By Addie Liechty (cross-posted from https://addieswriting.wordpress.com/) Fifth Sunday of Lent — “Soul Journey: Joyful is the Dark” Ezekiel 37 The language of the soul is not one of words. It is one that speaks in symbols. In Christianity our main symbol is the cross. Personally, I have never felt very connected to this symbol. I have…
By Sheri Hostetler Fourth Sunday of Lent — “Soul Journey: Joyful is the Dark” Ephesians 4:7-16 In the first sermon of our Lenten series, I told you the story of when I was 32, working at a soul-sucking job in a corporate publishing house but unable to imagine or make happen a different future for…
By Joanna Shenk Third Sunday of Lent — “Soul Journey: Joyful is the Dark” John 4:1-42 The passage that we just heard is the longest recorded conversation we have between Jesus and another person in scripture. And it’s pretty interesting, right? Although it was culturally taboo for the two of them to be talking, the…
By Sheri Hostetler Second Sunday of Lent — “Soul Journey: Joyful is the Dark” Matthew 16:24-26 In 1939, on the eve of World War II, Carl Jung — one of the founders of Western psychiatry — was giving a talk in London in which he recounted a conversation he had had years before with the…
By Sheri Hostetler First Sunday of Lent — “Soul Journey: Joyful is the Dark” Matthew 4:1-11 I was 32 and deeply unhappy. I was working at a soul-sucking job as a medical writer and editor at a publishing house in San Francisco. It wasn’t what I wanted to do with my life, but I had…
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