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…
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Psalm 107 It felt like a punch to the gut to learn about another shooting in this country yesterday in El Paso. And then this morning while preparing for worship to learn about Dayton. And this follows less than a week after the tragedy in Gilroy at the Garlic Festival, which…
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Amos 8:1-12 We do what’s possible and God does what’s impossible. That is the actual title of my sermon, it was just too long for the bulletin. One of my favorite places these days is the Faith in Action office located at the corner of Folsom and Cesar Chavez. I walk…
Reflections by Sharon Heath, Andrew Ramer and Bart Shulman A Story Of Liberation by Sharon Heath Every year at Passover, Jews remember and re-tell the story of their slavery in Egypt and how God rescued them from bondage and brought them into freedom. The ritual retelling of the Passover Story is called a Seder. What…
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…
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