The Wild Indigo Guild

Find a space to experience the scriptures this day through imaginative contemplation with spiritual director Lauren Burdette. Visit http://pghopendoor.org/holyweek for more offerings of prayer and scripture for Holy Week devotion.

Palm Sunday begins our journey through Holy Week. Visit pghopendoor.net for the full Journey Through Holy Week website and daily offerings of prayer, meditation, scripture and songs.

Today I interview Rebekah Berna and Providence Smith on the spiritual, communal and missional practice of encouragement. It's a great conversation with two amazing people, enjoy!

Today's sermon is on the practice of giving or the practice of generosity as made known through the gift of Jesus Christ.

Arturo Velasco serves as pastor of Leon de Juda (Lion of Judah Church) in Atizapan, Mexico, a suburb of Mexico City. Arturo's passion is to work with the poor, with homeless street children and with indigenous peoples throughout Mexico. He and his wife Elizabeth have helped leaders throughout the country be better equipped with the Good News of Jesus and see it's holistic affect on our lives. Arturo is a mission partner of The Open Door and has led many of us in experiencing the work of Jesus outside of our American setting. Our relationship with Arturo and Elizabeth has been one of mutual encouragement. Today we hear where that encouragement finds its root.

Today's podcast is a conversation about Eating as a Spiritual, Communal and Missional Practice with Kevin and Stephanie Bell. Enjoy! You can find info here on Stephanie's spiritual direction practice and check out their website Philoxenia.

The third of our practices is EAT! Quite simple! Food and our relationship to it has a spiritual, communal and missional consequences and potential. Today we hear from Rev. Lee Scott on this Open Door practice.

Peter is an elder in our church, a neighbor of mine, a friend and an inspiration in all things in sustainable design. Enjoy our conversation and consider how all of life invites us into a learning experience drawing us nearer to God, others and the whole of the natural world! Check out The Open Door and our music by This Side of Eve.

Dave is an entrepreneur, a teacher and a coach, also a dad and husband and member of the The Open Door. Dave runs the Center for Play and Exploration. Check out the website https://www.playandexploration.com/

As followers of Jesus, can we experience the world with childlike curiosity, with an expectation that we have so much goodness left to uncover? Dave helps adults develop skills in divergent thinking that will help us experience creation and ourselves in new and surprising way. Enjoy this conversation!

This past Sunday was the first Sunday of Lent. This month we are exploring, re-imagining and recommitting ourselves to the "practices of The Open Door." These are spiritual and communal practices that we think help ground us, and anyone for that matter, in the world and also in God's Kingdom. Listen in to this tag teamed sermon by John and Dr. Brock Bahler.