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Momologian
by Alicia Vélez Stewart
Who is Momologian? Rev. Alicia Vélez Stewart (she/her/ella) is a sassy mom of twins + 2, at times irreverent but always in awe of the Divine, Latina pastora, theologian, progressive, and unashamedly liberal child of God. Fully fueled by caffeine & the Holy Spirit 🕊, if you’re looking for a slightly heretical and definitely scriptural take on Christianity then you’re in the right place.
Episodes
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(Holy) Ghost Stories: The One Who Would Not Let Go
Welcome to October in New England, which means it is officially time for our annual embrace of things a little mysterious, unexpected, and spooky. This month, our worship series is called (Holy) Ghost Stories. Alone beside a river in the darkness, Jacob encounters a mysterious stranger who…
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(Holy) Ghost Stories: The Strangers at the Table
Welcome to October in New England, which means it is officially time for our annual embrace of things a little mysterious, unexpected, and spooky. This month, our worship series is called (Holy) Ghost Stories. Human beings have always told stories. Around fires. Around tables. Across generations....
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Coming Home: This is how we (be)come home
Today’s reading comes from Paul’s letter to the Philippians (Philippians 2:1-13 The Message), where he is speaking to a community learning how to live together in a way that reflects Christ. Paul calls them beyond self-interest and toward humility, mutual care, and a way of life shaped by Jesus,...
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Homecoming
Today’s scripture picks up immediately after the teaching from Matthew we heard last Sunday, when Jesus instructed his followers to name harm honestly, seek accountability, and work toward repair. Peter responds with a very human question: How many times do I have to forgive? Jesus answers with a...
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Coming Home: What We Carry With Us
Today we begin our new series, Coming Home: Remembering Who We Are. Becoming Who God Calls Us to Be. Through Exodus 12 and Matthew 18, we’ll explore what communities carry with them when God leads them into something new: stories of liberation, practices of truth and reconciliation, and the grace...
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Writing the Next Verse: The Truest Story
Every one of us carries stories—stories we've inherited, stories others have told about us, and stories we've come to believe about ourselves. Some bring life. Others quietly convince us that we are defined by our wounds, our failures, or the hardest chapter of our lives. In this week's Gospel,...
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Seeds and Trees
This week's message explores what it means to practice hope, not as wishful thinking, but as faithful action. We may never see the full harvest of the seeds we plant, yet every act of love, compassion, justice, and welcome becomes part of the story God is still writing. The church is not called…
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Blessing the life we did not choose: Practicing Resurrection in Public
Today we'll hear the story of Jacob, whose life was shaped by betrayal, loss, and circumstances he never would have chosen. Together we'll discover how God doesn't cause our suffering, but can bring healing, hope, and new possibilities from even our deepest disappointments. Wherever you find...
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Freedom. What is it for?
This week we begin the July chapter of our summer worship series, We Are Still Alive and Singing a New Song, with a message from Galatians 5:1, 13–25 called "Freedom Songs." As we reflect on Independence Day, we'll explore one of the most important questions of the Christian faith: What is…
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Juneteenth: Freedom is just the Beginning
Drawing connections between Joshua's challenge and the story of Juneteenth, we explore how freedom is not the end of the journey, but the beginning of a new calling. Just as those who received the long-awaited news of emancipation had to decide what freedom would mean for their lives, we are...
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Now Sing It Like You Mean It
This week, we launch our summer worship series, We Are Still Alive and Singing a New Song, with a message from Romans 12:9–16b called "Sing Like You Mean It." After the wind, fire, and wonder of Pentecost comes a very practical question: Now what? What do we do after we've caught a glimpse of…
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We Are Alive...Singing a New Song
This week, on Pentecost Sunday, we conclude our Eastertide series, “What Does It Mean to Be Resurrection People?” with a bold and joyful proclamation: “WE ARE ALIVE!” Drawing from Acts 2:1–21, we explore how Pentecost is not simply the “birthday of the Church,” but the moment Resurrection bursts...
