“Jesus multiples the loaves and fishes” from JESUS MAFA, a iChristian community in Cameroon, Africa. Matthew 14:13-21 We worked with this passage at our lectio group on Tuesday, and something that Sarah Rezny (who has given me permission to share this) really struck me. She said: “This is one of our big stories,” which I…
Back to the Basics: Reintroducing the Church to Itself Matthew 10:1-5, 7-13 During this series, we are reweaving the story of our church after the unraveling of the pandemic and so many losses. This has been holy work, this mending of the fabric of our community. We have listened to sacred stories from our wise…
Luke 6:27-36 Does this passage ever get any easier? It was challenging to the people who first heard it, in Jesus’ day. It was challenging to the early Anabaptists, our spiritual ancestors, who nevertheless took it seriously and made “enemy love” one of the bedrock principles of their countercultural faith. It was challenging to my…
The link to the audio of the sermon is here. Luke 5:1-11 My husband, Jerome’s, brother was a commercial fisherman. About twice a month, he would depart from Boston and head out to Georges Bank, often traveling several days to get there. It was hard physical labor, and they’d work almost 24/7, with very little…
After Sarah Augustine’s powerful sermon at our Indigenous Peoples’ Day service, Kinari Webb responded with an invitation and challenge to our community to join her in donating any money we make off of extractive industries, like mining, toward a full-time salary for Sarah.
Mark 4:30-34 I’m in my backyard this morning, so I can introduce you to my blackberry bush. When Jerome and I moved to this house and began redoing the backyard, our next-door neighbor offered us canes (or shoots) from his blackberry bush. It was an old bush — probably close to 50 years old —…
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