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Gallery - She Proclaims Mary declares victory for the people. She is ecstatic to proclaim the magnificence of God who "has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly, who has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty." But where is the evidence? As landlords raise rents beyond what people can afford, as a police officer rips a child from a woman sitting on the floor in a Brooklyn benefits office, as hundreds are laid off from jobs by General Motors, as immigrants who fled their homes and walked across Mexico to seek asylum wait in the rain for appointments that may take 4-6 months; where is our mighty God? The young peasant woman, Mary, was well-aware of the impact of grinding poverty in her life. So what is this victory that Mary proclaims? How did it change her life, and how can it change ours? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548443838644-QINAESSBAOJCUN3BJTBY/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - She Proclaims Mary declares victory for the people. She is ecstatic to proclaim the magnificence of God who "has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly, who has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty." But where is the evidence? As landlords raise rents beyond what people can afford, as a police officer rips a child from a woman sitting on the floor in a Brooklyn benefits office, as hundreds are laid off from jobs by General Motors, as immigrants who fled their homes and walked across Mexico to seek asylum wait in the rain for appointments that may take 4-6 months; where is our mighty God? The young peasant woman, Mary, was well-aware of the impact of grinding poverty in her life. So what is this victory that Mary proclaims? How did it change her life, and how can it change ours? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548443457538-7XVIXO46DKQLW35ABH23/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - She Ponders The Christmas story from Luke reminds us of the different kinds of messages we receive in our daily lives. An authoritarian edict brings hardship to Mary and Joseph's lives, but does not block God's movement. Cultural judgments carry shame and marginalization. Mary navigates the world she's in and finds ways to survive it. She also resists by focusing her mind on a message of spiritual liberation. The message of unknown shepherds inspires her heart: Glory to God and peace on earth! What messages do you receive on any given day? How do we find, meditate upon, treasure and ponder the words of spiritual liberation? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548449502731-REZ21YA3PF2K5QY56R3Q/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Woke, Awakening & Beloved: Building Abundant Community Acts 4 paints an inspiring picture of faith community sharing abundance so that "there was not a needy person among them." How do we move in that direction? We cannot be naive to the forces of oppression nor the costs of liberation. We will want to awaken to inner strength and deep faith, allowing ourselves to love and be loved. Which of these is hardest for you? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548894407660-9N2NXGG6SYIGPKDM4SJ4/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - The Gift and Practice of Abundance How do we receive the abundance of God, and what difference does it make in our lives? This is abundance that comes to us in the midst of our struggles to pay our bills, when we're physically and emotionally depleted, when we're not feeling hopeful or confident. This is not the individual wealth promised by the Prosperity Gospel. Rather, it is a communal experience of the material, emotional and spiritual resources that make our lives abundant. How do we receive the abundance of God and what difference does it make in our lives? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548895549021-6QF4HAZQQAJ9D3YKZ44I/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - The Treachery of Rulers: Returning Our Allegiance to God How did you feel about the recent election results? There are reasons to celebrate and some ongoing concerns. This Sunday, we will probe deeper issues around rulers. The Scripture story from II Samuel speaks of a transition moment in history moving from localized rule to investing vast power in a king. Samuel warns them about the dire consequences of investing so much power in the hands of a few individuals. What are ways we can build shared power and responsibility and keep our allegiance focused on God? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548601195614-I3R5PVXDRE5AMIDAJM63/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - JUBILEE: A Call to Restore the Earth and Human Community For many of us, finances often feel more scarce than abundant. Monthly bills are overwhelming enough, when will we ever get to that debt? And yet, we are created by a generous God to live abundantly. So where's the disconnect? Society does not operate according to God's Divine Economy of Abundance. While the rich get richer, the middle and working classes are awash in debt and the poor struggle just to survive. How can we live God's abundance in a society of greed-driven scarcity? This Sunday we launch a new series on Generosity Based Abundance. We begin this sermon with JUBILEE: A Call to Restore the Earth and Human Community. Not only has God bestowed the earth with overflowing abundance, but the scriptures also teach principles for distributing the wealth and caring for the earth. Even in the midst of scarcity, we are invited and called to be people of abundance. Where are you encountering the abundance of God? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548452885717-MMVFQ3SY9FT08U1H7HGX/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - The Gospel of Mary: BECOMING FULLY HUMAN Faith community is an opportunity for us to be transformed by becoming accountable to the good news of the realm of God. Mary’s gospel shows us how messy and difficult that can be. Andrew and Peter try to undermine Mary’s leadership because she is a woman. But Mary and then Levi confront them powerfully, calling the faith community back to the liberation of God’s realm. How are we being transformed? What is our next step? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548453165608-BALIPMVBXCBRN6EO8T6X/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Gospel of Mary: "Do Not Be Deceived" Deception in our society is highly sophisticated and dangerous. In the gospel of Mary, Jesus says, "This is why you become sick and die, for you love what deceives you." If we are deceived, how will we become aware? This Sunday we will reflect together on ways we are manipulated into embracing that which is harmful to us and deepen our connection to the Good, which "belongs to every nature." In what ways are we being deceived? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548453471830-VPL06MAZXCZWS126H2WC/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - The Gospel of Mary Could it be that Jesus actually favored Mary Magdalene over Peter to lead the early church? Hidden from the church for hundreds of years, the Gospel of Mary teaches that “the good news is not in escaping one’s human identity but in embracing it” (Taussig, Hal, A New New Testament, p. 218). The New Orleans Council of biblical scholars studying the importance of newly discovered Christian scriptures gave the Gospel of Mary its highest number of votes for authenticity. They see it as “crucial for understanding Christianity’s beginnings and meanings for today” (Taussig, Hal, A New New Testament, p. 217). In addition to offering a new angle on the teachings of Jesus, Mary’s gospel also opens a window into conversations about women’s leadership in the early church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548453850147-H8WI9OO1WDT592ZJMFRY/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Faith is a Conversation about Overcoming Fear Our scripture story for this sermon engages us in a faith conversation about overcoming fear. While fear is often overwhelming, our faith calls us into action that moves us beyond our fear. We can acknowledge that fear is real, that it is a useful emotion that seeks to protect us from harm. But fear can also paralyze us from taking the risks we need to take. In this sermon, we meditate on how to engage our fear — to talk to our fear to determine what is there to protect us and what is actually paralyzing us; to reach out to community so we aren’t alone and isolated in our fear; and finally, to grow in our trust in God who is a source of power and grace to overcome fear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548454100037-81N7CYDQ3KFXU9NDO8UG/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Faith is a Conversation about Change The world is constantly changing. In our anxiety, we often resist. Surely many changes can be cause for concern. But what are the possibilities in our changing world? Are we willing to enter the change conversation with an open mind? Revelation 21 offers this intriguing promise: See, the home of God is among mortals...(God) will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away. And the one seated on the throne said, 'See, I am making all things new.' This is a faith statement that can transform the way we engage with the changes in our lives. We may feel more comfortable with what is familiar. Comfort is nice, but curiosity is holy. What are the possibilities that you're curious about? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548455838666-VKPWFEMF7Y068KFSI5IE/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Faith is a Conversation about Possibilities One of the hallmarks of this society is the persistent message that we don’t measure up. The Ephesians passage for this sermon is a relentless ode to the greatness of the Divine Spirit dwelling within us— the power that engages our unique gifts for the healing and transformation of the world. In this sermon, we seek to realign ourselves with this divine algorithm. When are we most aware of the divine in us? How are we encouraging this connection and experiencing the glory beyond what we can even ask or imagine? