Galileo Church

We seek and shelter spiritual refugees, rally health for all who come, and fortify every tender soul with the strength to follow Jesus into a life of world-changing service.

5860 I-20 service road Fort Worth, TX 76119 USA

(682) 760-1274

OUR MISSIONAL PRIORITIES:

1. We do justice for LGBTQ+ humans, and support the people who love them.

2. We do kindness for people with mental illness and in emotional distress, and celebrate neurodiversity.

3. We do beauty for our God-Who-Is-Beautiful.

4. We do real relationship, no bullshit, ever.

5. We do whatever it takes to share this good news with the world God still loves.

Trying to find us IRL?
Mail here: P.O. Box 668, Kennedale, TX 76060
Worship here: 5 pm CT Sundays; 5860 I-20 service road, Fort Worth 76119

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Baby driver

It’s the new year, liturgically speaking, with a transition to Luke’s gospel as the guide for the coming year. We’ll expand the readings from the Revised Common Lectionary to get a bit more narrative integrity for the coming of the Christ-child, with an emphasis on the cosmic renovation that Jesus is even before he can speak to us.

Apocalypse or climate change? This story starts at the end: Jesus ranting about seas rising, nations falling, natural disasters that portend a calamitous future. It sounds all too real right now. What is the response of the faithful to climate change? What has God to do with ecodisaster?

Tender mercies for our enemies, too? In a polarized political and relational climate, how do we maintain our integrity while also interfacing with humans we disagree with and maybe even hate?

New regime, new economy. John’s instructions to those who ask how to prepare for the coming messiah are all economic (vv. 10-14). How does Jesus coming into the world and into our lives disrupt our own economies?

Beautiful losers. Mary is nobody from nowhere, young and in trouble, no Planned Parenthood in sight, her life basically over. But she sings of her own empowerment, of the advantage that comes to those who are last in this world. God’s imagined future is her fuel.

The nobility of the shitty job. Out of everybody the angels could have appeared to that night – shepherds! Was everyone else too busy to see them? Too focused to look up? In bed, with the privilege of daytime work? Could we find here a redemption of our own shitty jobs – the ones we’ve had, the ones we have now? Does God’s favor extend to people who are working tonight, on Christmas Eve?

What if we wait our whole lives... We live accelerated lives. Everything is fast. But the life of faith is s-l-o-w. On God’s timeline, you could wait your whole life, fasting and praying in the temple, for one glimpse of one baby, and say “I can die now.” We’re invited to see our lives, our generation, as one in a long line of the faithful, stretching out behind and before us, like Simeon, like Anna.

The kids are all right. If last Sunday honored the long lifetime wait, this Sunday speaks to the possibility of youth as a revelation of what God is going to do next. Here, God is revealed as Jesus’s “father” (much to Joseph’s chagrin, I imagine), and we catch the foreshadowing of his provocative engagement with scripture and VRPs as he begins to imagine what comes next.

Son of God, Son of Humanity. This is Jesus, blissfully in tune with God and the human family, the mediator who understands us both, the peacemaker, the one who stands in the gap, Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets to Live In.