Claim OwnershipThe Brown Line Church Podcast
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Thoughtful, enjoyable, and practical takes on Jesus-centered prayer and lifestyle practices meant to lead you into life, connect you with God, and help you grow personally and spiritually...
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When all land has been colonized, the new imperial frontier becomes our time and attention. Vince continues us in our effort to live ourselves into liberation thinking this Lent.Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
Continuing our Liberation for Lent theme, Hayley explores the connection between liberating our view of our own bodies and working toward bodily liberation for all. Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
Is faith just safe conversations about being good people in our private lives? What if the God Jesus shows is doing more in the world? Join us in giving up individualistic theologies for Lent, and turning instead toward liberation theologies.Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
We hope this helps you carve out a space of prayer today to begin Lent.Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
Hayley explores how faith helps us tell beautiful stories of the inevitable rockiness in friendships, when technology enables constant storytelling but also shapes our storytelling to avoid the rockiness.Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
Q&A from community discussion around why friendship feels so hard in a technological age, and what we can do to be a part of the solution rather than the problem.Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
Our technological age makes so much in life easier and smoother, but it might also endanger deep friendship, and maybe that’s serious! What do we do? Vince shares from his own friendships, from the Gospel of John, and from the social sciences. (Image from Paper Trident)Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
On the weekend America remembers Dr. King, Hayley and Vince talk about the power collective prayer in groups can have — from petition to protest, from ritual to refrain, from lament to lure.Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
Praying with someone can feel a bit more earnest or sincere than modern city people are used to, BUT there are ways to do it that can feel authentic to even the most savvy or knowing or hyper-self-conscious, and the connection it sparks is so worth it!Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
In our first of three practical messages on prayer to begin the new year, Vince teaches on how to have a personal prayer life, bringing us to the charming brilliance of the 17th century kitchen worker and monk Brother Lawrence.Spiritual Pathways resource: http://brownlinechurch.org/spiritual-pathways Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
Hayley’s reflection after our community’s unique take on the traditional Anglican “Lessons & Carols”. (Art: The Word became flesh, by Edie Mae Herrel, 1978)Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
What does it take to join God in “frustrating the ways of the wicked”? Hayley and Vince discuss for the third Sunday of Advent. (Art: Advent Candle by Lauren Plummer)Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
For the second Sunday of Advent, Hayley and Vince encourage us to participate in the continued incarnation of God right here in our very particular moment of 2025 America. (Art: Swords into Plowshares by Cara B. Hochhalter)Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
Along with our usual time for music and prayer, we’re hosting our annual meeting (instead of a message) — a time for updates and questions about the financial side of running our church. All are welcome, whether you consider yourself a stakeholder in BLC or you’re just curious how this church does “family conversations”. Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
Vince and Kalif give a taster of the kinds of discussions happening in BLC’s Bible Study… for the people!BRUNCHES Sunday - Advent 2025https://forms.gle/QvErpBScu735WXH29 Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
Pulling together the ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the surprising depth of Australian kids cartoon “Bluey”, Vince shares about his complicated feelings around things like Veteran’s Day, as someone who is BOTH anti-military-industrial-complex AND grateful for the way the army saved his brother. (Bonhoeffer Icon by Kelly Latimore)SIGN UP FOR A BRUNCH NOV 30: https://forms.gle/QvErpBScu735WXH29 Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
Hayley closes our series on question-asking by posing a question that’s been on her mind: “How do we stay sane right now?” Is a desire for balance and stability a fruitless pursuit in the midst of ongoing chaos? Radical acceptance may be our way forward together. (Image from Fallon Michael on Unsplash)Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
The questions we ask in life tend to reveal what we wish to see, both in our own lives and in the world around us. Hayley looks to the story of Jesus healing a woman in a crowd (Mark 5:25-34) to explore how our questions of longing bring about new possibilities. (Art: Threnouses, 2005, by Zoie Lafis)Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
The questions people in our community are asking aren’t solved with neat and tidy answers; they require ongoing courage, risk, direction. With help from Psalm 90 and Søren Kierkegaard (the Christian grandfather of Existential thought), Vince tries to offer some guidance. (Art: The Scream, 1893, by Edvard Munch)Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
Hayley wants us to think about the questions we’re asking with our lives and our posture as we ask them, because our questions — not so much our answers — are how we live fully, fruitfully, meaningfully. (Photo by Jens Aber on Unsplash)Join our live chat! https://discord.gg/MNXJSM8New here? http://brownlinechurch.org/connectResources http://brownlinechurch.org/resources Donate http://brownlinechurch.org/donate
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