by Megan Ramer | Sep 13, 2020 | Sermons, zoom church
Creation: Relationship & Fracture We are back to the Narrative Lectionary, and we kick off this year’s journey through the biblical text with a Genesis creation account. In it, humans are created from the earth, for the plants, intrinsically connected to...
by Megan Ramer | Sep 6, 2020 | Sermons, zoom church
Common Life & Common Space We spend one final summer week with commentator Willie James Jennings, the Book of Acts, Paul imprisoned (yet again…), and the Holy Spirit calling Jesus-followers into common life and common space with one another. [sermon begins...
by Amy Epp | Aug 16, 2020 | Amy Epp, Sermons, zoom church
Citizen Discipleship “Disciples of Jesus should be desperate citizens. The desperate citizen will press their citizenship as far as possible for the sake of thwarting death and its agents.” Pastor Amy explores the work of theologian Willie James Jennings...
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...
