This episode explores the death of St. Stephen. Stephen enrages the crowd gathered against him. They rush to kill him because he points the way to the Father through his love and service to the neighbor. Just as Jesus did.

Episode 3 is a reflection on our national Thanksgiving holiday and the start of the Advent Season on November 28, 2021. This year, year C in the three year lectionary brings us the words of the Prophet Jeremiah. Jeremiah relates to the people of Jerusalem, a people whose view of justice and righteousness has been torn asunder by the violence of the Babylonian Empire. During the Thanksgiving and Advent season, we are reminded of the immediacy of God's arrival. God's arrival will bring righteousness and justice to a people bereft of both. For Christians, the arrival of God's justice and wholeness is most clearly revealed in Jesus death on the cross. But if God's wholeness arrived with the cross, where is God's righteousness? For what, or to whom, ought we give thanks?

In part two of our introductory series on Re-Wild Worship we discuss the outcome of a Post-Contemporary Worship style. Eschewing the false dichotomy of traditional vs. contemporary worship, a post-contemporary reception of worship is about intentionally raising the awareness of the worshipers towards what God is already doing in the rupturing event of God’s own life, made available in Word and Sacrament. Re-Wild Worship leads towards a life of sacramental union and ecstatic eschatological asceticism- a life in service of the neighbor.

Aidan Kavanagh observes that efforts in late 20th century Christianity to create a mass-appeal church structure and personality has, unintentionally, domesticate the Lion of Judah. This episode is part one of a two part series approaching the re-wilding of worship. Part one introduces the denaturing of Christian practice from the dangerousness of a God who is on the move. Part two will offer a view of worship that does not seek to control God.