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8/3/25 | Rev Dr Pamela Lightsey | Methodism Why We Do This

Cain's question—“Am I my brother’s keeper?”—still echoes today. John Wesley, founder of Methodism, answered with a resounding yes—especially when confronting the horrors of slavery. He called slavery “the sum of all villainies,” recognizing that to ignore the suffering of others is to deny our sha…

7/27/25 | Rev Dr Pamela Lightsey | The Gospel of Our Bodies

Join us this Sunday as we discuss God's desire for us to be open to God's will, even to the point of letting go of the ways we thought we were right. Open to God's shifts for our lives. We will read and study Acts 10:9-16.

8/10/25 | Rev Dr Pamela Lightsey | Methodism Why We Do This | The Way of Grace

Rev. Pamela Lightsey leads us through Ephesians 2:3–10 in a message titled "The Way of Grace." Discover how God’s gift of grace transforms our lives—not because of what we’ve done, but because of who God is. Come as you are. Experience grace, healing, and community. #UrbanVillageChurch #WayOfGrace …

9/7/2025: Rev Pamela Lightsey | Flourishing - Gift Economy | Genesis 2:4-8, 15-17, 19

This Sunday we begin Flourishing: Caring for All Creation – One Book, One Church with the story of Genesis 2. God places humankind in the garden, not to own it, but to tend and care for it. Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us that creation is not a commodity but a gift—life flourishes when we receive it…

9/14/2025: Rev Pamela Lightsey | What Do You Expect? | 2 Corinthians 9: 6-12 NRSV

Join us as we continue Flourishing: Caring for All Creation and explore the call to reciprocity and generous living. In 2 Corinthians 9:6–12, we hear: “The one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully… God loves a cheerful giver… God i…

9/21/2025: Rev Pamela Lightsey | Interdependence | 1 Corinthians 12:12-27

Sometimes we talk about nature as somewhere we go, but we are part of nature and share a deep interconnectedness with the rest of creation. In 1 Corinthians 12:12- 27, Paul teaches that each part of the body is essential to its function. Just as the body of Christ is interconnected, so too is all c…

9/28/2025: Dr. Pamela Lightsey | When God Sends God Delivers | Isaiah 55:10-13

📖 Isaiah 55:10-13 "As the rain and snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accompl…

Cassidy Hall on Queering Contemplation and Living from the Heart

Cassidy Hall joins host Rod Janz for a conversation about queerness, contemplation, and living from the heart. Cassidy shares how reading Thomas Merton’s New Seeds of Contemplation led her to visit 19 Trappist monasteries in the United States. That journey opened her to silence as a space of healin…

26. Antifascist Gardening Theology w/ Ciarra Jones

I first came across Ciarra Jones on TikTok as @thegardeningtheologian, and I was moved by her eloquent, queer, and plant-based antifascism. She grew up in the Assemblies of God Pentecostal Church, but through her studies at UC Berkeley and Harvard Divinity School she developed a public theology gro…

Cassidy Hall: “Queerness belongs to all of us”

For me, queerness and contemplation or the contemplative path are just such a natural union… the Christian contemplative tradition began with a lot of weirdness in third and fourth century deserts. — Cassidy Hall Debonee and Skye have a joyful and insightful conversation with Cassidy Hall, author …