By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Psalm 107 It felt like a punch to the gut to learn about another shooting in this country yesterday in El Paso. And then this morning while preparing for worship to learn about Dayton. And this follows less than a week after the tragedy in Gilroy at the Garlic Festival, which…
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Amos 8:1-12 We do what’s possible and God does what’s impossible. That is the actual title of my sermon, it was just too long for the bulletin. One of my favorite places these days is the Faith in Action office located at the corner of Folsom and Cesar Chavez. I walk…
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…
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Pentecost Sunday, Acts 2:1-21 There is so much going on in this text that it’s hard to know where to start this sermon: with the violent wind or flames of the Spirit or people speaking in other languages or the prophetic words from Joel, with their apocalyptic imagery… So I will…
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…
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Luke 4:21-30 I think it was sometime in 2012 I was invited to speak during an evening, student-led, chapel service at the conservative Christian college from which I graduated. This was about 7 years since I had graduated, so the current students didn’t know me, but some of my friends were…
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