Over 2,000 years ago, Jesus of Nazareth sought renewal: to renew the systems around him, and to bring renewal to his people. For the religious authorities in his community had decided to make allies with an oppressive force in order to safeguard their vested interest and far too many in his community were poor, marginalized, and downtrodden, left to the wayside, discarded. Perhaps these patterns sound familiar. Yet now, as then, flowers open from hard seeds. They open when the pressure builds and then they burst into color. So too can we be resurrected to hope and possibility of the renewing social vision Jesus sought to bring forth.

(ZOOM AND IN PERSON IN THE SANCTUARY)