On the last Sunday of October, many Mennonite churches in the United States observe Mennonite Heritage Sunday, a day set aside to remember the gifts that our spiritual ancestors have bequeathed to us. Our Anabaptist ancestors participated in one of the biggest religious, social and economic upheavals in European history. The 1500s were a time…
Members of First Mennonite Church of San Francisco joined thousands who marched in the Global Climate Strike and March in San Francisco on Friday, September 20, 2019. It was a great day of Global Solidarity as marchers and protesters joined an estimated 4 million protesters or more, worldwide, to demand solutions to the Worldwide Climate…
This is the third sermon in a series called “The Story of the Bible: A Hot Mess and a Healing Journey.” Genesis 11:27-12:9 Before we continue telling the story of the Bible, I want to say about how I think of story. Stories do not have to be literally true to be profoundly true. Stories…
This is the second sermon in a series called “The Story of the Bible: A Hot Mess and a Healing Journey.” Genesis 2:8-9, 15-17; 3:1-24 We are going to do a Bible Study much like I remember preachers doing when I was growing up. Like those “olden times,” this will be easier if you have…
This is the first sermon in a series called “The Story of the Bible: A Hot Mess and a Healing Journey.” Genesis 1-2:4 Imagine you are an ancient Babylonian. You’re going about your daily business of whatever it is that ancient Babylonians did — harvesting crops, carving stones for the ziggurats. Imagine the kind of…
Luke 13:10-17 Before we even begin to talk about our story for today, I want to provide some context because there are anti-Semitic land mines in this text. I asked Andrew Ramer to comment, and here are his eloquent words: The first thing to bear in mind when hearing these verses is that all of…
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