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548456079160-XFL7XAFOI37B0Z5J21TC/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Faith is a Conversation Traditional Christianity, including the Church, have often presented faith as doctrine that you must simply accept and believe. The Scriptures, however, tell stories from many points of view. For example, while the priests were often adamant about the protocol that must be followed for maintaining clarity and cohesion, the Biblical prophets have a long tradition of challenging the priests around what it truly means to be faithful. Faith is a conversation founded on the steadfast love of God for all of who we are. This love offers us the freedom to search diligently for what is true, life-giving and liberating. What concerns, hopes and questions do you bring to the conversation? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548456355561-JD8DWRMBY4T3538JMGDA/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Who Are We? What do you seek in community? It's not easy to build community. Jesus teaches community as paradox: "Those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the Gospel, will save it." —Mark 8:35. Building community is central to our mission. Authentic faith community transforms our lives individually and collectively. But it takes work, patience, persistence, and grace. What do you seek in community? What do you have to offer? Please join us Sunday as we build community together. All of our voices are needed and welcome at the table. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548456524932-BJABSN2UDI5XYFL9I6TQ/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Who is Jesus Christ? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548456799081-YRN3I6BRG5MY2CMK91ZA/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Who Am I? Understanding who you are is profoundly valuable, but also quite challenging. You may carry the voices of parents and peers telling you who they want you to be. Business corporations spend billions to shape your identity as consumer. Your employer may want you to understand your identity (and your time) solely in terms of your role in serving the organization you work for. All this, on top of the various ways society classifies and oppresses people based on race, gender, nationality, age, sexuality, ability; and the list goes on. Who are you as a unique creation of God, made with incomparable gifts and desires? How do we understand ourselves in relation to our purpose? How do grace and forgiveness free us to be who we are? Who am I? is the question for this week. Ancestry, culture and history set an important and complex context. Pastor Doug will share some observations from a recent trip to Ireland to learn more about his ancestry. In addition, the gospel story from Mark 8 makes clear that we also make choices within this context. Jesus identifies himself with the tradition of the prophets, who embrace some ancestral traditions and challenge others. Who are you and what do you stand for? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1549905472319-D3ZMRN8OM7YAJTVW8KZH/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Self-Care in Difficult Times Could you use some care? Join us for a time of communal reflection on who and how we're being called to be in the midst of struggle. What could care look like? What does our relationship with God have to do with our care? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548456995835-3F1J36B4LEV4RQF7XM2D/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Free to Be Me When Jesus returns to his hometown charged with the Holy Spirit and teaching with a new authority, his people are offended by who he has become. “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary?” (Mark 6:3) What is keeping you bound to who you used to be? How can we get free enough to become who God is calling us to be? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1549905913058-E24PDSFKV22BRPP77ZM5/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Sleeping through the Apocalypse In Mark 14, Jesus asks the disciples to stay awake with him in Gethsemane because he knows he is about to be killed and wants support. He has a very simple request: "stay here, and keep awake with me." Try as they may, the disciples can't deliver on Jesus' request. Three times he asks them to stay awake, and three times he finds them asleep. These friends of Jesus, who'd been with him through everything, could not show up when he needed them most. They knew what he was asking them to do, but it was too hard or too painful to stay awake. In what ways are we sleeping? In what ways are we awake but refusing to get out of bed? In what ways are people not staying awake for us? What will it take to truly wake up? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548600019297-F1H83YVY25XU2SFJXMZ6/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - God in Our Calling "Where is God?" has been our question for July. In this sermon, we explore the special ways God shows up in our gifts, passions, and calling. In I Corinthians 12, Paul teaches that God creates and activates unique gifts in each of us. Our gifts and passions are a central part of who we are. Some gifts are more appreciated and better compensated in our society than others. We may get caught up in comparing our gifts with someone else’s. And sometimes it’s hard to devote a lot of energy to using our gifts when have to do other things to pay our bills. But this sermon examines how the Spirit shows up in our calling. Together, we'll explore the power of finding God in our gifts. We'll open ourselves to being who we are and doing what we can to use our gifts for the common good. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548600426389-KXJUFO9JA9EF4YMMWGQH/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - God in the Borderlands The current immigration debate assumes that U.S. citizens have more rights than recent immigrants. The witness of the Christian faith, on the other hand, proclaims that all people have equal rights wherever they are. The Christian response to migration is hospitality and justice. Gloria Anzaldua describes the borderlands as "physically present wherever two or more cultures edge each other, where people of different races occupy the same territory." For Anzaldua, the border "es una herida abierta [an open wound] where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country—a border culture." For Anzaldua, "the borderlands is a place—connected to the international boundary—and a process—the interaction of races and cultures."* Immigration poses religious and theological questions for Christians about how to "welcome the stranger" and challenges congregations to rise up to meet the needs of immigrants and refugees in their midst. How is our faith calling us to respond to the current crisis faced by immigrants? *Sarah Azaransky, Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands, pg. 9 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1550263822730-KK090TWCQKVRATXDFW7A/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Where is God? Where is God when tragedy strikes? Where is God in the midst of evil? Where is God when a relationship comes to a painful end? Where is God in the midst of challenge? There aren't simple or easy answers to these questions. Our text for this week describes the story of John the Baptist, who cries out in the wilderness, "Prepare the way of the Lord!" John does not prepare the way of the Lord by setting up comfortable accommodations or making an official announcement in the town plaza. He doesn't prepare the way by gathering the most important people in town for an important conversation or lavish feast. No—John the Baptist prepares the way of the Lord by crying out in the wilderness. It is the wilderness that must be alerted to Jesus' coming, that must prepare the paths, be informed that while John has baptized us with water, Jesus will baptize us with the Holy Spirit. Our hearts are crying out in the wilderness. Our borough is crying out in the wilderness. Communities across the world are crying out in the wilderness. Are we also preparing the way of the Lord? Are we preparing the way for liberation? What does this moment ask of us as people of faith? What does it mean that God is coming? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548602358791-NJV3PITVE9TVMS5HJCZU/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Queer Liberation Month 2018 - This Is Us: Confronting Injustice In this sermon, we welcome guest preacher Candace Simpson to New Day Church as we continue our Queer Liberation Series with “This is Us: Confronting Injustice." Candace will preach from the Gospel according to John, where we are encouraged not to write new commandments, but to honor the one we have had from the beginning: "let us love one another...this is the commandment just as you have heard it from the beginning—you must walk in it." What does this passage have to say to us in this particular moment? What do we have to say to it? Candace Simpson is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary and works with the Seminar Program of the United Methodist Women. She is also the site coordinator of the Concord Freedom School, a literacy-based social justice education program for children in Bedford-Stuyvesant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548086819541-8MU9CPPTZXLGXFNFUCGX/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Queer Liberation Month 2018 - This Is Us: Crossing Boundaries In this sermon, we welcome guest preacher Tabatha Holley to New Day Church as we continue our Queer Liberation Series with “This is Us: Crossing Boundaries." In the story of the unnamed Samaritan woman in John 4, we get a vision of how crossing boundaries can lead to radical love and hospitality when we challenge ourselves to see beyond the limits of our prejudices and assumptions. Relegated to the margins of her society, this woman dares to question and advocate for the resources she has been denied. In doing so creates Christ consciousness that had not existed before in her community and offers insight into strategic ways to organize across racial, class, and political party lines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1549906464992-2DX21M49RBP3YJUDMC48/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Queer Liberation Month 2018 - This Is Us: Stories of Queer Pride & Liberation For every kid bullied for being gender non-conforming we say: This is us! For all LGBT immigrants that hide in the shadows, we say: This is us! For those shunned by church we say: This is us! Queer love is a hated love because it is a force that demands all of us take off our masks and live life out loud. And in the face of challenges from family, political establishments and even church, Queer love becomes pride and a declaration: This is us! