Proper 21 A + Living Water + 9.27.26
M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( Exodus 17:1-7; Psalm 78:1-4, 12-16; Philippians 2:1-13; Matthew 21:23-32 ) Some of you are familiar with the farm church that was formed around the Abundant Table farm, and which now continues in a different iteration. When I would join the farm church for worship at a local community garden, often with Ted, our music director, I loved a simple moment in which we passed a container of water and used it to bless ourselves, lifting up water as a holy source of life in our area of Southern California and the Central Coast. Local theologian Ched Myers calls all of us in his book Watershed Discipleship to connect with and claim a relationship with our local watershed. For those of us in the Oxnard plain, we are part of the Ventura River Watershed. As we spend time at local sources of water, we feel more connected to our local ecology and also to our forebears on this land, and the indigenous people who continue to reside here as ...