by Melissa Kelly | Feb 16, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Orthopraxy and a Faith That Sues the President Fetus John the Baptist knew exactly who Jesus was, according to Luke. Adult John the Baptist sends emissaries to ask Jesus who he is. Jesus does not answer John’s question, but rather instructs the question-askers to...
by Melissa Kelly | Feb 9, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
A Gut Impulse for Compassion Jesus sees a woman and is moved with compassion to respond. But what about all the other women, humans, creatures, who also needed his compassionate response??? And what about the root causes of her suffering – Shouldn’t he have...
by Melissa Kelly | Jan 26, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Saying Yes & No With Ancestors Three major commemorations converged last week: the birth of the Anabaptist movement, the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (and the broader movement of which he was part, including our Anabaptist ancestors, Rosemarie and Vincent...
by Melissa Kelly | Jan 12, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
A Treasonous, Heretical, Communal Baptism There’s lots going on in this story from Luke, and also in this sermon from Pastor Megan, and also in the story of our Anabaptist roots, and also in the congregational life of Seattle Mennonite Church. It’s all a bit of a...
by Melissa Kelly | Dec 22, 2024 | Advent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
And Yet More Love As we wait for God’s “Big L” Liberating Love to be fully realized, we are called to BE God’s love of ourselves, for one another, and for all creation. We enter the story of Mary, and then Mary with Elizabeth, to see how this love begets more love and...
by Melissa Kelly | Dec 1, 2024 | Advent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
From Lament to a Nevertheless Hope Advent is a home for our longing that is at once ancient and new every day. We join our longing for the full inbreaking of God’s justice, peace, and liberating love to the longing of our forebears in the faith. Like them, we continue...
