Yes! We're Open: Living Faith with Needham UCC
Rev. John MacIver Gage uses insight, humor, hard truth and amazing grace to help us make sense of our Christian faith in our daily life and vice-versa. The Congregational Church of Needham is a radically inclusive, justice-seeking Christian community, a member congregation of the United Church of Christ denominational family. Join us for worship LIVE! via Zoom Sundays @ 10am. Connection info and more at www.NeedhamUCC.org.
Podcasting since 2020 • 97 episodes
Yes! We're Open: Living Faith with Needham UCC
Latest Episodes
Choices (January 25, 2026)
In the Sunday school classic story from Matthew's Gospel, Jesus approaches Peter and Andrew, James and John along the lakeshore and offers them a choice: To follow him, or not. But there's definitely more than just a Sunday school context to th...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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24:49
Hope: We Make the Road by Walking (October 19, 2025)
It's the end of the world... at least the end of the world as we've known it. How can we have hope with everything falling down around our ears? We can't. Because hope isn't something we have (or don't). Prophets and poets and our neighbors in ...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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17:43
We Will Not Bow or Be Bowed (January 18, 2026)
As followers of Jesus, our ultimate allegiance is to the God Who Is Love, and we are called to manifest that love in justice and peace for our neighbors. But that commitment is being sorely tested these days with the rise of fascist ideology an...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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30:17
4 Calling Birds Sunday: Anna & Simeon, a Guided Meditation
Enjoy a guided meditation reflecting on the story of Anna and Simeon, the elderly prophets who greeted Mary, Joseph, and the Baby Jesus in the temple in Luke 2:22-40. Remember: YOU are a child of God, gifted, and a gift. Join us for...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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22:40
There Is God (September 7, 2025)
Somewhere along the way, Christianity become professionalized. All too often these days we look to clergy to tell us all about God--most particularly, about where and how God is allowed to show up in our lives. And those "allowed appearances" h...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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