The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, September 27, 2026.

“God is calling us to learn to trust the indwelling spirits in our own soul. God is calling us to learn to obey the call of mutual love, to trust and obey in a different way. It is always okay to change and change again. In fact, it is the call of faith.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, September 20, 2026.

“This story of manna given in the wilderness, Jesus' parable of the generous vineyard owner, they call us to remember our own reliance on God. This is something that is easy to miss when we live in a world of enough.

“We are reliant on our own efforts. We are reliant on our neighbors, on our friends, and those are ways God gives provision to us. God gives enough to us. But sometimes, we forget that there is divine energy behind that enough. We think it is all down to us.

“These stories call us to remember our reliance on God, but they also call us to a reshaping of the world into a place where no one starves, where no one has too much, where everyone has the opportunity to rest, and where all minds are freed from that want, and that worry, to focus on living, on living a life God has given them.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, September 13, 2026.

“Starting right here in our own community, in our own families, in own neighborhood, in our own country, may we lead the way in forgiveness, and restoration, and repair.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on September 6, 2026.

“Loving one place in particular, no matter how ordinary or how small, paying attention to its life and changes over time, awakens us to the sacredness of all places, to the life of each place, both human and other than human. Loving one place in particular, paying attention to its life and changes over time, awakens us to the fragility of each place, the vulnerability of the whole system…

“Loving our own particular places, mine, yours, wherever they are and however they speak to you, knowing the sacredness of the whole web of creation, we must look open eyed and open hearted at the darkness of the news. We must look at it, be aware of it, but not stare into it. If you stare too long at the darkness, it will make you crazy, it will make you cross eyed, and it will make you what it is: cynical, hopeless, convinced of the inevitability of bad outcomes. The gospel of love calls us instead to stay rooted in that love, to stay rooted in our own sacred places.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, August 2, 2026.

“In this best and worst of times, we too have enough, and more than enough, to offer the compassion Jesus calls us to. In this time of inflation, sticker shock at the grocery store, high rents and a tightening job market burdens on food cupboards and feeding programs are at record highs. So may this story remind us that what we offer can be enough, that the Spirit will magnify our efforts, and that compassion and generosity expressed boldly and openly will beget more compassion and generosity.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, July 19, 2026.

“It may not be our responsibility to root out and tear down, but it is our responsibility to grow stronger, speak faithfully and boldly. It is the cost and joy of discipleship to send our energy out to those who are faltering, and to keep walking forward together in faith.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, July 12, 2026.

“By all means, we should examine our own lives for the aridness of a beaten path, for rocks of prejudice and entrenched thinking. We should watch out for the weeds of tending too much to our own wealth or position, or fixating too much on cultural fads. We should let go of anything that prevents us from being receptive to the seeds of God's word, to the seeds of love, and compassion, and justice.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, July 5, 2026.

“What I think progressive Christianity has to offer to this moment is the courage to call human errors by their many names: wounded-ness, unwillingness to see, oppression, the sin, the one sin, of not bothering to love. I think progressive Christianity has that to offer; calling things by their names.

“And I also think what progressive Christianity has to offer the world in this moment is forgiveness. Not the forgiveness that is transactional, not the forgiveness that says if you offer so many prayers and if you have so many right thoughts, you can offer those in exchange for God's acceptance. No. The good news that we have to offer is that forgiveness is transformational. The good news is that we are always, already loved by God. We are loved in companionship and compassion, and we can claim it, and we can extend it. We can belong to a weave of fabric made up of companionship and compassion.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, June 28, 2026

“We have all been on both sides of the door. We know that hospitality requires mutuality. Sooner or later, every one of us shows up at a door unexpectedly, unsure of who might be on the other side. whether they are trustworthy, and every one of us has needed to be welcomed as we are, without qualification. Accepted, and cared for.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, June 21, 2026.

“Who is the god of our envisioning? Does our God see us? Does your God see you? Does your God know you? Does your God love you?

Or does the God that you have in your imagination and the story of your life tell you that you are not enough? That the way you are made is somehow insufficient. Does your God cut off the possibility of your thriving and flourishing as who you were created to be?

Does your God call you to deny essential components of who you are? Does your God dwell with you in your sorrow and in your pain? And when God demands difficult things of you, like returning to a place of pain, will your God walk with you?

Who is the God that you know?”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, June 14, 2026.