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1549140236217-LK3BDX5P8CYCFRXWJWIT/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Stories of Growing in Faith Testimonies from our most recent Growing in Faith 201 class: "The question of 'Who Am I' is terrifying." "Becoming more rooted in my spirituality is stirring up my gifts." This is the paradox of faith we want to share: fear in facing these deep questions of who we are and trust in sharing vulnerably with one another. In this sermon, we hear how Jessica, Julie, Ben, Nilbia, Kelly and Teresa found strength in facing the challenges of faith together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547079704015-9FY293BRWYPJKMMKDOI4/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Telling Your Story It is an authentic and powerful act to simply give witness to the healing and life-transformation that we have experienced. And that’s the essence of what Jesus is inviting us to do. What story do you want to share? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547079851262-QAQONU6Y6AQBTHV8X79A/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - The Spirit is a Healing Balm and a Catalyst This Sunday we celebrate Pentecost, the day that bursts through the boundaries of language, nationality, and race. When the Holy Spirit came like the rush of a mighty wind, people from every nation heard one another speaking their own language. We could use a day like this in the face of ongoing violence against Palestinians, people of color, and immigrants —against anyone the principalities and powers deem "other." In the words of theologian, Dr. Keri Day, In our social and political moment, we need Pentecost. Division, hatred, and pain mark our nation...And people feel a sense of helplessness...We need a miracle. The joy of Pentecost is that it gives us a vision and hope for a community made possible through the work of the Spirit. This miracle involves being open to the shocking and surprising ways of the Spirit, which empowers us to reach across differences in order to experience radical and insurgent communions. The Holy Spirit is a healing balm and a catalyst inspiring us to transform the world around us. Will you move forward in fear, or in faith? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545245747443-HMLT1O9Q4QUHXQOVKMRP/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - The Prayer That Jesus Taught: Forgiveness The disciples observed the power in Jesus' prayer life, and asked him to teach them to pray. What he offered was a prayer that was centrally concerned with forgiveness. Its focus was both on receiving the forgiveness of God, as well as forgiving others who have harmed us. In this sermon, we explored what forgiveness is and what it is not. We looked at the power of letting go, and the continued importance of maintaining boundaries of dignity and respect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1550264415713-HK71VAPHN98J17GTBYAS/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - The Prayer That Jesus Taught In this sermon, we explore the meaning and power of the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray. This prayer, often referred to as the Lord's Prayer, is healing and transforming. It grounds and connects us with what God is doing in our midst. It reminds us of the holiness of God, and of our dependence on God's provision. And it reminds us to be in right relation with ourselves and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547587875957-64KLMXT84VD3FD66EY57/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Honoring Earth Day In this sermon by Community of the Word preacher Nora Asedillo Cunningham, we honor Earth Day, where we remember and honor our sacred relationship to Creation. Our present environmental crisis isn't only material. It is also deeply spiritual. And although the Christian tradition and the Biblical text contains several teachings on the importance of being in sacred relation with Creation, modern capitalist culture has encouraged exploitation, disregard, and neglect. We have become alienated from the land. And this has bred alienation from our very selves. In this sermon, we invite you to return. We invite you to remember, and to restore this relationship with the wisdom and fundamental sacredness of the Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547588344078-58VOY4AOW2X9XNKSHT7V/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Where Are You Storing Up Treasures? In this week's Scripture, Jesus instructs us not to "store up treasures on earth," but to "store up treasures in heaven" because "where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Why does your heart follow your treasure? It seems it would be the other way around, that you would follow your heart in seeking your treasure. Why is treasure in heaven supposedly better than the material treasure we need and that many people desire? And what is treasure in heaven, anyway? Is Jesus referring to good deeds, justice, truth? These are very abstract compared to a comfortable sofa in a warm apartment. In this passage, Jesus teaches us that that it is in fact where our treasure is that our heart will also be. What does he mean? And where is your treasure? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548084102328-GMAI92L4G9EL0P44V0D2/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Grieving, Comfort, and the Paradox of Faith Faith often challenges our rational mind. This sermon begins series where we read through Matthew 5-10 and meditate on the Paradox of Faith. We focus particularly on grief and comfort. After the dying and rising of Easter, we enter into the mystery of grieving. We are also open to the hope of comfort and reconnection. As we prepare for worship, we invite you to meditate on your own grieving. Who is the person that you miss? Have you encountered God in the grieving process? We will also consider ways we can be with one another in our grief. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547589020377-H17LZVXKKGOKVOSOJ2A8/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Easter, the Magnum Opus of Love It's hard to believe what love can do. The ministry and life of Jesus ended in failure—but Mary, Mary, and Salome don't give up. Their love opens a bridge to a triumph that's hard to imagine. How do we respond to the possibility that Easter offers? What is this work of Love? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548604711435-LWQ9SO8G81W1P34GXVRN/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - A Passion for the Earth The land mourns all around us—hurricanes, wildfires, landslides. As we face this devastation, what kind of faith are we called to build? How do rise to meet a mourning Earth, recover our love for and remember our place in Creation? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547763602399-GKBJC72WU9P0AY3A67BY/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Praise God...all you peoples! Life is tough, and sometimes overwhelming. We come across people and situations that are really problematic. It's hard not to get cynical. At the same time, life is also good and deeply meaningful. We are connected with an awesome God who has created a magnificent world in which we are living. This week we're going to explore the power of praise, even in a difficult times. What is your experience of praising our Creator? How does praise impact your relationship with God, with yourself, and with the world around us? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1550264724546-GEVIJ1FRJ62GX9ZYVN23/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Prophetic Imagination https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548084700891-Z7C0EERGEZDQW3BK0Q6A/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - A God Who Is Free Do you ever feel stuck? Burdened by the weight of life's heavy yoke? Do you want to get free? In our Scripture reading for this sermon, Moses is struggling with anxiety, stuck in habits that aren't working for him, and working for a job he doesn't like. But then he encounters a God who is Free. The God who says, “I AM WHO I AM.” (Yes, in all caps! check Exodus 3:14). Enjoy this sermon—together, we'll focus on finding freedom in a God who is free. