White Supremacy: Not in My Name, Not in My God’s Name

White Supremacy: Not in My Name, Not in My God’s Name

Rev. Ashley Harness Matthew 14:22-33 Listen here: “They are coming for the church! Police all around. They won’t let us go outside. Y’all these KKK are marching with torches!” These are the words that our own beloved national Minister for Justice and...
Resistance Rooted in Love

Resistance Rooted in Love

Matthew 5: 38-48 Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel Root us in love, Holy One. Root us in love. Root us in love. Amen. In A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engele’s theological masterpiece masquerading as a children’s book, she writes of a scene in which the protagonist, Meg, has...
The Resistance Will Be Salty

The Resistance Will Be Salty

Rev. Ashley Harness Scripture: Matthew 5:13-20 Good morning beloveds. I don’t know about you, but these last two weeks or so since the inauguration have been pretty devastating and exhausting for me. We knew it would be bad. Many of us knew our own humanity or the...
Blessed are the protesters

Blessed are the protesters

Rev. Ashley Harness [On the Sunday after Inauguration, 2017] Scripture: Matthew 4:12-23 As I imagine this scripture, I try to put myself in the scenes of this ancient story. John the Bapist – the radical dissident against the Roman Empire who was both Jesus’ spiritual...