Textuality | David Roberts & Blair Gore
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Textuality | David Roberts & Blair Gore

Maybe you're someone for whom the Bible used to hold such promise. It gave you a sense of meaning, a clarity of purpose. You found God there. But now things aren't quite as clear. Or perhaps you're someone for whom the Bible has been a source of trauma. Others lorded its words over you and now - if you're to have any kind of relationship with it at all - it must be one of emancipation, transgressing the limits the Bible once placed upon you in favor of a hopeful freedom. Maybe both of these stories have been true for you.

Join us this summer as we allow the Bible to speak in new and unexpected ways. Whether you long for the Bible to live again in your life or you yearn to finally put its last vestiges of control over you to rest, we believe something surprising, something liberating, and something new awaits.

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Textuality | Josh Scott
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Textuality | Josh Scott

Maybe you're someone for whom the Bible used to hold such promise. It gave you a sense of meaning, a clarity of purpose. You found God there. But now things aren't quite as clear. Or perhaps you're someone for whom the Bible has been a source of trauma. Others lorded its words over you and now - if you're to have any kind of relationship with it at all - it must be one of emancipation, transgressing the limits the Bible once placed upon you in favor of a hopeful freedom. Maybe both of these stories have been true for you.

Join us this summer as we allow the Bible to speak in new and unexpected ways. Whether you long for the Bible to live again in your life or you yearn to finally put its last vestiges of control over you to rest, we believe something surprising, something liberating, and something new awaits.

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Textuality | Cedric Lundy
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Textuality | Cedric Lundy

Maybe you're someone for whom the Bible used to hold such promise. It gave you a sense of meaning, a clarity of purpose. You found God there. But now things aren't quite as clear. Or perhaps you're someone for whom the Bible has been a source of trauma. Others lorded its words over you and now - if you're to have any kind of relationship with it at all - it must be one of emancipation, transgressing the limits the Bible once placed upon you in favor of a hopeful freedom. Maybe both of these stories have been true for you.

Join us this summer as we allow the Bible to speak in new and unexpected ways. Whether you long for the Bible to live again in your life or you yearn to finally put its last vestiges of control over you to rest, we believe something surprising, something liberating, and something new awaits.

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Signs and Wonders | Kim Honeycutt
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Signs and Wonders | Kim Honeycutt

Life doesn't fit comfortably into binary, either/or categories. Despite our frequent attempts to separate the spiritual from the material or the personal from the political, the way of Jesus insists on more complexity. The moral arc of the universe does not magically bend towards justice. Liberation takes work.

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Signs and Wonders | Colby Martin
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Signs and Wonders | Colby Martin

Life doesn't fit comfortably into binary, either/or categories. Despite our frequent attempts to separate the spiritual from the material or the personal from the political, the way of Jesus insists on more complexity. The moral arc of the universe does not magically bend towards justice. Liberation takes work.

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Signs and Wonders | Cedric Lundy
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Signs and Wonders | Cedric Lundy

Life doesn't fit comfortably into binary, either/or categories. Despite our frequent attempts to separate the spiritual from the material or the personal from the political, the way of Jesus insists on more complexity. The moral arc of the universe does not magically bend towards justice. Liberation takes work.

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Signs and Wonders  | Matt O’Neil
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Signs and Wonders | Matt O’Neil

Life doesn't fit comfortably into binary, either/or categories. Despite our frequent attempts to separate the spiritual from the material or the personal from the political, the way of Jesus insists on more complexity. The moral arc of the universe does not magically bend towards justice. Liberation takes work.

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Signs and Wonders: Introduction | David Roberts
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Signs and Wonders: Introduction | David Roberts

Life doesn't fit comfortably into binary, either/or categories. Despite our frequent attempts to separate the spiritual from the material or the personal from the political, the way of Jesus insists on more complexity. The moral arc of the universe does not magically bend towards justice. Liberation takes work.

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A Morning with the Nakedpastor
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A Morning with the Nakedpastor

Teaching Team Member Shawn Bowers Buxton starts her talk on April 16, 2023 with a discussion about the Doctrine of Discovery - a Catholic concept recently renounced that excused the violent seizure of land from indigenous peoples . Being raised Catholic, Shawn discusses how her oppressors formed the foundation of her faith practice and that her own deconstruction of these ideas is an act of decolonization.

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Doctrine of Discovery | Shawn Bowers Buxton | Watershed Charlotte
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Doctrine of Discovery | Shawn Bowers Buxton | Watershed Charlotte

Teaching Team Member Shawn Bowers Buxton starts her talk on April 16, 2023 with a discussion about the Doctrine of Discovery - a Catholic concept recently renounced that excused the violent seizure of land from indigenous peoples . Being raised Catholic, Shawn discusses how her oppressors formed the foundation of her faith practice and that her own deconstruction of these ideas is an act of decolonization.

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Easter Sunday | Kim Honeycutt | Watershed Charlotte
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Easter Sunday | Kim Honeycutt | Watershed Charlotte

Teaching Team member and Psychotherapist Kim Honeycutt shares a message on Easter Sunday 2023 that explores powerful idea of what was behind on the cross during Jesus' crucifixion, weaving in elements of her own experience of recovery, and the idea that we've been empowered to become who God has always intended for us to be.

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Guest Speaker: Dr. Leah Robinson | Watershed Charlotte
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Guest Speaker: Dr. Leah Robinson | Watershed Charlotte

Watershed first became connected to Dr. Leah Robinson during Theology Beer Camp. And when we realized that she’s just a short drive up the road at Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, NC, we knew we had to have her come and speak. On March 26, 2023 she did just that and shared and incredible talk aimed at liberation and drawing deeply on her own academic work in exploring the divine.

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The Good News that We’re All a Little Bit Extra | David Roberts
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The Good News that We’re All a Little Bit Extra | David Roberts

What if there was a more hopeful way to understand sin, not as a kind of moral offense but as a sense of lack or longing we all share? And what if that lack was also not something to be shunned but rather a reflection of the image or God within all of us? We explored these ideas and more in week three of our series, The Divine and Me.

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The Divine and Me | Reverend Rob Lee IV
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The Divine and Me | Reverend Rob Lee IV

The Reverend Rob Lee IV joins us today for the second week of our series called The Divine and Me. Rob does a great job at discussing the nuances of divinity and humanity and why it matters to have conversations about the divine today in 2023.

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The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie | Cedric Lundy
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The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie | Cedric Lundy

Teaching Pastor Cedric Lundy flexes his perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe as he opens Watershed’s new series on reclaiming ideas from our spiritual past called The Divine and Me. Cedric uses the metaphor of his process for creating the perfect chocolate chip cookies to explore the importance of deconstructing and reconstructing – of reclaming – our spiritual lives in beautiful and intentional ways.

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