This is the official podcast of Urban Village Church in Chicago.
Episodes
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Drag & Spirituality: Named & Known is an ongoing series about with hostess B0NNi33 Vi0L3T (@aqueerchaplain). In our series premiere, B0NNi33 Vi0L3T speaks with Saya Naomi (@queensayanaomi)!!
In each conversation B0NNi33 Vi0L3T will guide a conversation around drag & spirituality, with drag artists of a variety of spiritual experience, gender, race, age, sexual orientation, size, ability, and styles of drag. Ultimately lacing drag narratives with a spiritual thread for the benefit of the artist and the audience that bears witness.
"I’m a kind and a spiritual person that loves passion and the arts. My star sign is a Gemini and I’m every bit of it. My motto is to stay humble and always help others in need." - @queenSayaNaomi
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Pastors Hannah, Emily, Juan Pablo, and Christian discuss their favorite way for naming and addressing God, their most challenging concepts around God’s many names throughout Scripture, and how naming God in a diverse amount of ways impacts their discipleship, theology, and faith community. What is your favorite name for God? What lessons around using the names of God have you learned from your youth and recent faith practices? Join the discussion!
CCLI # 3211711 / CCLI Streaming #20104183
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Site Pastor D’Angelo Smith preaches today about darkness providing an opportunity to learn. Sometimes the darkness forces us to look right in front of us instead of far ahead, and this can be scary. We like to see far ahead of us. Still, darkness forces us to look for God’s imagination instead of our own expectations. Who would expect God to be found where animals eat?? This morning, let’s look closer at God’s imagination. Please join!
CCLI # 3211711 / CCLI Streaming #20104183
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
This winter, some of us may be feeling the fear and anxiety of shorter days and longer nights. But it is in the darkness that we find some of God’s greatest, most nurturing gifts. This Advent we’re looking back on Christmas stories and finding in them the places where darkness holds us, loves us, guides us, and liberates.
UVC Pastoral Intern Drew Jones reflects on God’s promises in the dark. Joseph, Mary, and Jesus relied on God’s nurture and care to flee oppression and violence in the night. The magi depended on God’s faithfulness during the nights to be led to Christ through astrology and science. In these stories, darkness brings loved one and chosen family together, protects, and shelters! The realities of this season are hard, but we remind ourselves that we are not alone. God holds promises in the darkness.
CCLI # 3211711 / CCLI Streaming #20104183
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Join UVC's Teaching Pastor Hannah Kardon and Executive Pastor Emily McGinley as they discuss scripture, formation, and God's bold, inclusive, and relevant love with new Site Pastor (Hyde Park-Woodlawn / Wicker Park) D'Angelo Smith!
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
This morning, UVC Pastoral Intern Sam Coker reflects on the prophet Isaiah who anticipated destruction and exile yet prophetically claimed a hope for a new way and a new expectation. Through Isaiah’s message of consolation, we are invited to reimagine the ways we think about darkness, the dichotomy of light and dark, and how binary ways of thinking lead to exclusion and division opposed to an inclusive, bold, and relevant love. All of what God has created is good, and in darkness there is beauty, nurture, and life!
CCLI # 3211711 / CCLI Streaming #20104183
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Continuing our series “the gifts that keep on giving,” we look towards Scripture which consistently resists the myth of scarcity. We recognize scarcity leads to segregating us from our community and our neighbor. The Bible is clear about this attitude: it is sin. Pastor Myron Krys preaches that although our resources do not belong to us, we do not put our faith in our abundance, but the Giver of abundance. Giving is a holy act, a resistant act, and it leads to life! You are enough, your gifts are enough. Join us in worship!
CCLI # 3211711 / CCLI Streaming #20104183
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
In Mark 12 we read a story of Jesus condemning the systems and structures that exploit and do not protect, that restrict and do not liberate, by honoring the giving of the poor widow.
The text says she gave everything with her whole being and whole existence, reflecting Jesus’ commandment to love our God and neighbor with *all* our heart, *all* our mind, *all* our soul, and *all* our strength. The widow who radically gives her offering fulfills God’s greatest commandment, and Christ’s honors her. We too are presented with this same decision: how can we contribute our whole selves to God’s radically inclusive, boldly liberating, and incredibly necessary work in the world? Please join us!
CCLI # 3211711 / CCLI Streaming #20104183
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Monday Nov 02, 2020
This has been a year! A year of grief, a year of politics, and a year of activism. What are these to the Christian, and what do they have to do with each other? Today we celebrate All Souls Day by taking time to remember those who have died and the ways in which, in Christ, we are all, even still, one community. With the names and memories of our collective “cloud of witnesses" who brought us this far, we honor those witnesses, and are strengthened in our own witness.
Join us as we honor those who have come before us and how we can gird our hearts for whatever comes next.
CCLI # 3211711 / CCLI Streaming #20104183
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Monday Oct 26, 2020
UVC turns 10- wahoo! This morning, pastors Christian Coon (Pastor of Emerging Ministries), Emily McGinley (Executive Pastor), Hannah Kardon (Teaching Pastor) and UVC co-founder Trey Hall (Director of Evangelism and Growth at Methodist Church London, UK) share about this deeply radical and ancient idea that God loves us, so we can love others. This is what has shaped UVC the last decade. This is also a message that has sustained faith communities for thousands of years, and while UVC may be giving different language to this idea for “such a time such as this,” we get to find fresh language again and again to invite, plant, transform, co-create, and bear good fruit!
CCLI # 3211711 / CCLI Streaming #20104183