The photos above show Nick Grillo and his husband, Kirk, and Sheri’s grandmother, Anna Troyer Hostetler Kurtz. Rev. 7:9-17 My grandma Anna was not a dainty, reserved, modest Mennonite woman. She was large-boned and brassy, opinionated and direct. It used to be said of her, “She wore the pants in the family.” My father was…
This reflection by Eli Ramer is from the third Sunday of our Back to the Basics Series: A Theology of Disability: God Calls Us Good. Back in the 1970s my mother was the co-director of a clinic for disabled people, down in Orange County. Some were disabled from birth, and two thirds were young men,…
This reflection by Janet Kroeker is from the second Sunday of our Back to the Basics Series: A Theology of Disability: God Calls Us Good. You can find audio and video recordings of both her reflection and that of our other speaker, Peter Kangas, here. I Corinthians 12:4-13 I imagine most of you thought I’d…
This is the first in our Back to the Basics Series: A Theology of Disability: God Calls Us Good. In this sermon, Joanna and Sheri preach on a theology of disability and how it can set all of us free. Genesis 32: 22-32 Joanna: As many of you know, I grew up in a family…
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Romans 12:1-8 (adapted) Sisters and brothers—siblings—I ask you through the mercy of God to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and whole, to God. This is an act of worship. Don’t conform yourselves to this social reality, but be transformed by the renewal of your minds, so that you can…
Above: Pelagius and Augustine, who argued over original sin in late 4th and early 5th centuries. This sermon is part of our annual “Throwback Sunday” series, where we look at older theological concepts that we may not find helpful (or even tolerable) anymore. We ask where they came from, what were their consequences, and whether…
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