“Across Christian history, there have been different ways of carrying the name of Jesus into the world. One looks like the disciples sent out in today's gospel [reading], with restoration, healing, hope, and love. The other looks suspiciously like empire, wearing the cross as its logo, and using Jesus as its mascot. There is a world of difference between followers of Jesus and followers of power who are using Jesus’ name…

“… Jesus is still sending people out, armed with courage, compassion, and the stubborn conviction that love wins. We are those people who are sent. We may be tempted to laugh in skepticism like Sarah, but from the deep wells of our tradition, we are reminded, again and again, that hospitality and compassion are what God sends to save us, and what God sends us out into the world, armed with. Just that, hospitality and compassion.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, June 7, 2026.

“These stories of faith that is humble enough to listen, audacious enough to act, seem to me to offer us an invitation to look around at where we are. Where we are as individuals in our own lives and in our life as a community, and ask, is there anything we need to step out from behind? Any metaphorical tax collectors booth that is part of a system of oppression, that we're caught up in, and may not even know it?”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on 5/31/2026.

“…may this wisdom from our tradition, the creativity that pauses to determine if what it has created is good and how it can be turned to good; and may the recognition of our nature as made from that interflow of friendship; may this wisdom ground us as we face the questions that AI brings. As AI appears in the tools we use at work and at home, in the algorithms that change what we see, and what our children see, and learn, and believe, may we stay rooted and grounded in love.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, May 24, 2026.

“In the spirit-formed community of the church, we are invited to pay attention to one another’s lives. Church is a school for paying attention to all the cultural forces that bear down on one another. And then, the cultural forces that bear down on our neighbors and on our world.

I wonder who might be just outside our church door, waiting and longing to be understood, longing to hear us speak in a dialect that makes them feel at home. Longing to be listened to and welcomed in that dialect. Together, let us pray for the humility and courage to risk for the sake of love, to be foolish for the sake of relating, to let other people’s reality be real, to harmonize.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, May 17, 2026.

“So in this moment, when it is the job of the church to call out the gross injustice and the depraved indifference that we see in the world, a world that's willing to starve people and bomb people, it is also part of our job to seek connection and love. This is part of the antidote to the division in the world. and to the depraved indifference. Part of the antidote is to seek and foster humanity in ourselves and human connection with as many other people as possible.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, May 3, 2026.

“We don’t know how our communities and national culture will be changed, but, we know, we do know, the way we are meant to stay on, the way of foot washing, the way of love. When we live in this way, loving one another, and continually expanding who we include as part of one another, we are connected to our longed for homes and past. We are connected to the place of abiding within the heart of God, both now, immediately, and in the life after this life. We are connected to one another in the one web of life, in the community of people seeking the way together.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, April 12, 2026.

“This Easter season, I'm praying that we, as individuals and as a church, will be as brave and generous as Jesus, telling the truth about the wounds we have received, and the wounds we have caused. Telling the story of the scars we bear and the scars for which we bear responsibility. At this moment, when the wider church, the body of Christ on earth, seems to be racked by the aggressive cancer of nationalism, we are called to love out loud with a fierce and tender love that leads to life; to see those scars, that illness for what it is, and to keep loving and creating. May we, like Thomas, be brave enough to ask all our questions. May we have faith in our questioning and in our believing.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, April 5, 2026.

“What will happen, though, when a ragtag bunch of resurrection believers offer testimony in response to state sanctioned death? What can happen when the dead get a chance to speak from beyond the veil, when a formerly dead man commissions his followers to speak on his behalf? Jesus is commissioning us to speak truth, to speak life on his behalf.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, March 29, 2026.

“This year, the price of empire, and our fear of it, may threaten to steal our alleluias from us. But the story of the whole week invites us to remain and not to give up our hosanna; to begin with hosanna, save us now. It invites us to cry out to God, to cry out for and with one another, to see the spirit in one another, to keep our voices fresh. To cry out in hope, to look clear eyed at the pain in the world, and to return again to hope, in the story of love that is stronger than death; stronger than the power of empire. Love that is profound enough to create and recreate and keep recreating the world.”

The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on March 22, 2026.

“As Ezekiel calls us to speak prophetically in places of exile and loss, Jesus calls us to find what is trapped in tombs, and wound in death cloths, and unbind them, and set them free…

“Resurrection is a group project, and it is our calling. Resurrection in this life, and into the next, is the promise of the gospel. So I pray that we may find the courage and the clarity to claim the promise of life and freedom; the courage and clarity to work together, to extend the promise; to speak, and vote, and act for the unbinding of each and every one of God’s children.”