Last Sunday we hosted a communal online experience meant to offer each of us some spiritual help in our individual journeys of leaving behind what constricts us and embracing promise for the future. Our sense is, as we turn the page on 2020, this past year has been full of chances for constricting lies, traumas, thoughts, beliefs, or vows to make their way into us and start to take up residence.
Read MoreTouching on a theology of liberation, joy, and suffering that connects Jesus' cross to the lynching of Black Americans, BLC's Leicester Mitchell helps us see Jesus and the Gospel through the lived experience of a Black man in America today.
Read MoreIn honor of the weekend many would have been participating in Chicago’s Pride Parade if not for COVID-19, Rebecca Janvrin joins Vince & Kyle to discuss queer insights on God and faith. This kicks off our new series of discussion: God of the Oppressed. We’ll be immersing ourselves, one at a time, in various different marginalized perspectives on Jesus and faith and the Bible. Really, we can’t come to a proper theology and understanding of Jesus at all if we’re not trying to do that from marginalized perspectives, because Jesus was a marginalized person.
Read MoreVince & Kyle follow up on Sunday's discussion of Society Resets.
Read MoreKyle invites us to participate in some of the church’s plans for caring for families this fall.
Read MoreA vision or message is nothing without people to carry it. With help from various Brown Line Vineyard team leaders, Vince leads us in saying thank you to all our volunteers, and reflects on the way this church’s vision has been influenced by St. Paul’s message about Jesus in Acts 17: born out of respect for wider culture, not being against wider culture.
Read MoreVince kicks off our 40 Days of Faith Prayer Experiment for Lent 2018, getting us to dream big together about the impact our church can have on our wider community. What if we could help more people in Lincoln Square build rich interpersonal networks?
Read MoreHard-wired into humans is an incredible tool to enhance our daily experience of life, to help us turn our relational circuits on when stress has turned them off, and to connect with God and other people. That tool is our memory!
Read MoreAs the story of St. Peter being freed from prison demonstrates, the invitation to trust in God is not an invitation to live in a fantasy world where life always works out. It's an invitation to experience hope, care, love, and justice in the midst of the hard reality we all know: that life is in fact pretty unfair.
Read MoreBrown Line is lucky to have a number of inter-racial and inter-cultural couples making up our community. Their experiences can help us understand the story of Peter & Cornelius in the book of Acts and why Jesus loves setting up cross-cultural interactions.
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