Zao MKE Church

Protest Sunday

On Palm/Protest Sunday, how do we join Jesus in gathering people power to stand up against the violence of empire?

Lent: Where You Go I'll Go

Lent: From Disassociation to Embodiment

Lent: From Distraction To Intention

When we allow our attention to be scattered and commodified, we find ourselves investing our time, energy, and even worship on things we didn't choose. How do we lay down the idols we've created as a culture, and cultivate and attentive intention where we choose what we love instead of being lured into someone else's attention trap?

Lent: There Your Heart Lies Also

In a world where numbing out sometimes feels like the only way of getting by, what does it mean to be fully alive? Spend the next 40 days of Lent with the Zao community fasting from distraction, dissociation, and detachment, and moving into a faith of intention, embodiement, and devotion.

Basics: From Death To New Life

We can't understand the teachings of Jesus without the cross and resurrection. Beyond individual salvation, what does that move from confrontation of empire, to death at the hands of the state, to resurrection in glory teach us about what it means to be free - for all of us to be free?

Basics: Because We Have Each Other

Jesus knew about scarcity - he was teaching in a desert, after all. But trust, surrender, and abundance were central to his teachings. How can we be open handed with what we've got, trusting that giving it away is the only way we all get what we need?

Basics: Turn the Other Cheek

One of Jesus's most famous sayings, "turn the other cheek," seems to have gotten lost in the modern "christian" nationalist agenda of vengeance and retribution. What did Jesus actually mean by that, and how do we embody it as faithful Jesus followers without getting absolutely crushed? Turns out its the only reliable path to liberation. 

Basics: Pray in This Way

The Lord’s Prayer/Our Father is central to many Christian traditions and practices, but what does it really mean?

Basics: Love God and Neighbor

We’re kicking off a series focusing on the core tenets of Jesus’s teachings. Amid the rise of Christian nationalism and Christofascism, it’s more crucial than ever that we have clarity on what it truly means to follow Jesus. We’re starting with what Jesus identified as the foundation of all other teachings: Love God, and Love Neighbor as Self.