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547761825553-UDS09PPR4N8U47RBK3E7/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Reigniting Our Passion for God Do you ever feel the passion draining out of your soul? I’m not just talking about feeling tired, I’m talking about losing the thrill of living. In this sermon, Pastor Doug Cunningham talks about reclaiming passion. To begin our journey, we'll meditate on our love for God. Throughout the centuries, Christians have rekindled their passion for God during the 40 days of Lent in preparation for the great festival of Easter which this year will be on April 1. We launched 40 Days of Passion at a special Ash Wednesday gathering on February 14, 2018. This sermon begins the process by laying out the possibilities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547762210577-M2X725KWN27MZMIYA016/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - She Was Adorned for Herself: Paradise, and All the Voices Required to See it This sermon concludes our series on the book of Revelation with a prophetic vision of a New Heaven and a New Earth. John describes the holy city as coming down out of heaven like "a beautiful bride prepared for her husband." What John doesn't know is that the holy city—paradise, which is God's promise to us—is actually not adorned for her husband. Women's voices, often erased and obscured in the biblical canon, are needed for proper understanding of God's truth. In this sermon, Pastor Lisa reflects on God's promise of paradise in the midst of persecution and violence. It is simultaneously a heavenly and earthly paradise, and after Christianity was co-opted by Emperor Contantine, we haven't heard much about it. But the promise of paradise is central to our faith. And we are called to create it and live more deeply into it, every time we gather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545165331140-OGVRNUB3K6R7HJJD51HC/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - God's Inbreaking and a Subversive Faith This Sunday, we continue our series on the book of Revelation with the call to "come out of Babylon" in Revelations 18. Pastor Alexis Francisco reflects on the disconnection caused by the violence of empire, and the call to a subversive faith that re-members the wisdom of our ancestors as we live our lives as seeds of the futures we long for. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57620703579fb39e105465bf/5c129ff90e2e725d32534899/5c12a00a0ebbe819f9a1ba96/1544724490360/ All Sermons - Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547762322568-0KLXW1D1PHCOJMHP1075/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - The Beast and the Lamb Do you tend to underestimate both the evil we face, as well as the possibilities before us? In the Scripture lesson from Revelations this week, John names the Beast and talks about its characteristics. This opens the way to a vision of the Lamb and the 144,000 who are rising to transform our lives and the world. Why 144,000? What does it mean to let go of the mark of the Beast and take on instead the way of the Lamb? The ways of the world can get us down. But do we get that the possibilities far outweigh the obstacles? Who are we called to be? What can we do together if we believe? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547762501779-PSV7BZQWM6SDG8YGCUUX/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Hot Worship In the words of Pastor Doug, "It may be cold outside but it's going to be sizzling at New Day this Sunday morning!" God is not having "lukewarm." In fact, our Scripture passage for this Sunday warns: "I know your works; you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were either cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit you out of my mouth." Revelation urges us to "buy gold refined by fire... [and] anoint our eyes so we can see." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1546365611998-51PVLDRVYBU3UAIPXUOF/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Fear, Faith and Fatherhood: The Story of Joseph We all have moments of fear in our lives: fear of loss, change, or pain. While we probably can't eliminate fear completely, we can choose to meet it with faith, which in turn can inspire courage. In the sermon, Fear, Faith and Fatherhood, Rodney Lopez reflects on balancing fear and faith through the lens of his experience as a father, while commenting on parental fear in the story of a young Jesus in Luke 2:41-52. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547762641395-OZ4MNK5JCT95M2NJR5OX/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Good News of a Great Joy In this sermon, we celebrate good news of a great joy, which shall be for all people! This is news that acknowledges the hardship we face and yet opens a world-transforming, power-disrupting, almighty and yet deeply vulnerable Way for joy. Christmas is the unexpected inbreaking of divine presence and joy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545245866705-7H1T32Z9AVILDYKDJ6MI/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Angels in Our Midst: Taking the Risk When you have a hard decision to make, where do you find support to take a risk and follow your heart? This week's gospel story tells the story of Joseph deciding to leave Mary when he found out she was pregnant and knew he was not the father. When an angel speaks to him in a dream, however, he is instructed to confront his fear, take Mary as his wife, and care for this new child who is "from the Holy Spirit." This week we'll reflect on the ways angels call us into risk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547762816893-MA43VPI78C1S1TNX4E15/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Out of the Ordinary How are you feeling as Christmas approaches? This festive family season can intensify feelings of loneliness or missing someone. The pressure to spend on gifts can bring up money anxiety. But when we move into the gospel story, we see that the Christmas angel meets us where we are. In this week’s story, the angel Gabriel meets Mary on the streets. The following week, a host of angels meet some shepherds at their workplace. The invitation of Christmas is to look deep into who and what is being born. What is being born in you and among us? It's easy to fixate on what’s dying, like a relationship, the planet, democracy, and human decency. Christmas, however, is about what and who is being born: courage, possibility, faith community, love, and purpose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545245981334-PU9ROUV3WKI52YBX414W/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Angels in Our Midst: Strangers and Angels The mystery of Christmas connects people on the margins with the glorious divine. In the Christmas story, God is born to unmarried parents and laid in an animal trough in a barn. This birth inspires a heavenly chorus of angels to sing Glory to God to shepherds who are on the night shift out in a field. What does this story reveal about God? What does this story reveal about angels? Do we experience angels in the midst of our daily lives? The word angel, which comes from "angelos," is the Greek word for "messenger." Godly insight may come from the most unlikely places. Together, we'll attune our hearts to seek and find angels in the Bronx, angels in our homes — angels everywhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545246029716-8MYVW5UEKJO7SASL9T9S/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Creating Possibilities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545246113303-DEPYQEJ9R6B65ISU6QYD/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Resilience: How We Recover and Transform Healthy community means no one is less, no one is dispensable. Can we build community in which conflict doesn't mean demeaning or excluding people, but rather is a healthy part of growing together? What boundaries must be maintained to achieve such a task? Harassment, abuse and assaults against women are in the news, but Hollywood and government are not the only oppressive and unhealthy environments. Harassment is rampant in work places, schools, the subway and even in the home. The church is notorious for justifying and supporting the circumstances that lead to injustice and abuse. According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), 2016 was the most violent year on record for hate violence related homicides of LGBTQ and HIV affected people. The teaching of Jesus is sharp and bold in its call for the end not only of abusive acts, but also for the end of thoughts, words and images that help maintain a culture of abuse. We must address our wounds.This work is messy, difficult, vulnerable, and critical to our survival. Healing lies on the other side. The work requires dialogue, vulnerability, and accountability. We hope you will join in the conversation about how we can build a healthy community of gender justice, healing and transformation together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545246162936-S6T1CKSF1C9MTLXBS118/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Nevertheless, She Persisted In this sermon, we hear of a widow who is trying to get justice from "a judge who neither fears God nor has respect for people." Have you ever been in a situation that didn't seem to have a solution? This sermon also continues our sermon series on adrienne maree brown’s new text, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. In this week's chapter, brown suggests that the pathway to real breakthrough is "nonlinear." That means it may not unfold in one clear path, step by step. Instead, real change comes in "cycles, convergences, explosions." A setback is simply part of the learning. Join us: Together we'll learn from She Who Persisted, remembering that God is with us. Our own "cycles, convergences" and "explosions" are only taking us deeper into our purpose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548085480843-TXLK8RQ8LX9Q8WFLAXTC/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Finding a Way: When Everything Changes Change is a given. Sometimes it's overwhelming. How do you respond? This Sunday the conversation between the faith teaching of Jesus and the book Emergent Strategies by Adrienne Maree Brown gets to where the rubber meets the road. It's great when all goes according to plan. But what about when things fall apart? This Sunday we will explore intentional adaptation. What obstacles are you facing? How do we find another way and keep moving forward? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1550204299206-9XQD41DQEWI9DVKZR69N/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - We Need Each Other In Luke 6:31-37, we read about how to get along with other people—not just people we like, but also people we find difficult or frustrating. Reflecting on our human interdependence, adrienne maree brown asks: "Do you understand that your quality of life and your survival are tied to how authentic and generous the connections are between you and the people and place you live with and in? Are you actively practicing generosity and vulnerability in order to make the connections between you and others clear, open, available, durable? Generosity here means giving of what you have without strings or expectations attached. Vulnerability means showing your needs." Join us; together, we’ll heal our relationships and cultivate the skills we need to create the world we dream of. