pastors Stephen Handy and Jacob Armstrong talk about building bridges across the racial divide in their distinct community contexts. In this segment, Stephen an...

Building Bridges: Fear Factors

Pastors Stephen Handy and Jacob Armstrong talk about building bridges across the racial divide in their distinct community contexts. In this session, Jacob and ...

Building Bridges: The Importance of Transparency

Pastors Stephen Handy and Jacob Armstrong talk about building bridges across the racial divide in their distinct community contexts. In this segment, Jacob and ...

Building Bridges: The Problem with Privilege

Pastors Stephen Handy and Jacob Armstrong talk about building bridges across the racial divide in their distinct community contexts. In this segment, Stephen an...

Christmas Cookies from Cambodia

The Bible and Race in America

Facing Our History

Otherness, race, and the American challenge

Faith Activism and Martin Luther King's Legacy

How would Martin Luther King view today's faith activists? Professor Obery Hendricks, Professor Josef Sorett and Rabbi Steve Gutow say that King, the standard b...

Faith of a Mockingbird Session 3: Tom Robinson: When Challenge is Defining

In Session 3, In order to explain the difficulty of recognizing systemic racism, Matt Rawle uses how a choir stays in tune to show how easy it is for a system t...

Fear of the Other Session 1: Saved by the Other

In Session 1, William H. Willimon and Delia Catalina Ramirez discuss Saved by the Other.

Fear of the Other Session 2: The Other, My Enemy

In Session 2, William H. Willimon and Delia Catalina Ramirez discuss The Other, My Enemy.

Fear of the Other Session 3: Learning to Fear Like Christians

In Session 3, William H. Willimon and Delia Catalina Ramirez discuss Learning to Fear Like Christians.

Fear of the Other Session 5: Jesus, the Other

In Session 5, William H. Willimon and Delia Catalina Ramirez discuss Jesus, The Other.

Forgiveness

A playground incident leads to forgiveness.

Healing

A boy finds healing after a tragic loss.

Isaiah B - God's Love is for Everybody

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in a land of deep darkness, on them light has shined. This is the good news according...

James B - Agents of a New Age

Sorry Reformers, but the distinction between faith and works is a false one. Faith is an active participation in the Reign of God, a tree firmly planted in the ...

James Grocho - A Greater Need

This inspirational film shows the struggle of every day people trying to look for fulfillment in the wrong places. It describes what Jesus did for us and inspir...

James Grocho - Shine Your Light

We have been given the Light of God to share with others. Our light can shine on the truth that the darkness tries to hide. This will inspire and motivate your ...

James Grocho - We Are The Church

A young man realizes while walking into an empty church, that the church is just a building. He realizes that stained glass windows can’t pray for the si...

John 1

This animation features video of the cosmos with the first five verses of John 1 from the Common English Bible.

Justice

The hard work of justice for everyone is far from over. Use this motivational and inspiring mini-movie to challenge your community to open their eyes to the nee...

King's Faith to Believe

The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr., talks about his most profound memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- King's "faith to believe" as he waited, far from friends and fam...

Scriptures For The Christian Life: Love

Robert Gardner discusses what the world could use a little more of: Love.

More Than A Label

We have a natural tendency to label and categorize everything in our lives, including the people around us. But those labels can divide us within the Kingdom, i...

On The Street: Race in America

Ferguson, Missouri, is again in the news the subsequent shooting of two police officers as crowds gathered outside Ferguson Police Station Thursday March 12th, ...

Race and the Death Penalty

Texas is the first U.S. state to reach a grim milestone- they recently executed their 500th prisoner since the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a moratorium on the dea...

Racism is Genocide

Race, says The Rev. Dr. James Forbes, is used to define who is worthy of existence; and racism is genocide; and a slow process of extermination.

Reckless Love Session 4: Open-hearted Love

Session 4: Openhearted Love - Tom speaks with Rev. Lindsey Baynham regarding race relations and learning to love with an open heart. They also speak on Christ l...

