by Rev. Ashley Harness | Oct 23, 2019 | Sermons
Jeremiah 31: 31-34 Listen here: I was in a church that felt like it could have been around since in the Middle Ages some place in Europe. A gorgeous stained glass window picturing a woman warrior saint stood above me, sunlight streaming through. I sat on a prayer...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Oct 6, 2019 | Sermons
1 Corinthians 11:17-26, 33-34 Listen here: The other night, I found my almost two year old daughter playing with some of her animal toys. She is an explosion of words these days, so I could hear her chatting with them before I could see them. “Having food and drink!”...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Jun 30, 2019 | Sermons
Listen here: Scripture: Excerpts from Genesis 1 & 2 Perhaps unusual for a Millennial, I met my beloved wife like generations of queers before me have met their beloveds – at little gay bar. Ours was and is a classic Brooklyn, NY lesbian bar, like Cheers but...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Jun 16, 2019 | Sermons
Scripture: Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 This is the season of Pentecost, of honoring the presence of the Holy Spirit among us. Wisdom, as our scripture attests, is the Hebrew Bible iteration of the Holy Spirit. This is also our now annual season of Sabbath at Lyndale,...
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...
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