Author: Sheri Hostetler

  • Article: Singing for Justice 2

    Subversive singers use hymns as protest mennoworld.org/2018/01/22/news/subversive-singers-use-hymns-as-protest/ After weeks of planning and selecting their targets, members of First Mennonite Church of San Francisco entered the bank and handed staff a note with their demands. What happened wasn’t a heist but a hymn sing. Wearing signs critical of laws facilitating skyrocketing rents and corporations not paying…

  • Sermon: God/Mother

    By Sheri Hostetler I have referenced Elizabeth Johnson’s book She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse throughout this sermon. This is the third in an Advent series called “Wings, Wisdom and Womb: Dwelling in our Feminine Divine.” When Patrick was young, he loved the book, Mama, Do You Love Me? And no…

  • Sermon: Christ/Sophia

    By Sheri Hostetler Proverbs 8 (excerpts), Wisdom of Solomon 7:29-30 I have referenced Elizabeth Johnson’s book She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse throughout this sermon. This is the second in an Advent series called “Wings, Wisdom and Womb: Dwelling in our Feminine Divine.” A few years after I graduated from seminary…

  • Sermon: Spirit/Shekinah

    By Sheri Hostetler This is the first sermon in an Advent series on “Wings, Wisdom and Womb: Dwelling in our Feminine Divine.”  I am very much indebted to Elizabeth Johnson’s book She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse throughout this sermon. I also consulted Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb’s book She Who Dwells Within: Feminist Vision…

  • Sermon: The Day of the Lord

      Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18, Psalm 90:1-11, Thessalonians 5:1-11 Imagine the scene, if you will: It’s a Tuesday morning, and I’m sitting in my upstairs office with my nice hot cup of tumeric ginger tea beside me. My purring cat is asleep on my lap, and I’m snuggly and warm in my fake-sheepskin-lined slippers on this…

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