Say It Loud: I'm Black and I'm Proud

Warning: Contains explicit and disturbing language. Anti-blackness, oppression, and the dehumanization of black bodies.

Some People

In a cynical world, it's love that compels us to believe. Some People encourages us to imagine what kind of place the church could be if we see every person as ...

The Beatitudes

Diverse individuals read The Beatitudes from the Common English Bible with additional footage of people depicting the qualities and struggles of this important ...

The Talk, The Prayer, The Cry

Retired NYPD Chaplain Suzan Johnson Cook, speaks about the particular struggles of a mother preparing her sons to grow up as young black men in the United Stat...

Three Simple Rules

See Rueben Job's Three Simple Rules presented in moving text and graphics.

Two Christianities

American religion in black and white

Unafraid Session 2: Crime, Racism, Terrorism, and Politics

In Session 2: Crime, Racism, Terrorism, and Politics, Adam Hamilton explores the question of how we overcome our fears of other people. He discusses strategies ...

We Are The Church: Nurturing Community

We are family. We are community, We are relationships. We grieve. We support. We Celebrate. We are the Church.

We Are The Church: Social Community

We do justice. We love kindness. We walk humbly with God. We empower. We serve. We are called. We are the Church.

What Does it Mean to be White?

History and the social construct of race

Whither the Women?

Race, gender, and the intersecting nature of oppression

With You

With You (I Feel Again) - reflects on how easy it is to be lonely in a crowd. Set to the platinum hit single "Feel Again" by One Republic (used by permission), ...

I'm Black. I'm Christian. I'm Methodist: Session 1

What Has Racism Cost the Church? This is a portion of the webinar Conversations about Racism and The UMC: A book discussion about “I'm Black. I'm Christian. ...

I'm Black. I'm Christian. I'm Methodist: Session 2

Intersections of Identity. In this portion, Tori C. Butler, Pamela R. Lightsey, and Vance P. Ross discuss “Intersections of Race, Gender, and LGBTQIA+ Identit...

I'm Black. I'm Christian. I'm Methodist: Session 3

Ministry and Racism. In this portion, Rudy Rasmus, Erin Beasley, Jevon A. Caldwell-Gross, and F. Willis Johnson discuss “Ministry and Racism” with M. Garlin...

White Too Long Session 1: Seeing

This first chapter of White Too Long, “Seeing,” focuses on awareness. The author lifts up White Christians’ and White churches’ inability to see their r...

Love Actually Is

Most of us could quote Paul's "love chapter", or 1 Corinthians 13, off the top of our heads. But how many of us consistently live out those definitions of love ...

Some People

In a cynical world, it's love that compels us to believe. Some People encourages us to imagine what kind of place the church could be if we see every person as ...

Justice

The hard work of justice for everyone is far from over. Use this motivational and inspiring mini-movie to challenge your community to open their eyes to the nee...

Parables: The New and Old Wineskins

In this dramatization, a woman finds comfort during a day out with a friend.

Psalms 23

Psalm 23 is presented against beautiful nature images including drone shots and aerial views.

Parables: The Mustard Seed

In this dramatization, a young girl learns to perfect a family recipe.

With You

With You (I Feel Again) - reflects on how easy it is to be lonely in a crowd. Set to the platinum hit single "Feel Again" by One Republic (used by permission), ...

Parables: The Lost Son

In this dramatization, a successful young man struggles at the family's reception of his brother who has returned from prison.

More Than A Label

We have a natural tendency to label and categorize everything in our lives, including the people around us. But those labels can divide us within the Kingdom, i...

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Moving graphics presenting the text of Deuteronomy 6:4-9, The Shema.

Three Simple Rules

See Rueben Job's Three Simple Rules presented in moving text and graphics.

Parables: The Mustard Seed

In this dramatization, a young girl learns to perfect a family recipe.

