by Rev Alisha

Tag: faith

  • Befriending the Dark

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    March 1, 2026John 3:1-17 What would happen if we saw darkness not as something to turn from but to be transformed by? In a culture (and a faith) addicted to light, certainty, productivity, and being right, John 3 offers a different way. A way of unknowing, where darkness becomes the place not only of honesty…

  • The Way of the Wilderness

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    Feb 22, 2026Matthew 4:1-11 From swept floors at Lunar New Year to the long fast of Ramadan and Jesus’ forty days in the desert, this week we follow the long thread of truth woven through human history: that renewal begins with release. This reflection explores Lent as an embodied practice, marked not just in calendars…

  • Heaven, Here

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    Feb 1, 2026Matthew 5:1-12 What if heaven isn’t somewhere we go later, but something we keep encountering together? Drawing on the Beatitudes, shared rituals, and moments of public gathering, we see how blessing takes shape among the grieving, the gentle, and those who hunger for justice. From mountaintops to city streets, heaven is revealed not…

  • What Are You Looking For?

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    Jan 18, 2026John 1:29-42 What if the thing you’ve been searching for has been quietly looking for you all along? We live in a world that tells us what to look at, what to fear, and who to blame — and in the noise, it’s easy to lose sight of what we’re actually longing for.…

  • Something Out of Nothing

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    Jan 4, 2025 Isaiah 25:6-10aRevelation 21:1-6a We begin at a threshold — where Isaiah’s feast of rich food and wiped tears meets the ache and uncertainty of the present. Through scripture, memory, and the ordinary holiness of communion, imagination emerges not as escape but as resistance — the way God keeps making something out of…

  • The Scandal of Christmas

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    Dec 25, 2025Luke 2:1-20 What if Christmas isn’t about escaping the world, but learning how to stay? This reflection explores a God who chooses fragile, finite flesh over power and prestige, and a peace that arrives not by force, but by presence. In a world marked by unpeace, Christmas invites us to remain and believe—with…

  • Becoming Sanctuary

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    Dec 21, 2025Luke 1:26-56 In the wake of last week’s violence at Bondi, the story of Elizabeth and Mary calls us to pause, rather than rush to solutions. For it is often in the watching, in the waiting, in the quiet courage of simply being, that God’s work of deep and tender healing begins to…

  • Caught-up in Christ

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    Feb 9, 2025Luke 5: 1-11 Too often in progressive churches we deny ourselves the feeling of the ecstatic – of what it might mean to follow Christ. Simon Peter shows us how letting ourselves be consumed by Christ’s beauty and abundance has the capacity to change everything.

  • Called for the Life of the World

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    Feb 2, 2025Jeremiah 1:4-10 The misconception about ‘call’ is that it’s for the select few, the saints of our history, the prophets of our past or the preachers at our pulpits. But the fact is, we are all called. We are all born into this time and place with our unique gifts and graces for…

  • Beauty will Save the World

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    Jan 19, 2025John 2:1-11 In a world full of chaos, war, and corruption, God reveals glory through the soft, unexpected, and beautiful—like Mary’s faith and Jesus’ first miracle at Cana. Beauty isn’t just decoration; it transforms hearts, reveals God’s presence, and invites us to participate in a world made new. So open your eyes… seek…