This Advent season, join The Collective Table Podcast each weekday of December for a special reflection led by Jenell Coker. Each week, the reflections will focus around a different theme of Advent: Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. We hope these short meditations can be a meaningful part of your Advent practice.

We want you to join the conversation. Leave us a voicemail at (760) 722-8522 and let us know what is on your mind. You can also send us an email at tct@oceansidesanctuary.org. Thank you for listening and we hope to hear from you soon!

Welcome to The Collective Table, where we celebrate the intersections of Jesus, Justice, and Joy! This podcast is brought to you by The Oceanside Sanctuary Church. Each week, we bring our listeners a recording of our weekly Sunday teaching at Oceanside Sanctuary, which ties scripture into the larger conversations happening in our community, congregation and podcast. We’re glad you’re here—thanks for listening.

This week, Claire's lesson is entitled "Deep Solidarity" and is based on the scripture found in Luke 12:13-21 (The Parable of the Rich Fool).

To learn more about our community or to support the work we do, visit us at https://oceansidesanctuary.org. We hope to see you again soon!

“What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience …”
– Hannah Arendt

In this week’s episode, Claire and Jason listen back to a conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous, who draws from Arendt’s ideas that loneliness and social isolation are essentially preconditions for totalitarianism. Together, they explore the crisis of loneliness, as well as rituals and practices which go against a current of individualism and competition.

Reflective Questions for Listeners:

• How do you see loneliness and social isolation contributing to extremist movements in our communities, country, and world?
• Who or what in your life is focused on connection, support, and working together? How does this push back against the culture of individualism, power struggles, and competition?
• What rituals challenge you to look someone in the eye and ask, what happened to you?

To hear the full original interview with Rabbi Brous, visit our archive here: https://the-collective-table.castos.com/episodes/rabbi-sharon-brous-the-amen-effect

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Thank you for being a part of season 9! This season may be over but we have some incredible episodes coming your way soon, starting with Advent and moving into 2025. So don’t be a stranger, we will see you soon!

In the meantime, we want you to join the conversation. Leave us a voicemail at (760) 722-8522 and let us know what is on your mind. You can also send us an email at tct@oceansidesanctuary.org. Thank you for listening and we hope to hear from you soon!

Welcome to The Collective Table, where we celebrate the intersections of Jesus, Justice, and Joy! This podcast is brought to you by The Oceanside Sanctuary Church. Each week, we bring our listeners a recording of our weekly Sunday teaching at Oceanside Sanctuary, which ties scripture into the larger conversations happening in our community, congregation and podcast. We’re glad you’re here—thanks for listening.

This week, Jason's lesson is entitled "Lonely Places" and is based on the scripture found in Luke 5:16.

To learn more about our community or to support the work we do, visit us at https://oceansidesanctuary.org. We hope to see you again soon!

Welcome to The Collective Table, where we celebrate the intersections of Jesus, Justice, and Joy! This podcast is brought to you by The Oceanside Sanctuary Church. Each week, we bring our listeners a recording of our weekly Sunday teaching at Oceanside Sanctuary, which ties scripture into the larger conversations happening in our community, congregation and podcast. We’re glad you’re here—thanks for listening.

This week, Jason's lesson is entitled "Deep Humility" and is based on the scripture found in John 13:1-17.

To learn more about our community or to support the work we do, visit us at https://oceansidesanctuary.org. We hope to see you again soon!

On the evening of Sunday, November 3rd, The Oceanside Sanctuary Church came together for a special candlelight vigil, marking a sacred pause before Election Week. In the glow of candlelight, we gathered to lift our hopes and fears, joining our voices in prayer for peace and unity during this critical time. Our service included scripture, readings, prayers, music, and heartfelt reflections.

As the nation heads to the polls today—November 5th, 2024—we offer these words to you, our listeners, as a source of strength and peace. In times of division and uncertainty, it is our hope that these reflections serve as a reminder of our shared humanity and our deep yearning for a future rooted in compassion, justice, and understanding.

Whether you approach this week with hope, apprehension, or even lament, may these moments from our vigil hold space for all that you carry. Join us as we listen, reflect, and, together, hold a vision of a world made whole.

The Collective Table is a production of The Oceanside Sanctuary Church, a progressive Christian community rooted in inclusivity, inspiration, and the peace and justice of Christ. Learn more at https://www.oceansidesanctuary.org/. We would love to hear from you. Reach out at tct@oceansidesanctuary.org, or leave us a voicemail at (760) 722-8522. You may even be featured in a future episode.

In this powerful episode, Jenell and Claire dive into The Collective Table archives to revisit the “See No Stranger” book club conversation featuring Valarie Kaur. Valarie, a renowned civil rights activist, author, and speaker, has dedicated her life to promoting revolutionary love—a concept she describes as "the choice to enter into labor for others who do not look like us, for our opponents who hurt us, and for ourselves."

Guided by Valarie's words from the 2022 book club discussion and her 2017 TED Talk, today’s conversation explores Valarie’s approach to love as a labor that is "fierce, bloody, imperfect, life-giving." Jenell and Claire choose three transformative themes from Kaur's work, offering reflections on listening with wonder, laboring within privileged spaces, and learning to care for ourselves in the process.

Reflective Questions for Listeners:

• Has anyone with differing views listened to your story with empathy and wonder?
• This episode discusses roles in the labor of revolutionary love. Do you have a sense of your role in this work?
• What practices help you to stay grounded and ready to engage with others’ stories compassionately?

To hear the full original interview with Valarie Kaur, visit our archive here: https://the-collective-table.castos.com/episodes/valarie-kaur-see-no-stranger

We'd love to hear from you! Reach out at tct@oceansidesanctuary.org, or leave us a voicemail at (760) 722-8522. You may even be featured in a future episode.

The Collective Table is a production of The Oceanside Sanctuary Church, a progressive Christian community rooted in inclusivity, inspiration, and the peace and justice of Christ. Learn more at https://www.oceansidesanctuary.org/.