The Parish Podcast

Eastertide: The Surprising Spirit (May 5, 2024)

The Holy Spirit falls on a household of unbaptized gentiles at Cornelius' house. This week, we reflect on what to make of the surprising Spirit, and the ever-enlarging sense the early Church was beginning to understand around who could be included in God's story. 

Eastertide: Practicing Resurrection in Community (April 7, 2024)

On a Family Sunday, Sarah Fetz speaks with the Stringer family, and we hear the background and practice of "storying," the unique way The Parish engages scripture in our kids spaces. 

Easter: A Better Word Births a Better World (March 31, 2024)

In all four gospels, it is the faithful women in the company of Jesus who are the first to bear witness to the resurrection. They are sent with simple instructions: Go and Tell. Yet what exactly is this good news of a whole new world that we are to tell? And in what posture are we to go?

Palm Sunday: Living All of Holy Week: Branches, Ashes, Oil (March 24, 2024)

On Palm Sunday, Jesus is greeted by cheering crowds. But this is just the beginning of Holy Week. Christ’s final week before the cross gives us a pattern for the seasons of our own lives - through praise, loss, and renewal.

A Community Update from Jordan

In this post, Jordan provides an important community update around the season of growth we find ourselves in as a church and asks members of the community to participate in an important survey.

Lent: The Community Grows (March 17, 2024)

In this podcast, Jordan reflects on the season of growth we find ourselves in as a church community. Every season of growing involves growing pains. Here we remember how the early church (Acts 6) responded to rapid growth by discerning their communal limits, grappling together with how to care well for all.

Lent: Carrying the Cross (March 3, 2024)

Central to the way of Jesus is his guidance to “deny yourself, take your cross and follow me," and John Ott begs the question, "What does this mean?"

Lent: The Cross of Me (February 25, 2024)

Lent invites us to seriously consider the way of Jesus, which involves a necessary suffering and taking up of the cross.

Lent: Entering the Season (February 18, 2024)

On the first Sunday of Lent, we hear the story of Christ in Mark 1 and grow in awareness of the Kingdom of Heaven in relation to Christ's baptism and His journey into and out of the wilderness.

Epiphany: Christ of Another Way (February 4, 2024)

We begin moving away from Epiphany and toward Lent. Sitting in that threshold space, Jordan summarizes the takeaways of Epiphany, which points us to follow the Christ of Another Way.