Justice

The hard work of justice for everyone is far from over. Use this motivational and inspiring mini-movie to challenge your community to open their eyes to the nee...

The Ten Commandments

A dramatization of the Ten Commandments, combined with a dramatic reading.

James Grocho - The Forgiven

Forgiving is the last thing we want to do when we are hurt by someone. This video illustrates that Jesus came to change the system of forgiveness. And that forg...

Every Good Gift: Give Thanks

This narrated meditation explores gratitude and giving thanks for loved ones,

We Are The Church: Social Community

We do justice. We love kindness. We walk humbly with God. We empower. We serve. We are called. We are the Church.

James Grocho - I Am Human

We are only human and sometimes we make mistakes and falter from God. This video describes that God is faithful, even when we are faithless. That we can be forg...

James Grocho - Potential

This videos talk about how most people go through life never discovering their true potential. If we just give God our weakness he will give us His strength. Yo...

James Grocho - Open Eyes

A video demonstrating that when we have faith in our lives, our eyes our open to see what God is doing in our lives. He shows us our struggles and reminds us th...

We Are The Church: Nurturing Community

We are family. We are community, We are relationships. We grieve. We support. We Celebrate. We are the Church.

James Grocho - We Are The Church

A young man realizes while walking into an empty church, that the church is just a building. He realizes that stained glass windows can’t pray for the si...

The Beatitudes

Diverse individuals read The Beatitudes from the Common English Bible with additional footage of people depicting the qualities and struggles of this important ...

Love Actually Is

Most of us could quote Paul's "love chapter", or 1 Corinthians 13, off the top of our heads. But how many of us consistently live out those definitions of love ...

With You

With You (I Feel Again) - reflects on how easy it is to be lonely in a crowd. Set to the platinum hit single "Feel Again" by One Republic (used by permission), ...

James Grocho - Your Light

We all shine a light and that light symbolizes God’s love. We all possess the power in helping others shine their light for the good of mankind.

James Grocho - Revolution

This inspirational mini-movie talks about how we can be the hands and feet of Jesus in this hurting world. And that we can do anything through Christ who gives ...

Brother

Jesus was clear when he told us to love our enemies (Luke 6:27). In fact, He said that people would know we are His disciples by the way that we love (John 13:3...

Great In The Small

We are inclined to seek large, spectacular signs and wonders, but God has always revealed Himself through small, seemingly insignificant things. Great in the Sm...

Share Your Thanksgiving

We tend to romanticize the traditional Thanksgiving meal with the entire, multi-generational family surrounding the table. The truth is, Thanksgiving is celebra...

More Than A Label

We have a natural tendency to label and categorize everything in our lives, including the people around us. But those labels can divide us within the Kingdom, i...

Some People

In a cynical world, it's love that compels us to believe. Some People encourages us to imagine what kind of place the church could be if we see every person as ...

This Is Resurrection Opening

This is Resurrection uniquely brings together those who have doubts and those who are certain about faith, showing us that resurrection is more than just a stor...

This Is Resurrection Contemplative

This is Resurrection uniquely brings together those who have doubts and those who are certain about faith, showing us that resurrection is more than just a stor...

James Grocho - A Greater Need

This inspirational film shows the struggle of every day people trying to look for fulfillment in the wrong places. It describes what Jesus did for us and inspir...

Every Good Gift: Good Stewards

In this short, narrated meditation, consider the small, everyday acts of kindness that bring peace and gratitude into the world.

Cannot Contain

Featuring music by Gungor, "Cannot Contain" is a reflection on the how humanity tries to contain God into a nice, clean box. For centuries humanity has built gr...

Parables: The Good Samaritan

In this dramatization, a young female hiker is injured and finds the homeless man she ran past is the one who offers her help.

James Grocho - Shine Your Light

We have been given the Light of God to share with others. Our light can shine on the truth that the darkness tries to hide. This will inspire and motivate your ...

Amy-Jill Levine: Christology

Amy-Jill Levine discusses how Jesus was both fully human and fully devine.

