Release and Renewal: Seeing with Mountaintop Eyes | May 25, 2025 | Rabbi Daniel Weiner

Release and Renewal: Seeing with Mountaintop Eyes | May 25, 2025 | Rabbi Daniel Weiner

What practices—spiritual or practical—help you resist systems that define people by wealth, productivity, or success? In a world that runs on exhaustion, profit, and performance, Rabbi Daniel Weiner brings a timely and powerful word: We were never meant to live this way. Drawing from the ancient Jewish practices of Shmita and Jubilee—sacred pauses for the land, for laborers, and for debtors—Rabbi Weiner calls us to imagine a different kind of world. One where the land gets to rest. One where people are freed from systems that dehumanize them. One where every person is treated with sacred worth.

What Matters Most is Love Like This

We’ve heard this message before: “Love one another.” But this time, it hits differently. In this sermon, Rev. Liz Costello invites us to revisit Jesus’ new commandment—not as a gentle suggestion, but as a clear and costly commission. Set during the season of Easter and echoing the foot washing of Maundy Thursday, this message explores what agape love looks like when it moves from words to action. This is the kind of love that kneels. The kind that sees Christ in others. The kind that’s willing to get messy, humble, and real. Drawing on Peter’s story in Acts and the Episcopal Church’s recent public stance on refugee policy, Rev. Liz reminds us that foot-washing love isn’t abstract—it’s embodied. It’s a love that upholds the dignity of every human being, even when it’s inconvenient or uncomfortable. This is what matters most. Scriptures: John 13:31-35 | Revelation 21:1-6 | Acts 11:1-18 Learn more at stthomasmedina.org [https://www.stthomasmedina.org]

A Conversation with Scott Gunn

In anticipation of his visit with us on November 2-3, Mother Liz spoke with the Rev. Scott Gunn, Executive Director of Forward Movement.

A Conversation with Dean Andrew Tremlett

In anticipation of his visit with us on October 26-27, Mother Liz spoke with Dean Andrew Tremlett, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.