This sermon was given by James Brenneman on July 9, 2023. Jeremiah 34:8-14 (NRSVUE) 8 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them, 9that all should set free their Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that…
This post contains a diary selection read by our worship leader, Russ Schmidt, plus two reflections on Act 15:1-2, 4-14, 19-20 by Eli Ramer and Eli Reimer. Russ Schmidt’s diary entry The other day I accidentally found my first journal that I started when I was in Mennonite Voluntary Service in Cincinnati. I had just come…
Matthew 28:16-20, Matthew 9:35-10:4 I don’t like this text (Matthew 28:16-20), and I almost didn’t preach on it because I dislike it so much. Called “the Great Commission,” it’s one of the three main Biblical “texts of terror” used to justify colonization, not to mention really bad missionary theology. It appears to be — or…
This is the first in an Eastertide mini-series called “Rewilding Jesus” that unearths fun and feral images/ideas about Jesus, the Jewish prophet deeply rooted in his place and his community and undomesticated by Empire. Almost a year ago, I was in Milan to officiate the wedding of one of our former MVSers, Alyssa Schrag, and…
The sermon by Sheri Hostetler is interspersed wth Helen Stoltzfus’ “An Easter Poem.” A video an audio recording of the sermon can be found in this folder. Matthew 28:1-10 There are worlds within this story. We have tried for so long to put this story into a little box. It contains multitudes. We have said…
This is the fourth sermon in our Lenten series, “Fully Alive: Living as Warrior, Monk and Mystic.” It is followed by a reflection by Kelli Pearson, a member of our congregation, on identifying with the mystic archetype. John 17:20-26 Have you ever had the experience of being enlarged? In that moment, you felt yourself a…
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