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…
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,…
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