by Rev. Ashley Harness | Apr 17, 2022 | sermons
Scripture: John 20:1-18 I have dozens of voicemails from my mom who died last November saved on my cell phone. They go back almost a decade. In every one of them, she begins, “Hi sweetie pie…” In the early ones, her voice is so filled with life. She is often...
by Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel | Apr 4, 2021 | sermons
Scripture: John 20:1-18 The trauma had happened quickly. There wasn’t a lot of time between the shock of his arrest, the frantic attempts to get Pilate to release him and the horror of watching him die. And she had been there for all of it. She had borne witness and...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Apr 12, 2020 | sermons
Matthew 28: 1-10 I imagine Mary Magdalene and Mary, Jesus’ mother, had been holding the fear and joy that comes from loving somebody of such passion deeply for some time… but especially these last weeks. Their whole world had become more tense in these recently. There...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Apr 21, 2019 | sermons
Listen here: “Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person,” says Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. At the end of the 6th century, Pope Gregory the Great wrote a sermon that “would come...
by Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel | Apr 1, 2018 | sermons
Scripture: John 20:1-18 Listen here: O unfamiliar God, we seek you in the places you have already left, and fail to see you even when you stand before us. Grant us so to recognize your strangeness that we need not cling to our familiar grief, but may be freed to...
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