by admin | Mar 2, 2017 | Sermons
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...
by admin | Feb 19, 2017 | Sermons
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...
by admin | Feb 12, 2017 | Sermons
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...
by admin | Feb 5, 2017 | Sermons
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...
by admin | Jan 22, 2017 | Sermons
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...
by admin | Jan 8, 2017 | Sermons
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...
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