Episodes
Friday Sep 20, 2024
OiC August 25th, 2024 – Trinity – What for?
Friday Sep 20, 2024
Friday Sep 20, 2024
Have you ever asked God for more faith? Have you ever been told that you should "grow in faith"?
Questions like that are not uncommon, and emerge from all kinds of situations. But can faith be quantified? And what do we want faith for anyway?
This week Maicon Steuernagel explores the disciples request for more faith in the Gospel of Luke, and asks if we might need to change aspirations for presence
Welcome to the daily work of faith. Welcome to embodied belief. Welcome to OiC!
Monday Sep 16, 2024
OiC August 18th, 2024 – Trinity – Look out
Monday Sep 16, 2024
Monday Sep 16, 2024
Beatings, slaves and people being cut into pieces... it seems like the Autumn semester is off to a rough start!
After a long Summer break, we head back into our Sunday Reflections. Maicon Steuernagel spends time with a parable of uncomfortably violent language, asks what we might find out about the questions we bring to the story, and discovers the call for a faith embodied in the present.
Welcome to uncomfortable language we need to address. Welcome to difficult questions about ourselves. Welcome to OiC!
Monday Aug 05, 2024
OiC June 2nd, 2024 – Trinity – Phillip
Monday Aug 05, 2024
Monday Aug 05, 2024
What's the deal with Phillip?
We know very little about him. Yet he's also all over the place. Maicon Steuernagel explores how Phillip can encourage us towards a way of being, wherever we are, that is generous and full of grace.
Welcome to the stories that challenge us. Welcome to OiC!
Friday Aug 02, 2024
OiC May 26th, 2024 – Trinity
Friday Aug 02, 2024
Friday Aug 02, 2024
Titles are tricky.
They can open the reader up for what is coming, or restrain and even mislead the reading. On this year's Sunday of the Trinity, Maicon Steuernagel talks about how headings in our Bible translations can sometimes be unhelpful, and what that has to do with how we speak about God.
Welcome to the community of the divine. Welcome to OiC!
Monday Jul 29, 2024
OiC May 19th, 2024 – Pentecost – Copyright
Monday Jul 29, 2024
Monday Jul 29, 2024
Can we own a story?
Who owns the story of the Gospel? Who get's to tell it? On Pentecost Sunday, Maicon Steuernagel reflects on our tendencies to control the story, and invites us to let go of controling the story of Jesus, and each other.
Welcome to the story. Welcome to OiC!
Friday Jul 26, 2024
OiC May 12th, 2024 – Where grace lives – Babel
Friday Jul 26, 2024
Friday Jul 26, 2024
"We’re a little micro-cosmos of Babel. A little mess of our own."
This week, Maicon Steuernagel reflects on his odd choice of metaphor for his own families experience as a multi-cultural, multi-lingual family, and offer a different perspective on the very odd story of the tower of Babel.
Welcome to our own little mess. Welcome to the re-imagining diversity in a landscape of reconciliation. Welcome to OiC!
Monday Jul 22, 2024
OiC May 5th, 2024 – Where grace lives – A practice of skepticism
Monday Jul 22, 2024
Monday Jul 22, 2024
What is the nature of perfection and justice we aspire for?
Maicon Steuernagel shares about why he sees prayer as a holy practice of spekticism, and why revisiting prayer's power to change our selves might not be a bad idea after all.
Welcome to prayer not following our rules. Welcome to OiC!
Friday Jul 19, 2024
OiC April 28th, 2024 – Where grace lives – Counter-narratives
Friday Jul 19, 2024
Friday Jul 19, 2024
What is the Kingdom of God like?
We might want a clear, hard answer. Jesus gives us parables. Listening to the parables, and to the story of a prophet and a widow, Maicon Steuernagel finds the counter-narratives that upset the theo-politics of our world.
Welcome to the counter-narrative. Welcome to OiC!