Podcast Episodes

(From the Archives) Count Your Blessings... and Your Children — Aaron Thiessen

Continuing with the throwback series "Four Faces of the Prodigal Son," this time Aaron takes a look at the parable with the help of Jewish New Testament scholar, Amy-Jill Levine.

Published on 6 months ago

(From the Archives) The Prodigal Christ — Aaron Thiessen

Happy Pentecost Sunday! At REC, our practice is to accept new members into the church in the Sundays surrounding Pentecost, which means our sermons are replaced by stories from new members' lives—whi…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

(From the Archives) Conniving Repentance — Aaron Thiessen

For the next several Sundays at River East—due to Table Sundays, new member testimonies, and the annual church picnic—we won't have new sermons to upload to our podcast. Thus, for the next month, we'…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Love in Conflict; Faith of Christ — Aaron Thiessen

On May 25, Aaron took a look at the political turmoil behind the letter to the Galatians, and the emotions it seems to be stirring up in the Apostle Paul. What does love look like when our understand…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Love Beyond Boundaries: The Council of Jerusalem's Call to Grace — Charlotte Kroeker

On May 18, Charlotte used the image of a quilt as a way to enter the text of Acts 15:1-18—how both the early church and us today are being woven and re-woven into God's tapestry.

Published on 7 months ago

Centripetal Love? Or Centrifugal Love? — Aaron Thiessen

On May 11, Aaron stretched the metaphor of "Love makes the world go 'round" to include Newtonian physics, and then mapped it onto the story of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8:26-39.

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Eagle Love and Stephen's Witness — Niigaan Sinclair

On May 4, 2025, we were pleased to welcome Niigaan Sinclair to speak with us on Acts 6:1-7:2a, and 44-60. Niigaan is an Anishinaabe writer, editor, and activist in Winnipeg and heads the Department o…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Eagle-Eye Seeing on the Road to Emmaus — Mary Anne Isaak

On April 27, Mary Anne kicked off our exploration into Love this Eastertide—one of the Christian names for God, as well as one of the Seven Sacred Teachings of the Plains First Nations. Here we see h…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Easter in a Time of Rupture — Mary Anne Isaak

On Easter Sunday, Mary Anne reflected on the ways that collective 'ruptures' affect our public life together. Be it the bombing of Hiroshima, 9/11, or the discovery of the residential school graves h…

Published on 7 months, 4 weeks ago

Footwashing — Mary Anne Isaak

It's a short one this week.

At River East, it's our tradition to commemorate Christ's washing of the disciples' feet as part of our Palm Sunday service. This is the short meditation Mary Anne offered …

Published on 7 months, 4 weeks ago