Amy-Jill Levine: Foot washing

Amy-Jill Levine discusses the significance of foot washing in the New Testament

Amy-Jill Levine: Hosanna

Amy-Jill Levine discusses the meaning of Hosanna

Black & White: Friendship 101

Authors Teesha Hadra and John Hambrick talk about what it means to form a real and authentic cross-racial friendship.

Black & White: Planks and Specks

In Matthew 7, Jesus teaches about "planks and specks." How does this come into our conversations about race in this country?

Amy-Jill Levine: Temple

Amy-Jill Levine discusses what happened during the incident at the Temple.

Amy-Jill Levine: Questioning

Amy-Jill Levine discusses what does it mean to question Jesus?

A Resurrection Shaped Life: Forgiveness

Bishop Jake Owensby shares we can learn about forgiveness through understanding the role of boundaries in letting go and how this can give us new compassion for...

Allies: Introduction

Rabbi Evan Moffic talks with Cedar Rapids Imams Taha Tawil and Hassan Selim about the importance of interfaith relationships.

Amy-Jill Levine: Table

Amy-Jill Levine discusses what it means to participate at the table.

Allies: Valuing Relationships Amid Tension

Rabbi Evan Moffic, Imam Taha Tawil, and Imam Hassan Selim discuss the importance of relationships during times of tension including major world and U.S. events....

Allies: Coming to America

Imam Hassan shares his personal story of living in Egypt, the U.K. and now the United States and the importance of a welcoming community to help in orientation ...

Black & White: Nudging the System

Authors Teesha and John Hambrick discuss how strong cross-racial relationships can help us to recognize and begin to combat the destructive systems of racism.

Allies: From Fear to Friendship

Rabbi Evan leads the group in talking around rising incidents of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and growing fear of the other. Imam Taha shares about the success ...

Allies: Standing with Others

Iman Hassan leads in a conversation about supporting and standing with other faith communities locally and nationally.

A Resurrection Shaped Life: Repentance

Bishop Jake Owensby shares a story about how his mother, a concentration camp survivor, taught him about forgiveness and understanding the role of boundaries in...

A Resurrection Shaped Life: Suffering

Bishop Jake Owensby talks about the misunderstanding of repentance as fixing ourselves as a means to be loved by God.

Muslims in the Midwest

Rabbi Evan Moffic tours the Mother Mosque and Islamic Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and learns about this vibrant Muslim community in middle America.

Allies: The Power of Personal Relationships

Rabbi Evan Moffic talks with Cedar Rapids Imams Taha Tawil and Hassan Selim about the power of personal relationships in building bridges among faith communitie...

Allies: How to Build Bridges

Rabbi Evan Moffic talks with Cedar Rapids Imams Taha Tawil and Hassan Selim about combatting anti-Semitism and Islamophobia through communities supporting each ...

When You Believe Music Video

Music video for When You Believe

Upon This Rock Music Video

Music video for Upon This Rock

The Week that Changed the World Music Video

Music video for The Week that Changed the World

Step By Step Music Video

Music video for Step By Step

Manger and Miracle Music Video

Music video for Manger and Miracle.

Let's Go Deep Blue Music Video

Music video for Let's Go Deep Blue

It's Morning All Over The World Music Video

Music video for It's Morning All Over The World.

Shining Through Music Video

Music video for Shining Through

Shining Through Alternative Music Video

A second music video for Shining Through

Rainbow Promise Music Video

Music video for Rainbow Promise.

I Am God's Voice Music Video

Music video for I Am God's Voice

God's Creation Music Video

Music video for God's Creation.

God Will Make You Strong Music Video

Music video for God Will Make You Strong.

God Chose Jesus Music Video

Music video for God Chose Jesus.

God Be With Us Music Video

Music video for God Be With Us.

Get Out The Word Music Video

Music video for Get Out The Word.

Anything Is Possible Music Video

Music video for Anything is Possible.