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548085948654-USHRS1Y9R8UZQI9GMJ1A/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Just a Little Bit In this sermon, we meditate on what can be done with "just a little faith." Do you face overwhelming situations? Can you relate with the disciples who urgently ask Jesus to increase their faith? It feels like we’d need faith the size of the Empire State Building to address some of the overwhelming problems in our lives and in the world. But Jesus tells us we're actually looking for faith "as a grain of mustard seed." Mustard is the smallest of all seeds. How can this be? In our society, we value big and grand. But what if God moves in small, almost imperceptible ways? Join us as we work on valuing the small. The subtle. Not just the fruit, but the seeds. Perhaps there are some small steps you can take in your life that could begin to make a significant difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545246223938-D2HH3HR8N1O2XS2TJPA1/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Light In The Darkness In her first sermon, Alyssa Roberts blesses our community with her deep reflections on what it means to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world. She will put Scripture and her relationship with God in conversation with her lived experiences. We will be reminded to be salty, available — the light of the world. We'll be reminded of who we are in the face of so-called-authority. We'll reflect on the uses of silence and the necessity of voice. This enfleshed Word is needed now more than ever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548862247325-WUFNLMQ86KA5PMKOUITL/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - What is the Hope to Which God is Calling You? Is there hope in the storm? Many are involved with relief efforts in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands or Mexico. Many are supporting those who are threatened by the repeal of DACA. The magnitude of need is overwhelming. We can't do everything but we can do something. The teaching in this sermon comes from Ephesians 1:18: "With the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which God has called you." What is the Hope to which God is calling You? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548862500796-FQ0BSF4S6A4T9MAHFSB9/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Beyond Pretending There is great temptation to pretend. Sometimes we're not ready to reveal our true feelings so we pretend to be okay when we're not. Or fearing that people won’t like us as we are, we pretend to be something we think they’ll like. Pretending is common and it may provide some comfort, but it is not a source of genuine hope. Instead, hope is rooted in the courageous process of reaching deep into ourselves to be who we truly are, to appreciate who God has created us to be, and to embrace our power. It really helps if our faith community intentionally supports being real. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548862687459-YV5GU7OTL5QYTYC0TPAO/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Finding Meaning in Troubling Times Are we living in an apocalyptic sci-fi movie? The number and intensity of both natural and political disasters is overwhelming. Where can we look to find our footing in this current landscape? The gospels were written in a time of great social turmoil when people were afraid. Jesus told them, “Beware that no one leads you astray.” But he also offers a pathway through the storm: A power greater than any danger, and in the end a victory of love over fear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548891265624-OWHSFVLC8JDXRT6C8BSY/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - "I Refuse to Not Have Hope" As people of the Resurrection, we are called to an irrational Hope. It's not a hope in the system, but Hope empowers us to challenge the system. It's not a hope that someone else will have a "change of heart"--but Hope compels us to proclaim that regardless, we choose to stand for what's good and true and saving. Our Hope comes from the depths of our gut. And that is where God is. Nora Asedillo Cunningham, who has a Masters in Divinity at Union Theological Seminary, preaches her first Community of the Word sermon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548892072701-FHJGXI7GD8V4LHB71JA9/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Life In The Blue Zone God created us for abundance, fulfillment, and quality of life. The prophet Isaiah declares that God is “about to create new heavens and a new earth.” He invites us to “be glad and rejoice forever.” In this new creation, “one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth.” What are the keys to a long life? What blocks long, healthy life? How can we age faithfully? Together, we'll learn about the Blue Zones Project and experience God's abundance and vitality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548890975791-O8U982A0MC3HWH54FKZX/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - A Peace That Passes All Understanding Some of us glimpsed the grandeur of the universe this week when the moon blocked the sun. Some of us have felt God's peace in a kind word or moment of grace. Faith community is a place where this peace which passes all understanding can flourish. It's easy not to make the time. But could you use some peace? Together, we'll gather together with eyes and hearts open to receiving the peace of God. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548891614962-B8LWYNBBYAEDEYPIBNXC/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - We Are All Connected The boundaries between us are deep, oppressive and historical. At the same time, we are inescapably connected. There is no way around it. Confronting this is the work of boundary crossing. In this past week's Living Faith gathering, community members wrestled with the events of Charlottesville in light of Scripture. Describing the conversation, Pastor Alexis Francisco said: "Building boundary crossing community is beautiful, messy, holy work. Our willingness to wrestle with hard questions together is more important now than ever." These connections aren’t only local, they are also global. In Martin Luther King Jr’s oft-quoted statement that we are “all caught up in an inescapable network of mutuality…” the end is often left off. He continues, “...so we are all concerned about what is happening in Africa and what is happening in Asia because we are part of this whole movement.” Evil is not eternal. Hate will not have the final say. And we are many. Let us be a people who stand for gritty Hope in the midst of despair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1549140470162-ULYKA64K614WVT4C2MWX/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Making The Leap There are a number of legitimate factors that hinder and distract us from pursuing what we feel called to do. Pursuing purpose can also seem elusive and confusing in the context of our daily lives. But we are all created by God for purpose. And we are called to demand the most from ourselves, from our communities, and from our lives. We are not called to live unintentionally. In this sermon, Lisa Asedillo Pratt meditates on a passage on purpose from the Gospel of Thomas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1549140685971-R529G0CWIUIKDOMT52ZG/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Where Do You Find Your Hope? Hope seems hard to find in today’s world. But it is our faith stance that hope is available in our relationship with God -- even during times of grieving and hardship; even in the midst of oppression. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1549141313282-GA1TFQB0F490M6ZHUGF5/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - What Is Your Experience Of Trust And Betrayal? Trust is the basis of relationship. When that trust is betrayed, relationship comes apart. In this sermon, we read Genesis 3, the story of the original betrayal and breaking of relationship. We will look at the way God begins to restore trust, reflecting on the quality of trust in our own human relationships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548892353962-0K2S3ECO4L3WRZ4KRCL9/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Giving as Healing: The Annointing at Bethany "I deserve a place of healing." This realization was a turning point for Claudia Copeland. It also transformed her giving practice. This Sunday, Community of the Word member, Claudia Copeland, will bring the sermon and share her journey of healing and growth. She'll be reflecting on a Scripture passage from Mark 14, where an unnamed woman generously anoints Jesus with ointment before his crucifixion. Claudia will share that in the beginning, she couldn't stand this passage. Why did the woman have to be unnamed? And yet it stuck with her. Over time, she began to glean from its wisdom. Where do you find healing? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548892801693-DRNVI5C2DWEIAS3FBZI4/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Created for Relationship Do we have a vision for our relationships? Do we do what it takes to make our relationships work? And do we reflect on our relationships and see the meaning in them? Together, we'll explore this process for deepening and bringing meaning to our relationships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1546365006261-GZV4R5II986TZCWVTH77/Doug.