Beatitudes Radio

Is it possible to have no enemies? Jesus taught us to “love your enemies,” but maybe it’s time to recast that appeal with a new and more relevant translation for today? What if instead we were to “ha…

Ever felt left out or found yourself relegated to the “third wheel?” Quite often the “odd one out” finds themself being leveraged to help the other two succeed. Throughout the ages within Christianit…

Hope is not something that is static. It is adaptable and always shifting. Similarly, the gospel narratives regarding hope are fluid and don’t always match. Nevertheless, it is through this messiness…

All of us have experienced a time of hardship and struggle, a time in which our spirits are low and brittle. The global pandemic of 2020 has equalized the playing field for all of us and left most of…

Ever find yourself in an awkward situation? A moment when your actions didn’t align with your heart? When the pressure is on to perform or behave in a prescribed way, it’s not always easy to remain t…

Our nation is divided. Divided by racism, by ideology and by party lines. Our recent election cycle has proven such. Although, you may think we’ve got the market cornered on division and polarization…

**THIS SERMON WAS RECORDED ON OCTOBER 6TH**  

Do not be anxious about anything. Anything. But wait! Isn’t it Election Sunday? And isn’t our nation just days from a major election? Sure, you’ve careful…

We all want to “fit in” and feel accepted. Think back to your early school yard experiences. No one wanted to be the last kid picked for foursquare or dodgeball. Although we may have blamed others fo…

What does your moral foundations profile look like? Elections offer us the perfect opportunity to reflect upon our morals and intuitive ethics that shape our narratives and virtues. While the culture…

What does your moral foundations profile look like? Elections offer us the perfect opportunity to reflect upon our morals and intuitive ethics that shape our narratives and virtues. While the culture…

What does your moral foundations profile look like? Elections offer us the perfect opportunity to reflect upon our morals and intuitive ethics that shape our narratives and virtues. While the culture…

What does your moral foundations profile look like? Elections offer us the perfect opportunity to reflect upon our morals and intuitive ethics that shape our narratives and virtues. While the culture…

Black Lives Matter. This often-divisive civil rights movement has reshaped the ways in which we practice justice for our black and brown brothers and sisters. Christianity, too, has had its fair shar…

What is “Fearless Sunday”? This is a Sunday dedicated to the openness and honesty of all things theological from the pulpit. Several of you submitted your questions surrounding issues of Christian th…

We don’t need no education. We don’t need no thought control. Conformity. Pink Floyd’s 1979 rock opera and film “The Wall” addresses the consequences of conformity through art and song. Founding memb…

All of us tend to think of ourselves as sensible and balanced with most of our good deeds outweighing the bad. Abraham, Christianity’s Old Testament patriarch, believed the same. However, in The Test…

Is it possible to make love real for another person, even when that person is deceased? For centuries, cultures have venerated the dead, especially one’s familial ancestors, out of a deep love and re…

Most Christians can agree that perhaps one of the most difficult Old Testament stories to understand, justify and share with the next generation is that of Abraham being asked by God to bind his son,…