All About Love Music Video

Music video for All About Love

Every Step of The Way Music Video

Music video for Every Step of the Way.

Down To The River Music Video

Music video for Down To The River.

Blessings and Birthrights Music Video

Music video for Blessings and Birthrights.

Being Free Music Video

Music video for Being Free.

Whooosh - Prayer For a Place

Music video for Prayer For a Place

Whooosh - By Faith

Music video "By Faith" from the Whoosh VBS.

Whooosh - Jacob's Ladder

Music video for Jacob's Ladder

Whooosh - Living Stones

Music video for Living Stones

Rolling River Rampage - Rolling River Rampage Theme

Music video for the Rolling River Rampage Theme.

Rolling River Rampage - Zacchaeus (Wee Little Man)

Music video for Zacchaeus (Wee Little Man).

Rolling River Rampage - Overflowing

Music video for Overflowing.

Rolling River Rampage - I Will Be With You

Music video for I Will Be With You.

Rolling River Rampage - Streaming - You Got a Seat

Music video for You Got a Seat.

Rolling River Rampage - I Come to You

Music video for I Come to You.

Rolling River Rampage - I've Got a River of Life

Music video for I've Got a River of Life.

Rolling River Rampage - No Matter What Comes My Way

Music video for No Matter What Comes My Way.

Rolling River Rampage - Life with You

Music video for Life With You.

Rolling River Rampage - Here I Am

Music video for Here I Am.

Rolling River Rampage - Beautiful Ride (Preschool Song)

Music video for Beautiful Ride.

On Our Way to Mars and Beyond

Music video for On Our Way to Mars and Beyond

Movin' On

Music video for Movin' On

Even When The Lions Roar

Music video for Even When The Lions Roar

Love That Makes The World Go 'Round

Music video for Love That Makes The World Go 'Round

God Can Do

Music video for God Can Do

Safe Inside Your Love

Just A Little Bit

Music video for Just A Little Bit

We Thank You

Music for My Lord

Music video for Music for My Lord

ON the Street: How We Pray

Odyssey Networks took to the streets to find out how people pray and what motivates their prayers.

ON the Street: Immigration and Refugees

For the past year, we have seen an unprecedented mass migration of immigrants, asylum-seekers, and refugees. Odyssey asked people their opinions on how to best...

Racism is Genocide

Race, says The Rev. Dr. James Forbes, is used to define who is worthy of existence; and racism is genocide; and a slow process of extermination.

The Biblical Call To Welcome the Stranger

Dr. Eric D. Barreto (Assoc. Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary) and Dr. Jacqueline Hidalgo (Assoc. Professor of Latina/o Studies and Religion at Willia...

Being Church In the World

North Lawndale College Prep has a high percentage of high school students who face the challenges of housing instability and homelessness. These challenges ofte...

Habitat for Humanity: The Theology of the Hammer

One organization working to end homelessness is Habitat For Humanity NYC, the faith-based nonprofit organization that enlists volunteers to help rehabilitate ol...

Teresa Ghilarducci on Economic Inequality in America and Why it is a Faith Issue

Teresa Ghilarducci, Professor of Economics at New School for Social Research and author of When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot Against Pension and The Plan to Save Th...

Faith, Food Stamps and the Fight Against Hunger

Faith and political leaders united to call attention to the importance of the food stamp program, which may be at risk for cuts. For one week, clergy members an...

God's Little Acre: Feeding the Hungry

In the last four years, with only $80,000 and a team of volunteers, God's Little Acre, a farm in Surrey, BC, Canada has given away 420,000 pounds of produce to ...

Night Ministry Bus Delivery's Holistic Health

By bringing health services, supplies, food and services directly to the people who need help in their own communities,the Night Ministry Community Health Bus i...

A Bridge Through Troubled Waters: A Police Chaplain's Mission

Retired NYPD Chaplain Susan Johnson Cook speaks on being a bridge between police and communities in crisis and pain.

