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…
John 3:1-16 This is our second annual “Throwback Sunday,” where we look at a theological concept that many of us might have grown up with and where we also engage in gastronomic rituals that many of us may have grown up with. This year, we’re having a jello salad extravaganza! And I’ll be talking about…
Luke 8:26-39 The other day, I walked the dog in my neighborhood on a morning that was just right. It wasn’t too hot and it wasn’t too cold. It was just right. The sun was warm on my skin, the birds were singing, flowers were blooming. And then, I saw him: a thin man in…
By Karen Kreider Yoder FMCSF’s Green Team gave this “Earth Moment” on June 2, 2019. If we cannot acknowledge the problem and mourn, we cannot change our actions and heal the Earth. When I was a young girl in the 1960s, humans began producing plastic. Since then, our plastic use has grown steadily. From 2000…
Acts 16:16-34 I’m reading a book in which the author, Cheryl Strayed, talks about working with poor, white middle school girls who were deemed not just “high risk” but “highest risk” by the school they attended. These girls had had the roughest of lives before they were even technically teenagers. Poverty, incarceration, missing or drugged-out…
By Jim Musselman FMCSF’s “Green Team” gave this “Earth Moment” on Sunday, May 19. Greta Thunberg is a 16-year-old high school student who lives in Sweden. She is a climate activist who has organized an international school strike to fight climate change. Greta gave a speech about climate in London on April 23rd. Here are…
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