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...
Dreams, Visitations and Other Epiphanic Interruptions

Dreams, Visitations and Other Epiphanic Interruptions

Matthew 2:1-12 January 8, 2017 Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel   Bidden or unbidden, God comes. For this sacred presence, we return thanks. Amen. She had been like a second mother to me. When, after college, I got on a train alone and moved to Seattle when I’d never...
Christmas: Follow Love to All the Wrong Places

Christmas: Follow Love to All the Wrong Places

Rev. Ashley Harness Christmas Eve, 2016 Her name wasn’t Mary, but Zintkala Mahpiya Wi Blackowl – Sky Bird Woman. From the Sicangu and Ihanktonwan Lakota tribes, she came to Standing Rock from Oregon in August to stand with her people against the Dakota Access...
Advent: Defiant Hope

Advent: Defiant Hope

Rev. Ashley Harness Scripture: Matthew 24:36-44 ‘But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Child, but only the Parent. For as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Child of Humanity. For as in those days before the...

Call to Offering: Fred Kuhnen

By Fred Kuhnen A week ago I started thinking about what my theme might be for this time with you. I thought about the question I’ve heard from Ashley more than once “why do you show up here on Sunday mornings?” While I have a number of reasons I might list out, my...