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Galileo Church – a congregation of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) – is a progressive Christian faith community in Mansfield, Texas. Our pastor – Rev. Dr. Katie Hays – likes to talk. She really loves to talk about the difficult, messy, and confusing questions that arise from trying to understand Jesus. These are some of the things she (and occasionally other friends of ours) shares with us in her sermons.
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Nostalgia is Bullshit. Amid growing pains after the 10-year mark, Galileo is working on their 4th missional priority: Real relationship, no bullshit ever. How do we keep nostalgia from getting in the way of that work? How do we keep believing that this moral arc of the universe is, somehow, bending towards justice? Remi Shores is preaching. To tell…
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Great is Thy Faithfulness. One of the ways the ancient Israelites mourned the destruction of Jerusalem was by doing so as a community, together. Our cities may not be destroyed, but we have all lived through hard things. What can learn from our ancestors in faith about grieving together? Josh Bridges-Hickey is preaching. To tell us your thoughts on…
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Declaring the Day of Salvation. What does it mean to announce that today is the Day of Salvation? Carissa Robinson is preaching. To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. …
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Working Out an Embodied Faith. What happens when we fully inhabit our bodies? And what happens when the Christian church returns to the broken body of Christ? Carissa Robinson is preaching. To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.…
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We Miraculous Specimens. Shit is hard, we're all going to die, and every living body is still a relentless miracle. When everything dies and everyone grieves, what hope do we have to hold onto? What, and who, is this all for? Josh Bridges-Hickey is preaching. To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a c…
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God Calls Out to Us - A look at what's stirring in the silent, empty, and barren places, and a challenge to tune in to the questions these stir up— for from them, we might just hear the voice of God, calling out. From 1 Samuel 3. To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social …
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To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or Zelle (generosity@galileohurch…
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Happy Birthday, Church! Having contemplated our way of belonging and beholding, it’s time to consider the co-conspiracy once again. Also to commission our leaders on MLT and SCT. To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email …
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Be-Holding Each Other. Jesus identified his followers as “family,” and prayed that we would be as unified as he and God were unified. That’s not an idea – it’s a set of practices that we’ve been talking about all these weeks. To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social medi…
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Cultivation of Spiritual Gifts and Sharing of Resources for Our Life Together. Even Jesus needed help – the needs of the world were crushing him! His work in the world was a collective enterprise almost from the beginning. And so is ours... What help does each one offer? To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and …
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Participation in the Church’s Discernment for Our Next Steps Together. God has got stuff going on – new wine, if you will – and sometimes it’s the church’s job to just catch up. We’re in perpetual discernment mode, never wanting to get stuck – because God will move TF on. To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and…
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Gracious Receipt of Care from the Church Family. The man on the mat has to let himself be moved...examined...forgiven...healed...challenged. It’s a level of vulnerability not everyone can achieve. Deanne’s ordination! To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Faceb…
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Extension of the Church’s Welcome to Friends, Neighbors, Strangers, and Enemies. The leper couldn’t help himself: Jesus said “Shhh” but he told everybody. To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way…
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Easter service at Galileo Church 2024. To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Pat…
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The Scattering. In a sense, the creation-of-the-world story isn’t over until chapter 11. Throughout, God has been observing, evaluating, demolishing, renovating... and now God is redecorating, scattering and spreading the human family. That spread was God’s intention all along – that the human family would “fill the earth.” It’s our tendency to clu…
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“I will never again.” God makes a decision: wipe it out, start over. But then God decides differently: “I’ll never do that again.” How do we wrestle with a God who learns as God goes? To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, e…
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East of Eden. The enmity between human beings is the immediate symptom and consequence of the brokenness. In the world “east of Eden” – which is the world we all live in now – competition for scarce resources feels real. To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Fa…
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Truth and consequences. Even the ground is broken now – yielding thorns instead of food. God names the consequences for the humans’ impudence, and also clothes them compassionately. To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, ema…
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They knew that they were naked. The originary humans come of age, their naivete spoiled. Let’s talk about whether that’s the ruination of humanity, or the completion of our “image-of-God- ness.” To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Insta…
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Naked and Unashamed. We probably can’t talk enough about the loving care that God has for our bodies, especially because the counter-testimony (your body is wrong, dangerous, untrustworthy, problematic) is so strong. We remember that one of the first signs of the humans’ brokenness in chp. 3 is their strong desire to cover up. Genesis 2 calls us ba…
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Tilling & Keeping this Blessed Rock. When we think of “relationships” we’re usually speaking of people or Persons – relationships with family or friends, or perhaps with God. Maybe, for some of us, there’s a sense of “relationship” with an animal companion, but we sense that it’s not entirely mutual. (Fight me.) But what is the nature of the relati…
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Rest Finishes the Work. Fundamentalists speak of a “six-day creation” – but that misses the work of the seventh day, which is rest. What if no job is really complete until there’s been time to rest from it? To let it sink into our tired bones, for us to process the work with our loved ones or in our dreams, to get some distance from the work and le…
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The Quotidian Mysteries. In a book of this name, Kathleen Norris explores laundry as a spiritual practice. It relates to God’s creative work on the first several days when God is not mainly making something out of nothing, but rather separating this from that – light from dark, water from land, sky from surface, etc. God as an Orderer calls us to m…
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It’s all good. In the opening story of our sacred text, we encounter God’s imagination and intention in making a world that is good, and very good. Our faith has sometimes jumped too quickly to the brokenness of all things, but that’s not where God starts, nor where we begin. How would our theology be different if we started, always, from the goodn…
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Judea. Jesus’s sense of self requires that he turn toward Jerusalem – toward the concentration of religious and political power that will steal his life and threaten his followers. In what sense is this destiny his “home”? In Christian iconography, he has lived on the cross for 2,000 years... To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through t…
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