Cascade Church Portland

Conversations Across Polarization

Chelsea Gerlach shares some incredibly practical next steps for engaging in polarizing conversations.

 

In this conversation Chelsea references Loretta Ross, and you can find her work here

Overcoming Polarization:: Annihilation vs Reconciliation

Kurt Kroon shares on the story of Jonah about the tendencies we have to idealize and demonize folks as a means of feeling safe and God's movement to reconcile all people. 

The End of Gatekeeping

Kurt Kroon shares about Paul, Colossians 2 and how Christ moves us to end gatekeeping. 

Reparations & The Church

Leroy Barber joins us to share about the US's history of reparations and how the scriptures talk about making repairs. 

Jesus & Civil Rights

This Sunday Kurt Kroon interviews Alvin Hayes about the link he sees in the Civil Rights movement and Jesus Christ. 

Jesus & Parables

Kurt Kroon looks at Luke 8 and the parable of the sower within the context of how we interpret parables today and some of the context around what Jesus in his context. 

Wisdom is Known By Her Children

Kurt Kroon discusses wisdom and how Jesus and John the Baptist are bringing this to us via radical inclusion through very different methods. 

Jesus' Flow of Gifts

On this Sunday Kurt Kroon shared about how Jesus negotiates the sacredness of who each person is and the potential of who we can become. This comes with a look at Luke 13:11-17 and the healing of a woman in the synagogue on the sabbath. 

Unfamiliar:: Judith &Susanna

Shelby Hanson leads us in a new message series that can give us fresh eyes on the parable structure and make unfamiliar what we've made familiar.  

Naturally Beautiful Project with Regina Morgan