Zao MKE Church

Rebuilding: Who is God?

If we reject the idea of God as a bearded white man in the clouds, we're still left with a question: Who is God, and what are they like?

 

This season, join Zao for the series Rebuilding: Faith After Deconstruction. We'll talk about what to do now that the foundation of your faith is in shambles around you - do you pick it up? walk away? or can we build something new?

Rebuilding: Does Prayer Work?

Am I supposed to run everything by God? Does God really give us what we ask for? If my prayers aren't answered, was I not faithful enough?

 

Many of us have been taught toxic or simplistic messages about prayer - as though it is a cure-all, a measure of our faith, or a performance of our piety.

 

But scripture does instruct us to pray. So why do we do it, and does it work?

 

This season, join Zao for the series Rebuilding: Faith After Deconstruction. We'll talk about what to do now that the foundation of your faith is in shambles around you - do you pick it up? walk away? or can we build something new?

Rebuilding: Stop Worshipping Your Bible

What if the church has made an idol out of the Bible?

 

As so many of us deconstruct our faith, the Bible becomes more more troubling. What if the Bible isn't perfect? It doesn't need to be when we remember that the Bible isn't God.

 

This season, join Zao for the series Rebuilding: Faith After Deconstruction. We'll talk about what to do now that the foundation of your faith is in shambles around you - do you pick it up? walk away? or can we build something new?

Rebuilding: Faith After Deconstruction

So you've been deconstructing all the toxic teachings of the fundie church you grew up in. Now what?

 

This Sunday, Zao kicks off the series Rebuilding: Faith After Deconstruction. We'll talk about what to do now that the foundation of your faith is in shambles around you - do you pick it up? walk away? or can we build something new?

You Can’t Break My Soul

Special guest sermon by Dee Dee Watters

Dee Dee Watters (she/her/hers) is an unapologetic Black Woman of trans experience who is a mother, leader, healer, performer and recently stepping into her calling as a death doula. She’s a member of Freshwind Christian Fellowship under the guidance of Pastor Marvetta Walker.

Dee Dee is the publisher for TransGriot an online publication and the host of TransGriot Weekly. Nationally recognized for her leadership and advocacy around trans murders she asks that you join her in telling elected officials that trans rights are human rights! And we must ban the trans panic defense!

Underground: I See People As Trees

"I can see people," the man said, after Jesus touched his eyes. "But they look like trees, walking."

 

How do we perceive our world, and the people in it, when we are in the process of being healed? And how can we come to know the walking trees as human beings, made, like us, in the divine image of God?

 

Underground: Haters

Sometimes it feels like the haters just won't quit. Jesus actually dealt with them, too - and has something to say about where the hate comes from and where, exactly it can go 

 

Join us for Underground, a new series on the gospel of Mark. We'll trace Jesus's story from beginning to end, as he builds a movement while trying to stay off the grid until the right moment arrives for the showdown with empire at the cross. This is the gospel like you've never heard - tell no one.

Underground: Queering the Bible

How does our understanding of Jesus and the Bible change when we read it from a queer perspective? We'll take a single whole chapter and reinterpret story by story.

 

Not honored in his home town, creating abundance out of crumbs, and rocking a wardrobe so powerful that it'll heal your soul? Sounds queer to us!

 

Join us for Underground, a new series on the gospel of Mark. We'll trace Jesus's story from beginning to end, as he builds a movement while trying to stay off the grid until the right moment arrives for the showdown with empire at the cross. This is the gospel like you've never heard - tell no one.

Underground: Demonized

Empire demonizes the marginalized. Turns the oppressed into boogiemen. What if we have our ghost stories all wrong? Luckily, Jesus knows who the real demons are.

 

Join us for Underground, a new series on the gospel of Mark. We'll trace Jesus's story from beginning to end, as he builds a movement while trying to stay off the grid until the right moment arrives for the showdown with empire at the cross. This is the gospel like you've never heard - tell no one.

Underground: Take Root

Jesus said that not everyone who hears the Good News will be able to let it take root in them and flourish. So how do we cultivate ourselves as fertile ground - especially when systems of oppression grow up like thorns all around us?

 

Join us for Underground, a new series on the gospel of Mark. We'll trace Jesus's story from beginning to end, as he builds a movement while trying to stay off the grid until the right moment arrives for the showdown with empire at the cross. This is the gospel like you've never heard - tell no one.