Alix Pridgen

In this episode, Rev. Dr. Alix D. Pridgen reflects on John 4:5–42, the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well. In a world filled with tension, fear, and lines that divide people from one another, this ancient encounter speaks with surprising clarity to our own moment. Lent 3A 2026Jesus deliberately crosses a boundary his culture had learned to avoid, entering Samaria and sitting beside a well where he begins a conversation with a woman who would normally have been ignored or rejected. What follows becomes the longest theological conversation Jesus has with anyone in the Gospels. Lent 3A 2026As the conversation unfolds, Jesus speaks of “living water”—a life that rises like a spring, breaking through hardened ground and flowing beyond the walls people build between themselves. The encounter transforms the woman who came simply to draw water into the first evangelist in John’s Gospel, inviting her entire village to “come and see.” Lent 3A 2026This sermon reflects on how the living water of Christ con