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…OK. Ready for what?
Continuing our Eastertide series, “What Does It Mean to Be Resurrection People?” with John 17:1–11. Picking up from last week’s message, “You Are Ready,” we ask the next natural question: “Ready for what?” This is a deeply tender moment from John’s Gospel, where Jesus publicly prays for his...
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You are Ready
As Jesus prepares his disciples for what lies ahead, he offers not exclusion, but trust. In John 14:15–27, we are reminded that the work of love, healing, and belonging does not end with him, but it continues through us. This week, we’ll explore what it means to live as Resurrection people…
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Show Us the Way
This week we explore John 14:1–14 through the voices of Thomas and Philip: the disciples bold enough to ask the questions we still carry today. “How do we know the way?” Rather than offering rigid answers or drawing lines of exclusion, Jesus responds with an invitation: “I am the way, the truth,...
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On the Road, Together
“We had hoped…” In this powerful post-resurrection story, two disciples walk away from everything they thought they understood all while grieving, confused, and unsure what comes next. And yet, without their knowing, Jesus walks beside them. This week’s message reminds us that faith isn’t about...
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Now what? Believing in the In-Between
In the days after Easter, when the alleluias begin to fade and the world still feels uncertain, we might find ourselves asking: Now what? In John 20:19–31, we encounter Thomas—not as a symbol of doubt to avoid, but as a companion in faith. His questions echo our own as we try to make sense of...
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Easter: Bearing Witness to Resurrection Life
The tomb is empty. Love wins. Now what? This Easter sermon is a bold, joy-filled proclamation that resurrection is not just something we believe—it’s something we live. In a world marked by grief and brokenness, we are called to rise, to act, and to bear witness to the transforming power of love....
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Bearing Witness to Love in Public: Palm Sunday, Lent 6
Palm Sunday isn’t just a celebration — it’s a moment of courage. As Jesus enters Jerusalem, the crowds cry out “Hosanna,” a word that means both praise and a plea: Save us. But this isn’t a quiet or safe moment. It’s a public, risky act of hope in the shadow of empire. In this final message of…
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Bearing Witness to Hope: Lent 5
This week in our Lenten series Bearing Witness, we explore what it means to bear witness to hope in a world surrounded by death-dealing systems, despair, and exhaustion. In today’s reading of the Gospel (John 11:1-45), John’s story of Lazarus unfolds slowly in the shadow of grief. Mary and Martha...
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Bearing Witness to Clarity: Lent 4
This week in our Lenten series Bearing Witness, we encounter the story of Jesus and the man born with limited vision (John 9:1–41). This powerful passage challenges harmful assumptions about suffering and invites us into deeper awareness of God’s work in our lives and world. As pressure mounts to...
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Bearing Witness to Truth (in Love): Lent 3
John 4:5–42 (The Voice) invites us to lean into our call to be a people who bear witness to truth. In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus has an incredible encounter with a Samaritan woman, known in the Orthodox tradition as Photini. At the well, truth is spoken without shame and received with grace.…
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Bearing Witness to Trust: Lent 2
In the second week of our Lenten series Bearing Witness: Seeing, Trusting, and Testifying to God at Work, we encounter Nicodemus’ nighttime conversation with Jesus (John 3:1–17). Together we explore what it means to trust God even when our understanding is still unfolding. This week invites us to...
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Bearing Witness to Struggle: Lent 1
In this first week of Lent, we bear witness to struggle through Jesus’ time in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1–11). Rather than a battle with an external enemy, we explore this moment as a profound encounter between Jesus’ humanity and divinity — a struggle that reflects our own wrestling with…
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Transfiguration Sunday: What Goes Up…
…must come down. Today we stand on the mountain (Matthew 17:1–9) with Peter, James, and John. We will witness Christ radiant in light. We will hear the voice that calls Him Beloved. And we will watch the disciples wrestle with what to do next. Because the mountain is not the destination. The…
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A Wisdom that runs deep
The next two Sundays, we stand at a threshold to the Lenten season. Drawing on Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians, we explore God’s wisdom as something that runs deeper than surface-level answers, power, or certainty. Paul reminds us that the heart of the Christian story is not domination or fear, but...
