Em Slezak explores the final installment of the Beatitudes and asks: Who do you want to bless? How do we envision our present and future?

Em SlezakForefront ChurchJuly 26, 2026identity, Matthew, Beatitudes

Land

Responding to current headlines suggesting the United States domination of land and beings is divinely sanctioned, Em Slezak asks, “Why and how has the idea of divinely-sanctioned ruin developed? Through wrestling with these questions and analyzing Genesis 1-2:4a, they seek renewal: alternative ways of being found both within and beyond the Biblical text.

Em SlezakForefront ChurchApril 19, 2026Genesis, Creation, eco-justice

Us vs. Them?

Jesus reveals and awakens us to radical visions of community. In the context of the Roman Empire, Jesus’s radical visions of community call his followers into conflict with the status quo. Preaching Bootcamper Em Slezak shows us how these awakenings push us to clarify, reconcile, and redefine kinship.