In today’s sermon Pastor Tom talks about creativity as a form of resistance to Empire. We are all called to be creative in ways that generously express our whole unique selves. When we do so we begin to create an alternative to imperial values of conformity, domination and violence.

Today Pastor Tom begins a 10 week sermon series entitled, “Living Resistance: Resisting Empire as a Way of Life.” He begins with an introduction of the practice of each person developing a “rule of life,” in the spirit of monastic rules such as St. Benedict’s. How can we resist the empire in the everyday habits…