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Our You Version Plans are based on our weekly lectionary reflections called Word from Below.

Curious about what our Word from Below reflections looks like? Here are some recent examples:

Come Inside, The Feast Has Already Begun

By Mario Luis Matos | March 18, 2025

I have spent much of my life feeling like the prodigal son who squandered his Father’s gifts. I was raised in a Christian tradition that often made me believe my worth depended on how well I followed the rules. Like many emerging leaders I serve in the barrios of Santo Domingo, I learned to see God as a strict master who expected perfection, not as a loving father who runs toward his lost child with open arms. I was always trying to earn my place, afraid that I had already lost it.

Symbolic Universe

By Kris Rocke | February 28, 2025

He was asked to lead a seminar for urban youth. A young lady walked in just as it was about to start and asked what the topic would be. When he told her it was about how to survive in the city, she immediately replied, “Oh, that’s easy! You only need three things…”

Searching for Grace in the Maha Kumbh

By Angelika Gier | February 19, 2025

Let me paint a picture for you: On a single day, a crowd of more than 76.4 million, called by their immovable faith, took a dip in the holy waters of the river ‘Sangam’, which is a confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers. While the Ganges is clear and shallow, the Yamuna River is greenish, deep and one of the most polluted rivers in India. The Saraswati River is invisible and considered mythical.

What Is Not Included

By Jenna Smith | January 16, 2025

The first time I spoke the words above in a community reading, written as a benediction, I noticed they kept out the last part of the second verse in Isaiah 61, “…and the day of vengeance of our God.” I was quick to judge this hermeneutical decision and assumed that the liturgists were exercising some sort of comfortable or convenient pacifism (consider this anecdote the confession of my 20-something self, who of course knew everything back then).

Transforming the Crowd

By Fred Laceda | July 26, 2024

This week’s lectionary text focuses on a well-known story from the Bible. It combines two famous events involving Jesus’ reported miraculous acts: feeding the five thousand and walking on water. But within these amazing acts are details that may reveal more than we first realized.

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