Keri Kimberly shares stories about her family and childhood, illustrating the impact community has on all of us. Every person, from the youngest to the oldest, has something to teach us, and we form an interconnected web. We never cease to need a community to offer us friendship, to serve as examples, and to offer us guidance from a unique perspective.

Bethany Lee shares that the word radical originated from the idea of a root. Radical is not always like the extremes of a pendulum or spectrum, but extreme, like, the tips of the roots at the very edges of the nervous system taking in what is needed. Bethany wondered, “where might I need to be that kind of radical now?”

Nathan Meckley shares a message about the woods he grew up around and how we come to love nature through paying attention and personal connection, and how this invites us to reflect on our relationship with creation and how we should live.

Mica Coffin shared a message about what tools or doorways have not been helpful or not helpful for her spiritual growth.

Nathan Meckley shares that “Mark doesn’t give us a classic happy ending, all tied up in a nice Easter bow.” The resurrection story continues to challenge everything we consider an ending. Is there anywhere in the world, is there anywhere in your life, that God’s redeeming work of love still needs to touch?

Nathan Meckley shares that when we follow the story of Jesus, we take hold of a different hope, a different revolution that doesn't arrive through power and might, but through the paradox of strength through weakness, through vulnerability, hardship, pain, loss, and yes, the surprise of resurrection — the love which cannot die.

Nathan Meckley shared a message about hunger and the MLK Jr quote: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere.” Right now, in the U.S., there is more than enough food to feed everyone. People go hungry not because of scarcity, but because human practices and policies designed and implemented by human beings go unchallenged and unchanged.

Nathan Meckley shares a message about comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. While offering comfort is usually welcomed, afflicting the comfortable can be dangerous and costly as seen in the example of Jesus. Yet we are still invited to embrace this calling fully. Image: Dooley (right) and Hennessy, by E. W. Kemble (1900), created by Finley Peter Dunne

Nathan Meckley shared a message he title: “Nathan's Random Thoughts on Showing Up in Spiritual Practice; Hope in Spiritual Practice, Revisited.” Because at this time in the world, and in many of our lives, don't we just need to always revisit what can possibly give us hope?

Nathan Meckley shares the story of Esther, Malachi and Haman concluding with the message that we may not choose the time in which we live, but we do discern how we live and who we will be.