Walk with them: The God of Second Chances

Rev. Dr. Harold Dean Trulear, the National Director of Healing Communities, inspires congregations and faith leaders to live God's message of second chances.

Gifts Ungiven

Four years ago, a student from Ghana arrived at a small college with two large steamer trunks and even bigger hopes. Now, as he heads home for the last time, an...

Parables: The Great Banquet

In this dramatization, one woman's daily encounters turn into a gathering of fellowship.

Greener

A widowed father wants to sell his farm and cash out. What he doesn't realize is the value of what he has.

Parables: The Lost Son

In this dramatization, a successful young man struggles at the family's reception of his brother who has returned from prison.

The Scout

A baseball scout's lack of patience changes America's pastime forever.

With You

With You (I Feel Again) - reflects on how easy it is to be lonely in a crowd. Set to the platinum hit single "Feel Again" by One Republic (used by permission), ...

Justice

The hard work of justice for everyone is far from over. Use this motivational and inspiring mini-movie to challenge your community to open their eyes to the nee...

A Message to Deliver

A boy delivers a message to the mother of the school's biggest bully. What happens next changes his life forever.

Acts A - Be The Church

The Holy Spirit shows up. There is confusion. People speak in other languages. There is fear. They fight. They love. They are the church together. The book of A...

Judges A - A Merry-Go-Round

Moses led the Exodus from Egypt. Joshua walked around Jericho and into the land promised to Abraham. Which brings us to Judges, a merry-go-round of tribal leade...

Job A - Why?

"Why do the innocent suffer? The book of Job is what happens when a creative genius explores that question. The rich Job, a man of deep faith, loses everything ...

Matthew B - The Melodies of our Hearts

Matthew was formed by the Hebrew scriptures. When he tells us the good news of Jesus he uses the stories of his heart and of his people. He sings of the saving ...

Acts A - The Earliest Days of the Church

The book of Acts chronicles the earliest days of the church. It's in Acts that we find the dramatic story of Pentecost. The Holy Spirit descends upon the people...

Jeremiah A - There is No Peace

I am forsaken, abandoned at the end of all the paths of peace that were supposed to lead to me. You seek other lovers and the dreams of those dreamers tell lies...

Genesis A - The Book of Beginnings

Genesis, also known as the book of beginnings, is the epic collection of writings that connect the history of the small Hebrew-Jewish nation with the larger his...

Psalms A - 150 Different Songs

The Book of Psalms is a collection of 150 different songs, which function as prayers. The book of Psalms can be found in the Hebrew Bible or in the Christian Ol...

1 Corinthians A - Resurrection in Our Brokenness

Paul's first letter to the Corinthians encapsulates grace. Paul begins with the positive truth about God - who he is and his sovereignty - but then speaks hones...

Mark A - Damn Near Shakespeare

The Gospel of Mark is the oldest of all the gospels. I love it because it's written by a regular person. It's original language is full of grammatical errors an...

Isaiah B - God's Love is for Everybody

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in a land of deep darkness, on them light has shined. This is the good news according...

Genesis B - The Ultimate Good

For me, when I read the pages of Genesis, there I encounter the image of a God who gives us all the good news that despite the occasional horrors of human life ...

Joshua B - A More Liberative Christianity

The good news in Joshua does not lie within the story itself but how this story challenges Christians to confront the dangers lurking withinthe Bible. These dan...

The Bible - Some of It Even Happened

The Bible is a communal library, filled with harmony and dissonance, hope and lament, faith and doubt, questions and answers and more questions to those answers...

The New Testament - This Is The New Testament

The life and death of a revolutionary and the resurrection of a revolution: this is the New Testament. We see Jesus bringing good news to the poor, proclaiming ...

Revelation A - May It Be So

"In John's wild vision he sees Jesus dressed like Caesar, speaking to seven illegal churches. And the heavens are torn open and God is in his sacred court. Jesu...

