


Refugees & Weeping
Jesus was a refugee. Jesus IS a refugee (and their name is Jakelin Caal Maquin, Felipe Gomez Alonzo). A weeping mother refuses to be consoled. What if the truest thing we can say from this Scripture is that we too ought to be inconsolable in the face of the horrific?...
I Am From
Pastor Amy looks at those first 18 verses of Matthew that we usually skip over to get to the narrative. But that first list of begats tell a story of their own. They tell the story of who Jesus came from, especially the significant and unusual women in his family...
Roots for Windstorms
Here in Seattle, we’ve experienced an unusually windstormy couple of weeks, which makes an apt metaphor for our lives of gusty national politics, devastating news cycles, and the sturm & drang of December activities, expectations, and negotiations of awkward...