"The essence of all beautiful art is gratitude.” – Friedrich Nietzche

What happens after we die? In 2019, you don’t need to consult holy scriptures in order to find answers to the mysteries of the afterlife — you just need to turn on the TV.

What is minimalism? It is an intention to live more simply, thereby making time and space in our lives for the things that matter most

What is it about Jesus that fascinates you or drives you crazy? What about Jesus confounds and confuses you?

Just as no two accounts of the death and resurrection of Jesus are the same, no two people celebrate and honor Lent in the same way.

Sports can also teach us valuable life lessons about playing as a team, working together, dealing with winning, losing, and adversity. Have you ever played a sport? What did it teach you?

These movies remind us to be grateful, to laugh, to look back on our own Christmases past, to reclaim some of the mystey and magic of Christmas. They make us laugh, cry, and feel some of the joy and love of the season.

One of the great mystics, Meister Eckhart, once wrote, "If the only prayer we ever utter to God is 'Thank you" that is enough."

A conversation about the future of faith, especially as it relates to our digital world (which is the world today).

Bradon will share about his work and the spiritual landscape in Australia, and his learnings from his recent research trip across the U.S.

“Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general of the United States, has said many times in recent years that the most prevalent health issue in the country is not cancer or heart disease or obesity. It is isolation.”

Is church a place of refuge and sanctuary, or a place that works for social change? Is it both and what is the balance?

“you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

How did you discover your purpose in life, who you God made you to be? Did it happen in a moment? Was it an evolution?

"You have the skills, what conversations should we (and the world) start having?"

Many people wanted us to continue this conversation and open it up to more people, and that is just what we are going to do at our next God on Tap.

We are living in polarizing times and many people are finding it difficult to have conversations with family and friends with differing political, religious, or cultural points of view.

In such difficult years and challenging times, the message and promise of Christmas feels all the more important and poignant. Jesus himself was born into a difficult and challenging time—under Roman oppression in first-century Palestine, born in a stable, greeted by lowly shepherds. His mother, Mary, is a symbol of faith and hope for the way she accepted God's call to bear God's Son, and for the way she brought Jesus into the world. Jesus was the light shining in the darkness, which the darkness could not overcome.

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.” - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Soren Kirkegaard once wrote that “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”