by Melissa Kelly | Oct 6, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Symbols & Reputations The Hebrew people grow weary of their supposed leader leaving them behind, and – in Moses’ absence – they ask for a symbol to represent God? Replace God? Hold them together as a community in a very destabilized time? Unclear, but...
by Melissa Kelly | Aug 6, 2023 | Megan Ramer, Sermons, Summer 2023
Our WARRIOR PROTECTRIX is Angry Too! A Psalm of praise becomes a Psalm of lament as the City of Seattle cites and fines our congregation for the humans who have found refuge on our property after relentlessly being swept from public parks and lands. As our friend...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 25, 2022 | Amy Epp, Fall 2022, Sermons
Don’t Look Away: The Pain and Protest of Lamentations It feels bad to feel bad! So often feelings and embodiments of anger and despair are punished or policed – especially in women and people of color. Maybe that’s why we so often turn past the book...
by Megan Ramer | Oct 11, 2020 | Sermons, zoom church
When Love IS Anger God is angry at the Hebrew people over their casting of a golden calf for false worship, mere months after God has liberated them from slavery. God is angry. SO angry, in fact, that God seems ready to destroy them all… again. God ultimately...
by Amy Epp | May 31, 2020 | Amy Epp, Sermons, zoom church
Burn and Breathe – Zoom Church In the days of protest, riot and rage over police violence against black people and the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade and many others, we gather for Pentecost. We call on the Holy Spirit to come with...
