Amy Oden Insights Blog for Church of the Resurrection Ephesians 2:11-20 Sometimes it’s harder to welcome the “near stranger” than the “far stranger.” The “near stranger” is the person we already know, who is part of our group, and who nevertheless seems like a stranger in their political views, their vaccine status, their voting patterns or their social commitments. It’s the people we share church with that are sometimes the hardest to welcome, to embrace as sibling, to recog

Romans 8:1-11 Church of the Resurrection Insights Blog Amy Oden Think back over the last week or so. When did you feel alive? Really alive? What was happening at the time? What did that feel like in your body? In your spirit? Sometimes feeling alive can be excitement over something new, a fresh energy about possibilities or the promising green shoots of new life. Sometimes feeling alive can be a quiet knowing, an awareness of contentment with things as they are or the overfl