Sermon by Jim Brenneman Deuteronomy 30: 11-16, 19a I. On this fourth Sunday of the New Year as we continue to consider choices we made in the past, some great, some not-so-great, we have opportunity to consider making different choices in the year to come. Some of our choices this year will be quite consequential…
Mark 1:14-20 One of the people who helped me reclaim Christianity when I was in my early 30s was Marcus Borg, a New Testament and Jesus scholar, who happened to be a close friend of my mentor Marianne Niesen. He actually achieved a measure of mainstream fame (for a New Testament scholar) for a series…
Matthew 2:1-12 An audio of the sermon can be found here. (Music and a children’s story come before the sermon.) Happy new year! Or is it — not happy, but new? I think many of you are familiar with the fact that different cultures and religions keep time differently. For instance, if we’re following the…
This is the first sermon in our Advent series called “Finding Freedom in Our Broken and Beautiful World.” We are basing this series on the work of Shannon Dycus, a Mennonite pastor and writer who wrote a lovely Advent Devotional, “The Holy in the Night: Finding Freedom in a Season of Waiting.” Matthew 24:36-44 Earlier…
This sermon was given by Lisa Hubbell and Sheri Hostetler. Many of us aware of the myth of the first Thanksgiving and the harmful and false story it tells of Pilgrim-Indian relations. Lisa and Sheri reflect on our Peace Church myths around Quaker and Mennonite relationships with Indian people. In particular, we tell stories of…
Deut. 30: 11, 14, 15-19 When I was in my mid-20s, I began a graduate program in feminist liberation theology at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I was scared, kind of intimidated. I felt like I was in the big leagues now, and I wasn’t from the big league. The weekend before school…
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