"One of the questions people of faith are asking over and over to ourselves lately is: How is God with us during this pandemic? I don’t know but I believe God is right there just beyond our perceiving. Waiting, gestating, wintering, and seeking for something better to be born out of this chaos just like God has always been through the history of the world."

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The Darkness of the Womb

When Zacharias burnt the incense the dark cloud of smoke became the presence of God. And then he left that experience of encountering God in the darkness and he was left speechless. There was a mystery which was held in the darkness that then was held in his silence and from that mystery John the Baptist began to gestate in the darkness of Elizabeth’s womb.

Darkness is Holy

Mourning

Adjusting Expectations

Stages of Grief

Nothing Can Separate Us

Reimaging Race and Privilege

Back to School Message from our kids

Reimagining the relationship between the church and the earth

Reimagining an altered life

New Covenants for a New World

If you had all the building blocks for a new world, what would you build? The pandemics of COVID-19 and white supremacy have revealed that many of our systems, institutions, and ideas aren't holding up the way we thought they might. But what if this moment is also a sacred opportunity to re-imagine ourselves, our communities, and even HopeGateWay? Over the next few weeks, we'll be exploring holy imagination and what could be on the other side of the pandemics.

Unbuilding & Rebuilding

Reimagining the church

Reimagining the future

Reimagining a better world

Welcome to Hope.Gate.Way, a missionally-oriented, inclusive United Methodist community in Portland, Maine. If you can't join us in person, we invite you to be challenged and inspired by this podcast of previous Sundays' messages.

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