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The Table Church is a multiracial, LGBTQI+ Affirming, Jesus-centered congregation in Washington, DC. Our vision is to embody a more beautiful gospel that announces collective liberation and the renewal of all things.
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Who Actually Gets Invited to the Table (opens the original)
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Every community has a guest list — and every guest list has an unspoken logic about who makes the cut. Tochi digs into why we default to inviting people who already look, think, and live like us, and what gets lost when we do. Using Encanto's "We don't talk about Bruno" and Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer as entry points, Tochi traces a throughline: families, institutions, and even religious spaces have a habit of erasing whoever makes them uncomfortable. Then he turns to a 2,000-year-old story J
Who Told You That You Couldn't Dream Big? (opens the original)
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Why do so many of us secretly believe there are things we're not allowed to want — a school, a job, a kind of joy — because of who we are? Antonio unpacks how internalized limits get planted early, and how they quietly run our lives long after we've "made it." Drawing on his own story — from a debate opponent who couldn't picture him in college, to strangers who couldn't picture him as a lawyer — Antonio traces a different way of seeing, one shaped by time spent in Malawi and by a 2,000-year-old
What Happened After the Black Squares (opens the original)
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Remember 2020? The marches, the black squares, the sense that everything was about to change? Six years later, a lot of that momentum has quietly faded back into business as usual. This episode sits with an uncomfortable question: what's the real difference between what we say we believe and what we actually do with our time, our bodies, our money? Pastor Tonetta draws on an unexpected pairing — a 2,000-year-old story and the imaginative world-building of Afrofuturism — to explore why the people
Joy Is Not the Opposite of Justice (opens the original)
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We're taught that changing the world costs everything: burning out, giving until it hurts, treating joy as a distraction from the work that actually matters. But what if that's backwards? Drawing on two one-paragraph parables from the Gospels, Octavia Butler's Earthseed novels, and — unexpectedly — Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this sermon unpacks how "sacrifice" gets weaponized to keep unjust systems running, then offers a different model: total investment in a world worth building, where pleasure,
When Being 'Wise' Means Leaving Someone Behind (opens the original)
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In the summer of 1969, two completely different visions of the future played out at the same time — one aimed at the moon, the other rooted in a Harlem park packed with people who'd rather celebrate together than watch a flag get planted 250,000 miles away. This episode uses that split screen to unpack an old, uncomfortable story about ten bridesmaids, a late groom, and a locked door. Some of the bridesmaids had extra oil. Some didn't. The ones with extra refused to share — and that's usually wh
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