Sermons from Lyndale
Draw the Circle Wide
Feasting is about shared abundance. Communion is about sharing and equity. Salvation and liberation are intertwined and they are communal.
The Anti-Capitalist Community of God
For me, and for others with invisible disabilities, we have this “coming out” moment often; for others, with more visible disabilities, they don’t get to decide when and who they “come out” to. But I can speak for myself: coming out about my disability has been, and continues to be, more dangerous than coming out about my queer sexuality. In communion, and the crucifixion, and the resurrection, we take time to understand that God is disabled, both because of God’s atypical, incarnate body and in the way that the world treated God. After all, the world refused to provide justice and access for a body like God’s, and, in fact, executed God for it.
Sabbath: Rest, Time and Visions
Scripture: Psalm 46 My life flows on in endless song; above earth’s lamentation, I hear the real though far-off song that hails a new creation. Through all the tumult and the strife, I hear the music ringing; It sounds an echo in my soul- how can I keep from singing?...