Resurrection Now

"What does resurrection look like for a community of faith?  What does resurrection look like in our own valley of bones? It can look like a community that has been battered by the daily onslaught of attempts to divide us...a church beaten nearly to death by the knowledge of what our country is doing in God’s name … a people worn down to dry bones by the constant fight against each wave of injustice that empire unleashes-against our immigrant neighbors, our LGBTQ neighbors, our black neighbors, our Muslim neighbors.... It can look like that community grieving together, sharing one another’s pain. Then, reminding one another of God’s promise of steadfast love and forgiveness, opening ourselves to the spirit breath of God, inhaling rejuvenating hope. It can look like us unbinding and freeing each other to do our part of the work of unbinding and freeing our neighboring communities. At this moment, death is now and resurrection is also now. We are all connected by both. May we remember both our oneness and God’s promises so that we live out hope even after every death."

Meditation by The Rev. Tonya Barnette

Sunday, March 22, 2026