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Charles Booker
May 19, 2025

Love Comes from Letting Go

Charles Booker
May 19, 2025

Scripture: John 13:31-35. At the Last Supper, Jesus beckons the disciples to let him go. He then instructs them - three times - to "love one another". Might these instructions be related?

Charles Booker
May 14, 2025

Mother's Day: Women of Strength, Shrewdness, Hope.

Charles Booker
May 14, 2025

Scriptures: Exodus 1:16-18, 2:1-10, Mark 7:24-30. Guest: Rev. Pat Jackson, Executive Director, Interwoven Congregations for Racial Justice and Healing.

Charles Booker
May 5, 2025

Caesar or Jesus? A Question of Allegiance

Charles Booker
May 5, 2025

Saul's transformation of allegiance on the road to Damascus: dramatic! As for us, in the light of these past 100 days: what can Saul's experience teach us about our faith response?

Charles Booker
April 28, 2025

Postcard from Ukraine: "Rehearsing Moses"

Charles Booker
April 28, 2025

Rev. Dr. Robert Gamble of This Child Here - on Moses and the burning bush. Ukraine "is so tragic, it burns. And yet it is so hope-filled, it will not be consumed."

Charles Booker
April 22, 2025

Easter Sunday: Why The Women?

Charles Booker
April 22, 2025

Why were the women the first ones to experience Jesus' resurrection? And what do their actions teach us in today's DC chaos?

Charles Booker
April 15, 2025

April 13 (Palm Sunday): A Sanctuary in the City

Charles Booker
April 15, 2025

Jesus faces great suffering his final week - and yet offers sanctuary for others who seem to have lost hope (crying out "Peace in heaven!" vs. "Peace on earth!") How are we providing an urban sanctuary 'midst suffering so very present in our world today?

Charles Booker
April 7, 2025

April 6: "What's The Use?"

Charles Booker
April 7, 2025

Facing death, Jesus is anointed with costly perfume. What's the use of this being done? Or is there a greater question to ask ourselves? ...

Charles Booker
March 31, 2025

March 30: That Other Brother

Charles Booker
March 31, 2025

The journey of the Prodigal Son is well known. Perhaps we identify more with his older brother. Can we give that brother - lurking in the shadows - some love as well?

Charles Booker
March 26, 2025

March 23: "Did You Hear About ... ?"

Charles Booker
March 26, 2025

Lectionary Scripture: Luke 13:1-9. What's happening in our world today might be more important than ever. Jesus offers a Lent challenge for us: to shift our focus on what the world is doing to us ... to what we are doing alongside of others.

Charles Booker
March 18, 2025

March 16: Mother Bird Jesus v. Herod The Fox

Charles Booker
March 18, 2025

Honoring Women's History Month. What could the comforting and fierce maternal spirit of Jesus teach us in these times of great uncertainty and injustice? Luke 13:31-35.

Charles Booker
March 11, 2025

March 9: Welcome to Lent: Let Go ... Let God ... Let Grow

Charles Booker
March 11, 2025

Scripture: Luke 4:1-3. Midst the DC desert wilderness surrounding us at this time, we learn from Jesus how to move forward - so that our civic responses may be grounded less in divine presumption, and more on divine dependence.

Charles Booker
March 4, 2025

The Transfiguration: From Ecstasy to Epilepsy, from Becoming Divine to Being Human

Charles Booker
March 4, 2025

Why, in this stressful DC time, is it important to ground our identity not in Jesus' divinity - but in our humanity?

Charles Booker
February 24, 2025

February 23: Our Deep River of Hope

Charles Booker
February 24, 2025

Where, 'midst the current civil chaos, lies our deepest hope? Rev. Chuck recalls Jesus' central proclamation - and references a paragon of the Wisdom Psalms (Psalm 37) to find out ...

Charles Booker
February 18, 2025

February 16 - Psalm 1: Pathway Picks

Charles Booker
February 18, 2025

Guest: Rev. Dr. Sharon Stanley-Rea, Director of Church World Service/DC. Following the recent federal plunder of refugee resources, Sharon's entire staff was furloughed. Listen here to her prophetic word!

Charles Booker
February 16, 2025

Fishy Faith - or, Between Fear and Hope

Charles Booker
February 16, 2025

Guest: The Rev. Adele Crawford. The deep water can be scary. How can we honor the gap between the fear of scarcity and the hope of abundance?

Charles Booker
February 5, 2025

February 2: When Love Is Not Enough

Charles Booker
February 5, 2025

Love is essential. Love is primary. Yet there are times - and in these chaotic times ... Luke 4:21-30

Charles Booker
January 27, 2025

January 26: Jesus' Inaugural Address

Charles Booker
January 27, 2025

Luke 4:14-21. Here we hear Jesus inaugurating his ministry ... and our own, words "fulfilled in our hearing". In these extraordinary days: where can his commission lead us?

Charles Booker
January 21, 2025

January 19: Practicing Intimacy in a Time of National Anxiety

Charles Booker
January 21, 2025

The Wedding at Cana (John 2:1-11). Facing the Inauguration ... Celebrating Dr. King: how to drink deep of Jesus' good wine when we fear its depletion?

Charles Booker
January 14, 2025

January 12: We Will Pass Through This

Charles Booker
January 14, 2025

Thursday, a President was redeemed. Friday, another was sentenced. January 20, a nation will begin serving time. With exile staring the faithful in the face: where lies our hope? Isaiah 43:1-7

Charles Booker
January 7, 2025

Can We Claim That "Jesus Grew" ?

Charles Booker
January 7, 2025

These two words from Luke 2:52 (sometimes translated as "Jesus increased") are more than many churches seem to claim! What does his experience as a boy in the Temple teach us about maturing as disciples today? Luke 2:41-52

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