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Being "Right" or Being in Relationship Relationships can be a real challenge in our day. Stress, busy-ness, and individualism are all obstacles to the compassion and patience it takes to build them. This sermon explores the ways Creation stories in Genesis centralize the importance of relationship with one another, with God, and with the rest of creation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1549379778772-QW215RED6KIJWCXIIRCI/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Our Bodies, Our Temples Why do people try to convince you that there is something wrong with your body? Who decided on these standards that bodies are supposed to fit into? in this sermon, we explore the teaching of Jesus who spoke about the "Temple of his body." How do we care for and live fully in our bodies as temples? For far too long, LGBTQ people have been told that their bodies are sinful and broken. All of us, regardless of our gender or sexual identity, have responded to this violence by cutting off parts of who we are and hiding from the realities of our own bodies. At New Day Church, we believe that queer people are not only sacred in the image of God, but offer unique and prophetic insight about our faith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1549380009493-8AH14DCAML1ZQOQSH0NH/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - This Is My Body In this sermon, one of the nation's great liberation Bible teachers brings the Word on this year's Queer Liberation Series theme: "This is My Body." Dr. Althea Spencer Miller is a New Testament professor at Drew Theological School in Madison, New Jersey. Her vast knowledge of the scriptures and deep commitment to justice make her sermons a feast of inspiration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548895822537-N749W9QMMYXHGJPTTLE1/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Queer Liberation Month 2017 - This Is My Body https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1549380455864-98N44AN1AJ2BL7EGKVWL/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Embrace Present Joy It's time to let go of worry so we can embrace the present joy. Worry is a paralyzing practice that hinders us from living fully. Can we let it go? Can we embrace all that the present moment offers without being frazzled by what terrible thing might or might not happen in the future? Jesus invites us, actually urges us, to let worry go. How can we do that? What is it that’s worrying you that you would like to let go of? This Sunday is also Pentecost Sunday, which celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit while the disciples were gathered together, wondering how to move forward after the Resurrection. How fitting that as we consider releasing worry we do so on a Sunday that calls for us to be open to the radical, joyful, and powerful move of God in our life, even into new ways and directions that we may not have anticipated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1548896523800-1DUVM6H0VXQ0SEPAFLQN/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Releasing Comparison, Engaging God's Presence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1546532145832-G3Y2I6J489DT6X4943II/Love5.jpg All Sermons - Gallery - Conversion in Community: Justice from the Inside Out What's your conversion story? Conversion is much more than realizing a belief in a higher power. It is entering into a process with God to heal the trauma of Empire and co-create justice in ourselves and our community. In this sermon, we looked at the conversion story of Thecla and the women of all classes and species that conspire for her baptism and freedom from the powerful patriarchs that assaulted her. We'll explore the practices of witnessing the sacred in ourselves and each other, turning from Empire, and becoming an accomplice in each other's liberation in order to embrace our full humanity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1546366058036-5EDD8EYUF5M2X17F96XY/Doug.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - From Mourning to Comfort We certainly have much to mourn lately, but Jesus reminds us that God is with us during the hard times. Grieving can go on for months and years, but as resurrection people, we have comfort in a love that is eternal and more powerful that hate. We also don't need to grieve alone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545246311450-O4GVQEA7DARYAGYSFIKR/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Crossing the Boundary to Yourself: Shame, Hiding and the Unfailing Love of God In this message, Pastor Lisa Asedillo-Pratt explores the roots of shame and invites us into the healing and power we find in God's unfailing love. She preaches from the extra canonical text, The Thunder: Perfect Mind. This is one of the early Christian texts discovered in 1945 in the Egyptian village of Nag Hammadi. It's not included in the biblical canon, but may well have been read as a sacred text by early Christians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545245534030-1MOLBS5835C9GKXFYS33/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Every Valley Will Rise In the midst of uncertainty and fear, we delight in the surprising joy that God brings into the world and into our lives when we least expect it. In times like these, it is critical to know who we are and to act in the hope to which we are called. What mountains are we leveling and where is the glory of God breaking into our lives? What is being born in you in this moment of challenge? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545246372295-FOIEY3FKNA4LVWWYWC3Y/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Authenticity: Letting Go of What People Think In her book, The Gifts of Imperfection, psychologist Brene Brown invites us to "Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are." Where do we get these ideas about who we're supposed to be? This Sunday, we will discuss "Authenticity: Letting Go of What People Think." We will explore the image of Psalm 1: trees planted by streams of water, deeply rooted and bearing fruit. What steps can you take into authenticity, into fully embracing all of you and living wholeheartedly? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1546550776096-X3HHBNY4JDITO7LIT6GU/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Three Ways to Love We all want a genuine kind of love. And while the world can knock us down in our quest for love, this quest persists. On New Day's 7th Anniversary we reflect on how our faith community has been centrally concerned with the work and practice of love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547080039888-X67RZAZJ3C16J825OHQS/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Fresh-Squeezed Gratitude An uplifting meditation on gratitude. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1546550974151-LVR1REWP4ZU3C9VNLYMD/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Be Loved https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545246935809-15MUNCNX05590RMGR1WQ/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Love Across Boundaries What situations alienate us from one another and how does Beloved Community heal us? This Sunday, we will be looking at the invitation and power of Beloved Community to heal the ways we are alienated from one another (and ourselves), and made into strangers. We'll examine the invitation in Paul’s letter to see one another as brought together by God to be one another’s healing and to unlock each others potential. We'll learn that we each have a pivotal part to play and embody in the church as a temple of God’s spirit. Choosing Jesus (the alienated one) as our cornerstone offers a grace-filled opportunity to source our being, our choices, and our lives from a belief that authentic relationship with God can transform our lives, crossing boundaries can transform community, and confronting injustice can transform the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547080205794-S6C9QI5G8SC8IKVVFKFK/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Claiming Space, Choosing Home Pastor Lisa Asedillo-Pratt reflects on Jeremiah 29 and the prophet's advice for a people in exile, seeking home and belonging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1546551221552-8KA3570T2O029G0F66WF/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - 7 Ways to Love: Forgiveness Given the reality of how we are, there is no long term relationship without forgiveness. We have been talking about kindness, listening and compassion--the basic foundation of loving relationships and healthy community. These are also areas where we often fall short. Jesus speaks about forgiveness as a daily reality. Is it harder for you to forgive others, or to forgive yourself? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1546554453902-X33CQ9GT37DP34KQ46WW/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - 7 Ways to Love: Compassion Caring takes kindness to the next level. It’s a big step to connect with the pain, hopes, dreams and struggles of another person. This is the essence of real love: opening ourselves to what someone else is going through. What are the fears, distractions and insecurities that keep us from having compassion for someone? What difference does it make to break through these barriers and care? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1546554556650-CQ7VJKFVYHYB0ZTHB1NX/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - 7 Ways to Love: Listening Can you listen to someone and actually hear something new? Or do you have an established view of the person and hear them out of that framework? Jesus invites us to listen for growth and to be surprised. Does your listening open up abundant possibility? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547080720306-O0Y5QQSV11U7GGSJ4MF5/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - 7 Ways to Love: Ways to Love One Another The love teachings of Jesus are the key to our healing and fulfillment. They are not so much commandments about being righteous as lessons in how to open to love which heals and transforms us. Our teaching for Sunday is challenging. Loving those we don't like is hard. But this teaching opens the path to real love, which is always unconditional. God loves you as you are now. The invitation to be merciful even as God is merciful is transforming. Can you imagine the possibilities? We can love the way God loves! We will explore some of the obstacles to this kind of love, namely our annoyance at some people and the ways they may have disappointed us. It's hard to love through this hurt. But this unconditional love is where the power is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545246769413-NHOOLGFJZOZ4YY3ZMEW7/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Take a Chance on God In this sermon, Alexis Francisco prepared a remarkable message of healing and trusting in God. Two stories of encounters with Jesus in the tenth chapter of Mark's gospel invite us into powerful questions about finding healing in the midst of lives steeped in trauma. How do we heal the wounds that have alienated us from ourselves and one another - and what possibilities are available on the other side of that healing? The only way out is through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547087274789-3AVSJ3O40LR35QPVG7JI/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - What Road to Freedom? The gospel erupts around the story of an unarmed man who was killed by the state. What is the road to freedom? On the Sunday after the police officer who murdered Mike Brown (an 18-year-old, unarmed black man) was set free in Ferguson, Missouri, we enter into a conversation around the power, the love, the justice, and the peace of God. