St. Paul wrote that his one desire was to “know Christ and the power of his resurrection.” Such knowing is not obscure, esoteric, or mystical. It is a direct, personal and concrete experience of God using our history, personal and collective, the good and bad, as the ground of God’s mission in our world today. God takes what has gone wrong in our lives and uses it as the means of making compassion come alive in us, and inspiring mission.
Drawing on St. Paul’s experience of the risen Christ (not an entirely easy experience!) and on his own experience leading a parish through a multi-year conversation with a history soaked in racial violence, our Interim Associate Rector, the Rev. Robert Fruehwirth, will reflect closely on how God transforms sin, and all that has gone wrong in our lives, as the means of revealing God’s mercy — inspiring love, mission, and connection. This Forum will ground, theologically, the work of racial justice and reconciliation today.