Author: Joanna Lawrence Shenk

  • Pride Sunday 2019: Three Reflections

    Reflections by Sharon Heath, Andrew Ramer and Bart Shulman A Story Of Liberation by Sharon Heath Every year at Passover, Jews remember and re-tell the story of their slavery in Egypt and how God rescued them from bondage and brought them into freedom.  The ritual retelling of the Passover Story is called a Seder.  What…

  • Greening our Fellowship Time

    By Karen Kreider Yoder Dear Congregation, We are trying to eliminate single-use plastic in our lives, and to that end, a snack team recently prepared the fellowship hour snack as free from single-use plastic as possible.  It was quite a challenge, as most of our food is packaged and delivered to us from a distance in single-use…

  • Sermon: MLK Sunday

    By Chude Allen and Rachel Stoltzfus Chude Allen: On June 9, 1964 I stood in front of the pews of an Episcopal church in a small town in Pennsylvania. I was about to go to Mississippi to be a freedom school teacher as part of what is now called Freedom Summer. I asked the parishioners…

  • Sermon: Holy Spirit Subversion

    By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Luke 3:15-22 Today I want to pick up where we left off last week with these words at the end of Sheri’s sermon: “In our present time, when paranoid kings rule, and when the life of the planet is literally at stake, I think it is more important than ever that…

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