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Into the Water Together
Matthew 3:1-11 (CEB) invites us to the riverbank, where Jesus steps into the same muddy water as everyone else. We talk about baptism as an act of belonging, not exclusion — a public declaration that God’s love comes first, before accomplishment, before certainty, before we get anything “right.”...
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Epiphany: What Are You Looking For?
What are you looking for? As a new year begins, this Epiphany sermon invites us to sit with that question alongside the Magi—outsiders, seekers, and learners who followed a star into the unknown. Drawing on Matthew 2:1–12, this reflection explores the social and political realities of Jesus’…
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Advent 2: Elizabeth’s story of peace
Today on The Momologian, we’re stepping into the Advent story through the eyes of someone who rarely gets the microphone — Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist. Her story is one of silence that startles, promises that unsettle, and a peace that arrives not because the world is calm, but...
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What child IS this?
This week we begin the Advent season with a question at the heart of our hope: “What child is this?” Not a sentimental Christmas card version of Jesus, but the Christ who enters a world that feels—then and now—like the book of Lamentations: weary, anxious, grieving, longing for something better.…
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Behold, I Am Making All Things New
On this Thanksgiving and Reign of Christ Sunday, we turn to Isaiah’s breathtaking vision of a world made new — a world where joy overflows, children thrive, elders flourish, and peace is not imagined but lived. In a time when many of us feel weary, scattered, or discouraged, this sermon invites…
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Remembrance and Resurrection
On this All Saints Sunday, Rev. Alicia Vélez Stewart invites us into the thin space between heaven and earth — where memory, grief, and hope intertwine. Drawing from 2 Corinthians 5:1–8, she reflects on Paul’s image of our earthly lives as “tents” — temporary, fragile, yet sacred places where God...
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Holy Ghost Stories: The House of the Dry Bones
In this week’s Holy Ghost Story, we find ourselves at the edge of town — staring up at a house everyone thought was abandoned. The windows are dark, the air is still, and the stories say it’s haunted. But what if it’s not haunted by something to fear… but by the Spirit of God, still waiting to...
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Holy Ghost Stories: The Spirit Who Spoke “Too Loud”
In this week’s Holy Ghost Story, we step into the crowded streets of Philippi, where a woman with a sacred gift dares to speak the truth too loudly. Her voice, filled with divine clarity, cuts through the noise — but her courage comes at a cost. Paul and Silas find themselves swept up in the...
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Holy Ghost Stories: The Man Among the Tombs
This week, we follow Jesus across the water to a place no one wanted to go — the land of the tombs. It’s a chilling story of a man haunted by voices, chained and forgotten by his community… until Jesus steps ashore. In this second installment of Holy Ghost Stories, we’ll explore what happens when...
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Holy Ghost Stories: The Stranger on the Road
It’s October — the season of cider donuts, campfires, and ghost stories. So what happens when we tell the Gospel like a story you’d hear around the fire? In this first episode of Holy Ghost Stories, we step onto the Road to Emmaus with two weary travelers, a mysterious stranger, and a table where...
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Grace in the Gray
This week on The Momologian, Rev. Alicia Velez Stewart takes on one of Jesus’ most puzzling parables — the story of the dishonest manager in Luke 16:1–13. Why would Jesus tell a story where a corrupt steward is praised for being “shrewd”? Who are we supposed to root for here? And what does it…
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All Are Worth the Search
In this episode, Rev. Alicia reflects on Luke 15:1–10 and Jesus’ parables of the lost sheep and lost coin. Too often these stories have been misused to make some feel less worthy of God’s love. But the truth is, God’s joy has no hierarchy — whether your faith has been a steady walk or a winding...
