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…
Rachel Miller’s Reflection When asked to reflect on this year so far, there was one main focus/idea that seemed to be consistent in my head: “Wellness.” Coming into a second year of MVS has allowed me to continue the growth that I’ve been building since last year while being open to new growth taking place. Taking…
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…
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