Orchard Conversations
The Orchard Community is a 100-year old spiritual community helping people become who they are created to be. We’re less interested in dogma and more interested in living out our values: Goodness & Beauty, Wholeness, Renewal, Interdependence, Hospitality, Peacemaking, Humility & Curiosity. From digital content (like this podcast), to local events and Table Gatherings we’re doing our best to evolve into a spiritual community for the next 100 years.
Episodes

20 hours ago
Trust and Abundance :: Epiphany 2025
20 hours ago
20 hours ago
We continue our Epiphany series with Lead Pastor Scott Hodge taking a look at the themes of faith and abundance found in today's reading from the gospel of Luke, in which Jesus tells Simon Peter to drop his fishing nets again where he has already failed to catch anything. Scott asks the poinant question: Do we have eyes to see the surprising ways in which God moves in the midst of situations whose outcome we think we already know?
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Monday Feb 03, 2025
Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind :: Epiphany 2025
Monday Feb 03, 2025
Monday Feb 03, 2025
This week, we delve into one of the most renowned passages in the Bible—Paul’s profound discourse on love in 1 Corinthians 13, a scripture often recited at weddings. In our current cultural and political climate, what insights can we draw from this timeless teaching to guide our words and actions today?
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QUESTIONS FOR CONVERSATION AND CONTEMPLATION:
Are We Open to Hard Truths?
Where in my life have I resisted a hard truth because it made me uncomfortable?
Where Is Your Prophetic Voice Needed?
Where in my life am I being called to speak truth in love?
Are We Willing to Face Resistance?
What holds me back from speaking the truth in love? Fear? Complacency? A need to be liked?
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Monday Jan 27, 2025
We Are The Body :: Epiphany 2025
Monday Jan 27, 2025
Monday Jan 27, 2025
The season of Epiphany continues with Lead Pastor Scott Hodge reminding us of the beauty, essentiality, and connectedness of a body made of many different parts.
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QUESTIONS FOR CONTEMPLATION AND CONVERSATION:
When you look at your daily life—your workplace, family, or community—what is one practical way you can bring “good news” to someone in need this week?
How can we as followers of Jesus actively engage in peacemaking and justice in ways that reflect his kingdom values? What does it look like for you to live out this mission in the spaces you occupy every day—your workplace, family, or neighborhood?
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Monday Jan 20, 2025
Water into Wine :: Epiphany 2025
Monday Jan 20, 2025
Monday Jan 20, 2025
As we continue through the season of Epiphany this year, we unexpectedly encounter Jesus’ very first miracle of turning water into wine at a wedding and Benjamin Jay Thomas shares some unexpected truths that can transform our lives.
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QUESTIONS FOR CONTEMPLATION AND CONVERSATION:
Where has “the wine run out” in your life?
What old ways do you need to let go of?
How can you embrace abundance over scarcity?
When have you shifted from hesitation to action?
What signs are pointing you toward transformation?
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Monday Jan 13, 2025
You Are Beloved :: Epiphany 2025
Monday Jan 13, 2025
Monday Jan 13, 2025
We continue the season of Epiphany by looking at the story of John the Baptist and Jesus' baptism and we ponder how we can face the reality of ourselves and become who God has created us to be.
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Monday Jan 06, 2025
New Year, New Me? :: God's Grace In A New Year
Monday Jan 06, 2025
Monday Jan 06, 2025
What would our lives look like if we fully believed God's grace has already saved us and we don't need to change anything about ourselves to earn God's love? This week, Lead Pastor Scott Hodge guides us into the new year by asking us each to consider what God is inviting us to become.
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Monday Dec 23, 2024
ADVENT 2024 :: Week 4
Monday Dec 23, 2024
Monday Dec 23, 2024
Join us this week as Benjamin Jay Thomas shares a teaching, music and poetry for the fourth week of Advent and the Winter Solstice.
Advent is a time of waiting, anticipation, and preparation—setting the stage for a deeper connection with the sacred and the present moment. As we journey together through this season, we’ll reflect on themes of hope, renewal, and what it means to wait with intention. Join us as we step into Advent with open hearts, ready to embrace the beauty of this time.
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Monday Dec 16, 2024
ADVENT 2024 :: Week 3
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Join us this week as we continue our journey of Advent, preparing our lives and hearts for the Christ light entering into the world, with Scott Hodge sharing a teaching on the powerful hope and transformation in Luke 3:7-18.
Advent is a time of waiting, anticipation, and preparation—setting the stage for a deeper connection with the sacred and the present moment. As we journey together through this season, we’ll reflect on themes of hope, renewal, and what it means to wait with intention. Join us as we step into Advent with open hearts, ready to embrace the beauty of this time.
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Along with our weekly podcast, we publish a weekly digital liturgy video that includes meditations, songs and prayers in addition to the video version of our conversation.
Browse the catalog here.

ORCHARD TABLES
Orchard Tables are small spiritual gatherings that happen in homes and other cozy spaces.
The gatherings involve some singing, meditation, prayer and teaching (led in part via video), then a delicious brunch and some meaningful conversation. In total they last about 2 hours.
Orchard Tables are safe spaces – fully inclusive and welcome to all walks of life. It’s all pretty low key.
For more info visit theorchardcommunity.com/tables