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Homecoming: The Risk is Worth it
Jesus’ words about counting the cost of discipleship aren’t exactly what you’d expect for a warm, welcoming Homecoming Sunday — but they’re exactly what we need to hear. In this episode, Rev. A explores what it means to move from being fans of Jesus to true disciples, willing to risk comfort,...
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The Practice of the Kin-dom
In a world shaken by tragedy, how do we hold on to hope and live as people of the kin-dom? In this week’s message from Luke 14:1, 7–14, Rev. Alicia Velez Stewart reflects on a dinner party with high stakes, the social games of Jesus’ time, and the radical reversal of God’s table. With honesty…
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Love Will Not—Can Not—Wait
Step into the shoes of the bent-over woman from Luke 13, hearing her story of unexpected healing and liberation at the hands of Jesus. Together, we explore how this act of compassion became a public act of resistance, revealing a love that refuses to wait when someone is suffering. Rooted in both...
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An Unexpected Message of Hope
On today’s episode of Momologian, we wrestle with one of Jesus’ hardest sayings: “I came to cast fire upon the earth.” Far from words of despair, this fire is a refining call to confront injustice, resist false peace, and stand with the marginalized.
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Do Not be Afraid, Little Flock
Jesus reminds us that true spiritual wealth is found not in possessions, but in generosity, watchfulness, and a life oriented toward justice and love. In today’s world of fear and distraction, we are invited to live awake and alert to God’s kingdom already among us.
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What Barns are You Building
This week’s message invites us to move from fear and self-protection toward deeper trust in God and connection with others. Hear Rev A speak to the parable of the rich fool, how it is a story about the illusion of self-sufficiency and calls us to live generously and courageously, building…
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Teach Us to Pray
Jesus’ response to the disciples’ simple yet profound request: “Lord, teach us to pray.” Through the Lord’s Prayer, we discover more than a set of words—we find a communal rhythm for intentional living.
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One thing is necessary
It’s been a quiet few weeks here on the podcast, and that’s because I’ve been in the midst of a big transition—moving to my new appointment as pastor of Brunswick United Methodist Church in Brunswick, Maine. Today, I’m excited to share my very first sermon in this new season of ministry. We’re...
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This I Believe
In this heartfelt message, Rev. A shares her last Sunday as pastor at Weston United Methodist Church in Weston, MA, and reflects on leading the congregation through seasons of healing, transformation, and radical welcome. Join Rev. Alicia as she closes one chapter and opens the next—with…
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Thriving in a Complicated World
Rev. Alicia reflects on Romans 5:1–5 through a feminist, progressive, Wesleyan lens—exploring how the Trinity models a sacred connection that can help us endure and thrive in the midst of chaos. This is not a theology of suffering as divine test, but a bold claim that grace meets us in hard…
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Blow, Spirit — WHOA!
“Blow, Spirit — WHOA!”—a bold, prophetic call to embrace the wild, disruptive movement of the Holy Spirit. Drawing on Acts 2 and the strangeness of the early Jesus movement, this sermon challenges the Church today—especially the United Methodist Church—to stop hiding in upper rooms and start…
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Everything Changes
This week we continue with the third message in a four-part sermon run inspired by Marcia McFee’s Reshaped worship series. This week’s message is rooted in John 12:24-25, as we explore Jesus’ surprising image of a grain of wheat falling into the earth and dying in order to multiply life.
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Who is Momologian? Rev. Alicia Vélez Stewart (she/her/ella) is a sassy mom of twins + 2, at times irreverent but always in awe of the Divine, Latina pastora, theologian, progressive, and unashamedly liberal child of God. Fully fueled by caffeine & the Holy Spirit 🕊, if you’re looking for a slightly heretical and definitely scriptural take on Christianity then you’re in the right place.
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