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545246862688-COPDDKP2U4GI2DCKZQFM/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Holy Disruption https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545245484355-3X60PZXZUCUOIHB6RSSV/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Speak the Holy Spirit Who and what has silenced you? How do we find our voice? In his first sermon, Argenys Taveras speaks powerfully as the host of New Day open mics and now as a student at Union Theological Seminary. As he has moved deeper into his story in search of his voice, he has discovered a connection between the Holy Spirit and speaking his truth powerfully. How are you finding your voice? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545245251621-CC7MM71115BULFEGA6MF/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Freedom What is freedom? For Paul, freedom is about love, joy, peace patience and generosity (Galatians 5:13-23). What does freedom mean to you? And how are we going to get free? Paul has some insights that may surprise you! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545245191611-413L2X1M8JSQMJVM1PAI/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Unity and Difference Energy and joy break out when we experience a unity that also respects our differences. It's not easy to attain but Paul lays out a vision and shows us the way in Galatians 3:25-28. Join us this Sunday as we continue to explore the freedom God gives us to live in love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545245043398-1V0ECDE3BV9CX4RB50S9/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Why Is Jesus So Important? Holiness is all around us. Just a glimpse fills us with wonder. And yet often we do not perceive it. Jesus is the bridge between the human and the holy and he makes a way for us to cross over. (Luke 24:13-32). I look forward to seeing you Sunday as we move deeper into the awe-inspiring mystery of faith. This will be a great week to invite your friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545245008974-TBXP3BMFBIEAH4G78SSO/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Healing the Heart What are your emotional scars? This Sunday we explore a story of healing a man with a traumatic past. (Mark 5:1-20) Together we can build community and be in healing relationships with each other and with Jesus, relationships that heal the woulds that come from people and social systems. We don't want to get stuck in the pain of the past. How are you healing your heart? How are we building a healing community? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545244634138-AWLIBCQ18SYWV76YDMDM/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Queer Liberation Month 2013: Chosen Family The authenticity of the testimonies, the music, the poetry, the drama and the presence of the Spirit have made worship this month a remarkable experience of healing and power. The fabulous finale is coming this Sunday: La Familia - Chosen Family. It’s an invitation to choose to live in a loving family that supports and encourages us to be all of who God has created us to be. We will hear powerful testimonies of families choosing to love sons, daughters, sisters and brothers who are coming out, and choosing family members beyond our biological families. Jesus invites us beyond traditional family roles and expectations to choose a faith family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545246597757-DDH8Q9YWU44QPXZRHEYJ/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Queer Liberation Month 2013: HIV/AIDS, Isolation and Liberation This week we look at HIV/AIDS – a huge issue for the Bronx, and at what it means to come out of our isolation to be a community of healing. In the gospel story from Mark 5, a woman who is isolated in her illness reaches out in faith to touch. She opens the way to a healing for us all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545165935693-Q8PTL2743HSJ6QQGIUG7/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Queer Liberation Month 2013 - Beyond the Limits: Gender in the Bible In what ways do narrow definitions of masculine and feminine limit you? Are the macho-man and the beauty queen really the only options? This Sunday we move beyond these limits to connect deeply with God who is creating us in a wide variety of gender expressions and with Wisdom who is "delighting in the human race" (Proverbs 8:31). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545244687578-BH64J43LVNPAM4RJXSGN/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - Queer Liberation Month 2013: Coming Out This Sunday we claim and celebrate all of who God has created us to be. This is an important moment for us as a church. Jorge Lockward will reflect on the story of Esther who wanted to hide an important part of who she was for fear that it wouldn't be accepted. In coming out, she saved her people. Jorge will share his experiences coming out as a gay man and challenging the church to end its discrimination against LGBTQ people. In what new ways do you want to come out? How can we come out fully as a church, woven together in one single garment of destiny? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1545166028950-ETZNMAVIFUTSTGV1LZJC/image-asset.jpeg All Sermons - Gallery - In Remembrance of Her Maria Fernandez reflects powerfully on the gospel story of a bold and compassionate woman. 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547831994235-CF9LRRLQM0OW4A16MV4J/image2.jpeg The Womyn's Group https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547832024642-HVAWGQSDPVDJKKJX6HL1/image1.jpeg The Womyn's Group https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547824614700-R4UCCUVHGAUD46RGB7RY/ThisBody2_Womyn.jpg The Womyn's Group https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1547833202752-1ICSASP54GHFJMVR18GO/Love8.jpg The Womyn's Group https://www.newdaychurch.nyc/leadership-council daily 0.75 2023-03-23 https://www.newdaychurch.nyc/giving2020 daily 0.75 2020-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1577056860789-HPR1FQKRF09BW1CTORS9/Copy+of+DSC07498.JPG 2020 Holiday Giving Campaign https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1577055727237-ZR3TO34QV0890AEV19TA/Love12.jpg 2020 Holiday Giving Campaign https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1498307043052-R473UK6D8UJE4PTD0UQ0/NewDayGiving-Image1.jpg 2020 Holiday Giving Campaign https://www.newdaychurch.nyc/testimonials daily 0.75 2020-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1579989929378-LYRP2FAWPIG8JWRBCGOR/62105575_10157257713010797_7944028951574216704_o.jpg Testimonials - Morgan Richard-Melamdir New Day brings people together in a way I've never seen before. A person's whole self is always welcome, and this creates an inclusivity that is absolutely necessary for the future of church. We love widely and deeply. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1579992184345-QMPJSDUEUESORCDS2GDQ/83180335_10102082579960140_4020227760017375232_n.jpg Testimonials - Mayra Francisco A unique faith community much needed in the Bronx and the whole NYC area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1581706392600-XWC3CEB2ENMSOO33ZFZ9/66709376_2651299698430211_351859487713263616_n.jpg Testimonials - Gregory Jost In 2019, after 25 years of righteous agnosticism, I found my way back to God—first manifesting as Grace, through taking a leap of Faith in claiming God’s existence and power in my life. God led me to this through many fraught twists and turns, sleepless Adirondack nights, and unwavering lessons from our ancestors, of which I am called to write. When I returned to the Bronx in July, my church of ten years had just transitioned to a new pastor who visually was the opposite of our outgoing founder. Pastor Tabatha Holley is young, black, woman, queer, Southern, and ... compact. As we had recently left the United Methodist denomination over its refusal to budge on gay marriage, our new pastor’s arrival coincided with a new legal and financial organization. In many ways, we all had been reborn. As in any rebirth, we are moving through both our beautiful divine discoveries as well as our challenges and growing pains. I’ve heeded a calling to attend church and give regularly for the first time since high school, to join the praise and worship team first playing my trombone and more recently singing (into a microphone for the first time in my life!), and to join the finance team where I help us look at our budget and giving in new, creative ways. We are a church of abundance, of radical acceptance and liberation, a place that practices boldly that we are all created in God’s image, including reimagining God. We are a healing space for those who have felt the trauma when we weren’t accepted as who we fully are in our past churches. Through this, we are a place in the Bronx for any and all to (re)connect with God, cross boundaries that would normally divide us, and confront the injustice of 21st century empire in a faith community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1546532145832-G3Y2I6J489DT6X4943II/Love5.jpg Testimonials - Allison Manuel New Day Church has been a brave spiritual community that has