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DBCC is an open and affirming community of faith in the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. Church starts at 11:00. Donuts start before that.

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Update frequency: every 7 days
Episodes: 105
Years Active: 2022 - 2025

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Is This the Best We Can Do? (Mark 12:38-44)

First, like so many people since Tuesday, the church constantly needs to be asking, “Is this the best we can do?” Then, we need to advocate for a just economic system that protects the vulnerable and…

Thu 14 Nov 2024

A Pretty Good Place to Start (Mark 12:28-34)

Love, you see, requires activity. Love isn’t an abstraction; it’s a way of living with other people that takes their needs as seriously as we take our own. The way we treat those who are hungry, the …

Sun 10 Nov 2024

Revising Expectations (Mark 10:35-45)

Popular Christianity promises a Jesus who only wants to be your pal, a Jesus who doesn’t want you to be inconvenienced, a Jesus whose real concern is that all your biases are continually reconfirmed …

Sun 03 Nov 2024

A Radically Different World (Mark 10:2-16)

How do we stand with Jesus against a world that too often tramples the best interests of women and the needs of children, that regularly ignores the plight of the hungry, the houseless, the addicted,…

Sun 13 Oct 2024

The Little Ones (9:30-37)

Therefore, as Jesus embraced the child as a symbol of powerlessness and death, we’re called to embrace our own lack of power, relying on the love and grace of the most merciful parent of all. Moreove…

Tue 24 Sep 2024

Losing Your Life (Mark 8: 27-39)

Photo credit: Wikimedia.org We no longer have to wonder whether we have any responsibility for our brothers and sisters, those who can’t stand up any longer by themselves. We no longer need to ask wh…

Mon 16 Sep 2024

Irreconcilable Differences (James 2:1-10, 14-17)

So, requiring us to live lives that look like Jesus is a pretty tough thing to ask of us. But if I, who claim to follow Jesus, won’t live a life struggling to be faithful, how can I continue to call …

Mon 09 Sep 2024

Congruity (Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23)

And even after all this time, the church is often just as quick to erect barriers to keep people out, turning customs into dogma, human precepts into doctrine. Unfortunately, many people’s experience…

Mon 02 Sep 2024

What Will They See? (Ephesians 5:15-20)

In a world in which every detail has to be nailed down before we move forward, where every nickel has to be accounted for before we strike out, where every eventuality has to be covered, the notion t…

Mon 26 Aug 2024

When the World’s on Fire (Luke 12:49-56)

And as painful as it is, Jesus says that for the fire of transformation to be kindled—the fire of God’s change in the world—we have to speak the truth about our current mess and the new world God des…

Mon 19 Aug 2024

The Broom Tree (1 Kings 19:1-15a)

Elijah goes to God seeking relief, a remedy for the great weariness he feels in his bones. He wants God to change the world, but all God offers to do is change him. Presumably, being in God’s presenc…

Mon 12 Aug 2024

The Walls That Divide Us (Ephesians 2:11-22)

Translation: “Bad Wall” In the face of God, I see one who prefers to tear down walls rather than maintain them, the one who calls to us from near at hand rather than keeping us far off. In the face o…

Mon 22 Jul 2024

Being Weak (2 Cor. 12:2-10)

As long as we think that what we have, who we are, and what we’ve endured depend solely upon our initiative and the strength of our own determination and courage, we wind up flailing about, convinced…

Mon 22 Jul 2024

Finding Hope in the Midst of Failure (Mark 6:1-13)

But in the face of failure, Jesus isn’t waiting around. He’s already headed out to the villages to continue doing what God sent him to do. And he’s not content to do it alone. He sends his followers …

Mon 08 Jul 2024

If It Sounds Too Good to Be True... (Mark 5:21-43)

In the face of a scoffing world, Jesus demonstrates his faith in God’s willingness to snatch life from the jaws of death by ... acting faithfully. Jesus sees the woman and the young girl through the …

Fri 05 Jul 2024

The Economy of God (1 Samuel 15:34-16:13)

In the economy of God, the new creation holds a special place for the powerless, the stepped-on, and the least likely candidates to be social media influencers. In a strange and seemingly indefensibl…

Thu 27 Jun 2024

The Courage to Be Disliked (Mark 3:20-35)

Christianity, for too many people today, means “saving souls for Jesus” while often despising those same souls until they have the decency and good sense to become more like you. But start living lik…

Mon 10 Jun 2024

For the Common Good (1 Corinthians 12:3b-13

The body of Christ is principally concerned with embodying the kind of just community that announces the reign of God to a world that needs a great cosmic cleanup of the mess humans have made of thin…

Thu 06 Jun 2024

Protesting in Public (Mark 2:23-3:6)

Because if we take seriously the public testimony of the marginalized and the vulnerable, we have to come to terms with the fact that we’ve participated in systems that, by their very nature, protect…