05/29/2026
This week, we continue our series A Faith That Resists Empire with a communal conversation about bodies, burnout, rest, and resistance.
In our Sunday’s sermon, Bodies Are Not Machines: Rejecting Hustle, Embracing Slowness, we’ll explore how empire has long taught us to treat bodies as objects to control, exploit, commodify, and optimize — from colonized bodies forced into labor and stripped of dignity, to modern systems that measure human worth through productivity, performance, consumption, and even curated leisure.
Rather than a traditional sermon alone, this gathering will center a live conversation with Ryan Chin and Jordyn Dahlke as we reflect together on hustle culture, spiritual formation, identity, embodiment, rest, and what it means to reclaim our humanity in a world obsessed with achievement and optimization.
Together, we’ll reflect on how empire disconnects us from our bodies, one another, and the earth through systems of colonization, capitalism, performance, and commodification — and how tuning into earth’s rhythms, slowness, embodiment, and Beloved Community can help us reclaim our shared humanity and interconnectedness while offering a more grounded, compassionate path for the spiritual life.
📍 Guin Foss Elementary
🕰 Sunday at 10:30 AM