witnessed and held me through my struggles and growth in the Bronx. Ten years ago, someone pressed me into coming after I insisted church was not for me. But I found a church that was not about the performance of perfection, dogma that perpetuates oppression, or control through fear and shame. Here, I've entered into a family that is committed to the messy work of loving across boundaries, asking questions and being with mystery, and striving for integrity between values and action. Here, I recovered my creative life force through singing and writing. Here I have found partners with whom I have marched and occupied, created new spaces for learning and healing, gotten a little more liberated and a lot more queer. I couldn't be more inspired and honored to have welcomed Pastor Tabatha Holley as our new pastor. She is deeply listening and boldly moving us to embody the community we are meant to be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1546821545058-52M8Q972Z46L3OHDRZQV/P1010011_small.jpg Testimonials - Alexis Francisco New Day is a spiritual haven in the northwest Bronx with a big vision to re-imagine what ‘church’ can be for those who have been most disconnected/discarded from spiritual community. New Day welcomed me at my messiest, and helped me put my pieces back together - not with what they professed, but with with how they lived. There was nothing ‘perfect’ about this community, but I could sense there was integrity in their striving to be who they believed they could be. That was enough for me to lean in, and God met me the rest of the way. This community invested in me, and developed me as a person and as a leader. Beyond Sunday services, New Day shows me what it means to connect with a Higher Power authentically, to do the messy (and at times seemingly impossible) work of being community across boundaries, and to live in ways that dare to confront injustice, not from a place of righteousness but from open hearted faith that another world is truly possible. Even as my spiritual practice and identity has shifted, New Day is forever a spiritual home for me where I feel whole, welcome and inspired to live in faith and in community. With the new leadership of Pastor Tabatha Holley, New Day is shedding skins and emerging into a future that is still to be written. I pray that New Day Church continue to be that surprising - “I didn’t even know I was looking for this...” - type of blessing for many others for many years to come. We are extending an invitation to our broader network of friends and supporters to help usher that new future into being with a financial contribution. Any amount is welcome and deeply appreciated! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1579990196265-J3OZXGSBURUXFYFTS1KL/28379803_10208389907224819_2962212321659585028_n.jpg Testimonials - Scarly Rodríguez New Day is my faith community for over six years. It sustains me and keeps me hopeful that creating a just world for all is possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1498307043052-R473UK6D8UJE4PTD0UQ0/NewDayGiving-Image1.jpg Testimonials https://www.newdaychurch.nyc/coronavirus daily 0.75 2020-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585324918854-Z9H2MA3TPGF4CR06583Q/image0+%281%29.png Coronavirus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585260773472-2GFPNXS4RQXQ6KNR3ZJW/1_180717.jpg Coronavirus https://www.newdaychurch.nyc/press daily 0.75 2020-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1498307043052-R473UK6D8UJE4PTD0UQ0/NewDayGiving-Image1.jpg Press https://www.newdaychurch.nyc/selfcare daily 0.75 2020-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585260773472-2GFPNXS4RQXQ6KNR3ZJW/1_180717.jpg Self Care - Main - Healing Materials https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585260773472-2GFPNXS4RQXQ6KNR3ZJW/1_180717.jpg Self Care - Main - Recipes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585260773472-2GFPNXS4RQXQ6KNR3ZJW/1_180717.jpg Self Care - Main - Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585260773472-2GFPNXS4RQXQ6KNR3ZJW/1_180717.jpg Self Care - Main - Songs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585260773472-2GFPNXS4RQXQ6KNR3ZJW/1_180717.jpg Self Care - Main https://www.newdaychurch.nyc/selfcare-recipes daily 0.75 2020-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1586110818531-79NWK5X56HCZWTJYJW6W/021917_2.jpg Self Care - Recipes - Garlic, Lemon, Ginger and Honey Tea When I felt unwell as a child, my mom often brewed this simple mixture. She’d let me lay in her bed and would wrap me up in the covers, then place this warm cup of tea in my hands. “Blow on it before you drink it,” she’d say. She’d check my forehead with her cheek, then close the door and let me rest quietly in the big bed. I always felt so special in those moments. Chop up a bit of raw garlic, lemon, and ginger, then add it to boiling water. Let it steep for three to five moments. Add honey to taste. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1586111194079-84ZTHWIQ1IB1VB90GMA2/021917_2.jpg Self Care - Recipes 3 large cloves of garlic (or 1 teaspoon or garlic powder) 1 thumb sized chunk of ginger root (or 1 1/2 teaspoon of ginger powder) 1 small-medium yellow onion 2 chicken breasts 4 tablespoons of olive oil 10-12 cups of water (depending on how thick you want your soup) 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 2 tablespoons fish sauce (substitute with 1 large chicken or veggie bouillon cube) 1 tablespoon soy sauce 2 cups white jasmine rice Salt to taste Optional: Some leafy greens, kale, spinach, things like that - Peel and finely slice the garlic and ginger. - Thinly slice the chicken. - In a large pot on medium heat, add the olive oil, ginger, and garlic. Stir to coat everything. - After garlic starts turning golden, add the chicken pieces. Cover the pot, and cook for about 8 minutes, stirring evening 2 minutes. - Add 10-12 cups of water (10 cups will produce a more porridge like soup, where 12 will make it more broth-y). Turn stove to high heat. Add the back pepper, fish sauce, and soy sauce (or bouillon cube). Cover the pot. - As soon as the water boils, turn heat to medium. Let simmer for another 7 minutes. Rinse the rice and add it slowly to the boiling broth. Stir every couple minutes. After 15 minutes, taste to see if it needs any additional salt and pepper. If you want to add leafy greens, I would add it in at the last 5 minutes. - Garnish with sliced hardboiled eggs and sliced green onion if you would like! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585260773472-2GFPNXS4RQXQ6KNR3ZJW/1_180717.jpg Self Care - Recipes https://www.newdaychurch.nyc/coronavirus-care daily 0.75 2020-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585260773472-2GFPNXS4RQXQ6KNR3ZJW/1_180717.jpg Coronavirus - Care https://www.newdaychurch.nyc/communicationcard daily 0.75 2020-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585260773472-2GFPNXS4RQXQ6KNR3ZJW/1_180717.jpg Communication Card - Songs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585260773472-2GFPNXS4RQXQ6KNR3ZJW/1_180717.jpg Communication Card - Healing Materials https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585260773472-2GFPNXS4RQXQ6KNR3ZJW/1_180717.jpg Communication Card - Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585260773472-2GFPNXS4RQXQ6KNR3ZJW/1_180717.jpg Communication Card - Recipes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585324918854-Z9H2MA3TPGF4CR06583Q/image0+%281%29.png Communication Card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585260773472-2GFPNXS4RQXQ6KNR3ZJW/1_180717.jpg Communication Card https://www.newdaychurch.nyc/selfcare-songs daily 0.75 2020-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1585260773472-2GFPNXS4RQXQ6KNR3ZJW/1_180717.jpg Self Care - Songs https://www.newdaychurch.nyc/selfcare-books daily 0.75 2020-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1586222102067-Q9O7UDDBVWASZJXYFN22/051117_TheFireNextTime+%281%29.jpg Self Care - Books - The Fire Next Time, Essays by James Baldwin Shared by Alexis Francisco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1586221733823-9LTMOOGUESMCE7MD2V2R/051117_BrothertoBrother.jpg Self Care - Books - Brother to Brother: New Writing by Gay Black Men, Edited by Essex Hemphill Shared by Alexis Francisco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1586221509480-5S6NC0F63BO3SU3WAE7K/041617_TheGiftsofImperfection.jpg Self Care - Books - The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown Self-care means letting go of the impossible quest to be perfect and accepting myself as I am. In The Gifts of Imperfection, Brene Brown says, “Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.” She encourages us to embrace that we are: “Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1586221221489-H7Q52I1Q46PU6Z2UXTDD/041617_LifeoftheBeloved.jpg Self Care - Books - Life of the Beloved by Henri J.M. Nouwen Self-care begins with the realization that I am beloved. Henri Nouwen’s book, Life of the Beloved, lays out both the reality of my belovedness and a path to move toward a realization of that reality. 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To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort.” - Doug Cunningham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1586221837514-M6R0PM6TRNBTCFZDUROY/051117_TheCancerJournals.jpg Self Care - Books - The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde Shared by Alexis Francisco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57620703579fb39e105465bf/1586221066519-MTUJM2LY8OHXJ8P1UMGW/030417_TheRumiCollection.jpg Self Care - Books - The Rumi Collection edited by Kabir Helminski This book is littered with inked underlines, brackets, and stars– my written amens. I visit Rumi’s words often, wrapping under his practical perspectives on love, spirituality, and The Divine. Each time I pick them up, I’m reminded to recenter on God, to identify and focus on what’s most important, to be loving, and to stay connected to my purpose. 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June 27, 2:30pm, Bryant Park We’ll march from Bryant Park to Washington Square Park, where the Pride Rally will take place.