"Connecting Conversations" - our weekly deep dive into the scripture for Sunday's worship service. Listen as Liz and Katherine read scripture together, ask it some questions, trip over the baffling parts, and try to understand all the possibilities the scripture holds for us.
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In this episode, Liz welcomes a new friend to the show, Cullen, to theoretically talk about the book of Hebrews. Instead, the nerd out on the origins of the Bible, strategies we use to read it, the search for the historical Jesus, and, in the end, why Hebrews is such an interesting book.
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14 Jul 2026
The bitterness cleanse
In this episode, Katherine and Liz talk about the link between our hearts and actions, why having a good attitude can be so hard, and times when bitterness and anger have felt like a good option.
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24 Jun 2026
Life's Hard, Eat the Brownie
In this episode, Katherine and Liz talk about the impact Purity Culture in their 90’s youth groups had on their growing up, what Jesus actually says about Purity, and why eating brownie’s is good, as long as you know “why” you are eating the brownie.
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17 Jun 2026
This Doesn't Make Any Sense
This week, Katherine and Liz talk about the places in their lives where blind spots seem to form and how they have found strategies to work with and around those spots.
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10 Jun 2026
Fire Control
This week, Katherine and Liz trip over their tongues, literally and figuratively. Why do we struggle so much with our speech and using our words in a way that is productive and helpful? And we consider what baggage other people’s words hold in our lives.
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1 Jun 2026
Fear and Excitement are Best Friends
In Matthew 28, the disciples and the religious authorities have some choices to make around how they will respond to this unbelievable (but not unprecedented) resurrection from the dead.
In this podcast, we hear Liz and Katherine wrestle with how are fear drives us, what the angels should have said instead of “Do Not Be Afraid” and why the disciples answered Jesus’ call in and through their fear, not in spite of it.
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21 May 2026
Can't Go Back Again
In Ezra 3, the Returned Exiles find themselves at the altar trying to recapture something that was lost years ago.
In this podcast, we hear Liz and Katherine wrestle with how our fear drives us, what choses this exiles could have made, and why the neighbors weren’t necessarily enemies.
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4 May 2026
Why do we want a king? - Episode 9
In 1 Samuel 8, the people of God are stuck in the in-between. They doubted the way God had planned for them to live would keep them safe and they coveted what their neighbors had - a king in whom they can place their trust.
In this podcast, we hear Liz and Katherine wrestle with this desire for a human to save us, how God’s response seems reasonable, and why God as parent is a metaphor which really hits home for us today!
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22 Apr 2026
On Rhythms and Rituals - Ep. 8
In Exodus 23, the people are learning what it means - on a practical level - to start living into the Ten Commandments.
In this episode, Katherine and Pastor Liz discover the blessings of rituals and commanded periods of rest and how those moments of pause can help us reconnect with our joy when life feel overwhelming and hard.
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8 Apr 2026
How Responsible are We for our Ancestors? - Ep. 7
Nehemiah returns to his ancestral homeland with the desire to restore it to its former glory. However, the situation on the ground in the promised land is more complicated than he anticipated.
In this episode, Katherine and Pastor Liz wrestle with the responsibilities which come with authority and privilege, the weight of legacies and decisions made in the past, and how we might have more productive conversations around change.
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25 Mar 2026
6. How does the crucifixion teach us to love?
As we hear the story of Jesus’s crucifixion, we wonder how we can hear the old story in a new way. We hear about the challenge this story places on our own ethical and moral choices in today’s culture and how Jesus’s example is to show a radical kind of love. And, we are reminded of how traditional interpretatons have led to anti-semitism.
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18 Mar 2026
Connection Conversation - John 18:28-40
As Jesus stands in front of Pilate, we hear how Jesus refused to play the game Pilate was trying to trap him in and we wonder what we can learn about how to handle conflict in our own lives.
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11 Mar 2026
What is Truth?
In today’s Connecting Conversation, we find ourselves in a room between two men with different motivations for what comes next. Pilate is interested in self-preservation and maintaining power, while Jesus is more concerned about his integrity.
How do we hear this story today?
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4 Mar 2026
CONNECTION CONVERSATIONS (EPISODE 3)
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25 Feb 2026
CONNECTING CONVERSATION (Episode 2)
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18 Feb 2026
Connection Conversations: Beginning the Journey (Episode 1)
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