Sunday’s Gospel story, in which Jesus calls the disciples to venture across the sea into the unknown, “leaves spaces that invite us, or require us, to get involved,” to bring ourselves to the story, preaches the Rev. Elizabeth Blunt.
“What must we do to sow seeds of peace that can grow into shelter in our times?” asks Mother Kristen in her Sunday sermon. Jesus wants us to expand our way of seeing so that our way of living can follow, she tells us.
Watch the highlight discussion between Bruni and the Rev. Phillip A. Jackson about how the U.S. got here and what it will take to break the hold of our grudges.
In a world rife with selfish ambition, Jesus invites us to a practice of spiritual discernment, preaches the Rev. Elizabeth Blunt, to learn a way of being that distinguishes between “things that are holy and life-giving and things that diminish and disintegrate.”
This summer, Father Phil Jackson encourages us to consider the stories we tell ourselves and to reclaim our Christian narrative: For God so loved the world. “God’s fundamental orientation towards all the world is love.”
NOVUS NY and Downtown Voices present the New York premiere of Reena Esmail’s Malhaar: A Requiem for Water, paired with Garth Neustadter’s Memory of Water, which will be performed by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. A malhar is an Indian raga designed to beckon the rain; Esmail’s ARequiem for Water captures musically the beauty and awe of water while contemplating the fear and despair that surround its loss. As water exists beyond all beginnings and ends, Memory of Water considers the consciousness of water and how it carries in its memory both the splendor and devastation of our world.
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Downtown Voices; NOVUS NY; featuring Sandbox Percussion and Shabnam Abedi, soprano; Stephen Sands and Melissa Attebury, conductors
On Visitation Sunday, Mother Beth shared her hope that “sometime, whether in this place or out in the world, you have experienced the awe of being suddenly in God’s presence. . . or felt a bit of the texture of heaven.”