1 Corinthians B - The Importance of the Body

If there's one thing about First Corinthians that calls us to the center of the gospel it's the importance of the body. The Corinthians envision a kind of spiri...

Isaiah A - The Most Significant Influence

Of all the prophets of the Hebrew scriptures, Isaiah is the one that most significantly influences the prophetic imagination of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the boo...

Acts B - The Same Holy Stream

In Acts, there's in-fighting among the Jesus followers about how big God's grace really is--does it really extend beyond the Jews-- even to the Gentiles? The Ap...

Hosea - God Did Not Come in Wrath

"The prophet Hosea offers us one of the boldest and most controversial metaphors for God in the Bible, controversial then and now. He compares God to a husband ...

Exodus B - A New Hope

People say the latest Star Wars movie is a retelling of the first. I'd say the same thing about the Gospels. That's why I love Exodus so much - it's A New Hope ...

1 Peter A - A Little Problematic

There's a lot of reasons to look at First Peter sideways - what's this about slaves obeying harsh masters because Jesus, or women not braiding hair because auth...

Joshua A - The Mythic Model

It begins with Joshua son of Nun being described according to the criteria of the Deuteronomist: meditating on the law of Moses day and night and refusing to tu...

Matthew A - The Gospel of Mountains

The Gospel of Matthew is the Gospel of Mountains. Jesus is tempted by the devil on a mountain, he preaches the beatitudes in a sermon on the mountain, he prays ...

James A - A Letter, A Warning, A Plea

What's the book of James? It's a letter to those who feel scattered, two-faced, pushed-down, or taken in by empty promises... It's a warning to succumb to these...

1 Peter B - If Only He Knew Paul Better

It may be possible to squint hard and see the good in First Peter, but I like to imagine is the stuff Peter said to Paul in the infamous tiff they had in Antioc...

Isaiah B - A Promise or a Threat

In chapter 7, Isaiah's prophecy comes in the form of a child - a son whose name has a double meaning: God with us. Is this a promise or a threat? It is a comfor...

Revelation B - Come Quickly

"The book of Revelation is not a crystal ball to the future. It is a mythopoetic vision of what is already happening. We face an apocalypse of our own making, w...

Hosea A - What Love is This?

Relational and marital imagery is used throughout scripture to depict the interaction between God and people. In Hosea we see the role of prophet and partner mi...

Mark B - Good New to the Community Organizer

The way Mark tells it, Jesus is a community organizer, Teaching principles that build and sustain powerful leaders and movements. Through repentance, we learn t...

1 Corinthians A - The Most Problematic Church

The Corinthian church is probably the most problematic church that we see in the whole New Testament, more problems than any other. But what lies at the heart? ...

Revelation B - Good News for the In-Betweeners

This is for the in-betweeners, living between everyday oppression and world peace, the now-is and the is-to-come, in that dry space where nothing is certain. Re...

Joel A - Gracious & Compassionate

Joel is one of the minor prophets. In it we find warnings for priests to put on sackcloth and lament. Typical of prophetic writings, there is alot of future ten...

Mark A - The Good News Goes Public

The Gospel of Mark reads like good news for Habakkuk's runner. The vision is made plain from his coming out of the river to his coming out of the stone tomb. An...

Joel B - The Power of Disruption

I'm concerned with a God who is capable of destruction but my favorite part of this text is the demand that sons and daughters shall prophecy. Old men shall see...

Isaiah A - These Two Worldviews

In Isaiah we see the coalescing of influences from both the histories of the Northern Kingdom of Ephraim and the Southern Kingdom of Judah. The heritage of the ...

Joshua B - A Severe Ethical Challenge

The book of Joshua is a severe ethical challenge, portraying as it does a religiously motivated campaign of genocidal conquest. It is a story that has too often...

Revelation A - Come, Lord Jesus

Revelation is about the New Testament's central conflict: the lordship of Christ versus the lordship of Caesar. In nine visions John describes a God whose power...

