Youth Empowerment Sunday

Youth Empowerment Sunday

Yardena Meyerhoff: Empowerment is not always a feeling that overwhelms you and fills you up.  It can come when you’re least expecting it and it’s not always obvious or apparent right away. But….sometimes it is. This past January I had the privilege of going to...
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...
Be God’s Field

Be God’s Field

Rev. Ashley Harness Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3: 1-9 Brigitte grew up in East Germany in a family and a country living with the fresh scars of World War II. Her family was Christian, the religion that had been used to support the extermination of about 6 million Jewish...
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...
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...