By Sheri Hostetler Easter Sunday Matthew 28:1-10 We are created in the image of God. Inside each of us is a radiant wholeness that seeks to be expressed in our human form. Thus, we have the mystery of the Incarnation. That mystery is not just that God became flesh in Jesus but that God —…
By Joanna Shenk Sixth Sunday of Lent — “Soul Journey: Joyful is the Dark” Matthew 21:1-11 This is a familiar story for our congregation. We act it out every year. There’s lots that could be said about it. What words, images or phrases come to mind for you when you think about the Palm Sunday…
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…
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