Job B - The Limits of Human Wisdom

Most people think that the book of Job is about why bad things happen to good people. And while that is the presenting problem the real theme of the book has mo...

Exodus A - A Newly Nomadic People

Moses is an Israelite. He was raised as an Egyptian prince, but fled after murdering an Egyptian who was beating an Israelite. He meets God in the from of a bur...

2 Peter A - Four Basic Takeaways

There's four basic takeaways in this letter: First, we are reminded that we have already been provided with everything needed to partake in the divine nature, t...

James B - Agents of a New Age

Sorry Reformers, but the distinction between faith and works is a false one. Faith is an active participation in the Reign of God, a tree firmly planted in the ...

The Old Testament - To Know Where You're Going

From its infamous "In the beginning" to Charlton Heston shouting "Let my people go!" to genealogies and genealogies and more genealogies, to poets and prophets ...

Romans B - We are God's Children

"The book of Romans in thirty seconds or less: the simple letter to the Jesus followers living in and around Rome of the first century was not intended to be th...

Revelation A - Stubborn Hope

The Revelation from Jesus Christ to everyone caught in the thicket of empire, persecution, and death; everyone who hopes for equality, plenty, and life: the tim...

Job A - He Decides to Serve God Anyway

Job, a great guy, loses everything. His friends say it's because of some secret sin but Job insists he's innocent and we the readers know that he is because we'...

Job B - Hard Questions

"I don't like easy answers to hard questions. For many, sin causes bad things to happen. That's their easy answer to the hard question, ""If God is good then wh...

Joshua A - A Dangerous Genocidal Text

The book of Joshua is a dangerous, genocidal text. The same God who liberates the enslaved Israelites from Egypt now calls them to become oppressors, to violent...

Genesis - Plotting Goodness Everywhere

It all begins in Genesis. God creates the world and it's all good: light, dark, land, sea, animals, plants, male, female, good, good, very good. But we humans l...

Hosea B - Who is Gomer?

Who is Gomer? By all accounts she was an eset zenunim, that is, one who acts like a harlot, ordered to marry Hosea so that Adonai can make a point. Does that bo...

Three Simple Rules

See Rueben Job's Three Simple Rules presented in moving text and graphics.

Every Good Gift: Promises Kept

In this short narrated meditation, consider the creative ways we use the gifts that God has given each of us to bring love and peace to others. God's love is de...

Evening Devotionals with Matt Rawle

Pastor and author Matt Rawle offer words of devotion, based around Jeremiah 29-32

Every Good Gift: Resting in Faith

In this short narrated meditation, consider how we find peace and rest through the knowledge of God's love and mercy.

The Beatitudes

Diverse individuals read The Beatitudes from the Common English Bible with additional footage of people depicting the qualities and struggles of this important ...

Every Good Gift: Greater Understanding

In this short, narrated meditation, focus on mindful living, finding joy and insight in daily life.

Evening Devotionals with Magrey deVega

Pastor Magrey deVega brings words of hope and encouragement during difficult times, taken from 1 Kings 17-19.

Every Good Gift: Good Stewards

In this short, narrated meditation, consider the small, everyday acts of kindness that bring peace and gratitude into the world.

Evening Devotionals with J.J. Warren

Author J.J. Warren offers words of encouragement during difficult times.

Evening Devotionals with Jennifer and Jim Cowart

Jennifer and Jim Cowart offer words of comfort and encouragement during difficult times.

Evening Devotionals with Tom Berlin

Pastor Tom Berlin presents a devotion of hope using the theme of light.

Evening Devotionals with Jennifer Cowart

Pastor Jennifer Cowart offers words of hope and encouragement in uncertain times.

Every Good Gift: Unspeakable Joy

In this short narrated meditation, consider the joy found in the beauty of the natural world and in the many small comforts of daily life.

Evening Devotionals with Rachel Billups

Author Rachel Billups offers words of encouragement, based around Genesis 16.