by Melissa Kelly | May 28, 2023 | Megan Ramer, Pentecost, Sermons, Year W
Getting in Trouble The Holy Spirit disrupts our plans, and she beautifully disrupted the sermon plan this morning! When honored guests from the Palouse tribe spoke so powerfully to us during our time of welcome and gathering, Pastor Megan knew the sermon had to shift....
by Melissa Kelly | May 21, 2023 | Easter, Megan Ramer, Sermons, Year W
Learn to Know to Love to Honor/Protect Place-based watershed discipleship and the spiritual practice of reverence deepen our experience of kinship with all creation. Pastor Megan shares stories of learning to know mountains, learning to know neighbors and...
by Melissa Kelly | May 14, 2023 | Amy Epp, Easter, Sermons, Year W
The Blessings and Curses of God our Mother Many of us are becoming comfortable with Mothering imagery for God – so long as that imagery is tender and comforting and caring. But what about a Mother who curses, judges and chastises. The feminine of God is as...
by Melissa Kelly | May 7, 2023 | Dustin Wilsor, Easter, Sermons, Year W
Love Is All Around The message of Resurrection, remembered in this Easter season, is a message of apocalyptic proportions. The Good News of the community of Love springs to life and begins to spread as Dustin begins to say goodbye. Audio Preacher Dustin Wilsor b...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 30, 2023 | Easter, Guest Speaker, Sermons, Year W
Earth and Breath Sarah Augustine, our Just Peace Climate Justice speaker, discusses the uses and failures of Capitalism and calls us to engage in an Indigenous cosmology that prioritizes Community Wellbeing over individuals and profit. She deftly contrasts a worldview...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 9, 2023 | Easter, Megan Ramer, Sermons, Year W
Mary the Tower in the Garden Pastor Megan inhabits the story found in John’s gospel, of Mary Magdalene (Mary, THE Magdala; Mary the Tower) coming to the garden to find an empty tomb. Enter the story with her, listen for two bits of good news, and wonder where...
