by Megan Ramer | Aug 9, 2020 | Sermons, zoom church
Listening & Learning: Shannon Dycus We continue our summer worship series in which we listen to and learn from Black preachers. Today: Shannon Dycus, former pastor of First Mennonite Church in Indianapolis IN, and current Dean of Students at Eastern Mennonite...
by Megan Ramer | Aug 2, 2020 | Sermons, zoom church
Listening & Learning: Austin Channing Brown We continue our summer worship series in which we listen to and learn from Black preachers. Today: Austin Channing Brown, author of best-selling book, I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness,...
by Megan Ramer | Jul 26, 2020 | Megan Ramer, Sermons, zoom church
Easy Yokes & Light Burdens?? Nothing about the yoke of intractable racism feels easy. Nothing about the burden of a runaway pandemic feels light. Is there any good news at all in these supposedly comforting words of Jesus? And what’s the deal with all those...
by Megan Ramer | Jul 19, 2020 | Sermons, zoom church
Listening & Learning: Glen Guyton We continue our summer worship series in which we listen to and learn from Black preachers. Today: Glen Guyton, the Executive Director of our denomination, Mennonite Church USA. He loves pie and is funny (though his wife may...
by Amy Epp | Jul 13, 2020 | Sermons
Listening and Learning: Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III We begin our summer worship series in which we listen and learn from Black preachers. We start with Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. With him we cry in lament for Ahmaud...
by Megan Ramer | Jul 5, 2020 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Jailer, Jailed, Judge, Jury: None are free until all are free In our annual Interdependence Day worship – on the Sunday nearest the 4th – we again expose the lie of supposed independence, and instead claim the joy of justly-ordered mutual dependence and...
