REVELATION

Collective Care Looks Ahead

As the Collective Care in Uncaring Times series comes to a close, this teaching invites us to consider what collective care looks like when we look beyond the immediate moment. Reflecting on Corinthians and Revelation, we explore the idea that we are invited to collaborate with the Divine in building communities and a world that can outlast us. Even when disappointment, loss, and uncertainty make it difficult to imagine a hopeful future, we can continue the work of nurturing, repairing, and renewing what has been entrusted to us. Looking ahead, then, becomes an act of hope, humility, and collective care.

Review Leah’s notes here and listen to or watch the teaching below.

Collective Care Looks Ahead (August 16, 2026)
Leah Martens

Beauty In Creation

The following is audio with images, plain audio, and notes from the teaching given by Leah on April 17, 2016.  Feel free to listen online, download, or read the notes.  This teaching is the fourth in our series, "In Search of Beauty."

Beauty in Creation
Leah Martens

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Revolution. Seriously.

William Joseph Seymour was an African-American man born in Louisiana in 1870.  His childhood was not an easy one.  His parents, Simon and Phyllis were former slaves.  William was the oldest in a large family that lived in abject poverty.  He grew up in a dangerous time for African-Americans in the south.  The KKK actively terrorized the blacks of southern Louisiana, and violence against them was extremely common.