Read this week’s newsletter here: The Weekly Liberal June 7

In this week’s issue, guest preacher, Lena K. Gardner, writes about her upcoming sermon:

Things don’t often just emerge out of nothing. There are usually (and in most cases) a whole host of circumstances and unknowable intersecting things that conspire so that something can emerge – and it usually emerges as a response to a need. How can we begin to curate emergence as a need-based, love-infused response to the inherited world around us? How do we recognize what it means to create a loving response in our individual lives and collective world? Just as our needs are, our lives can be beautifully and continually emerging. This emergence can be curated, it need not be just something that is enacted upon us. We are both capable of and called to create responses to these continuously arising needs and we always have a choice in lacing our response with love, or shrouding it with fear and shame. Will we be rigid, inflexible and out of touch? Or will we be warm, responsive, nimble and yet persistent? This Sunday, we’ll explore emergence as curated response to a need.