by Melissa Kelly | Sep 28, 2025 | Guest Speaker, Sermons
Visions and Divine Images Join Janet Berg as she reflects on this week’s visionary scripture from Ezekiel and on Ann Hostetler’s poem responding to it. Janet examines how Divine Images live in our questions and exist in the space between two people. ...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 21, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Let a Stone be a Stone? In which an Ebenezer appears in this sermon’s starring role. An Ebenezer is a stone erected in remembrance of a person or an experience or a place where something special happened. In 1 Samuel, the Hebrew people set up an Ebenezer to...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 14, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Shiprah. Puah. Praise! When fearful, powerful rulers order death, may we all reach for the tools handed to us from our courageous, life-bringing foremothers in the faith: Shiphrah and Puah. “Learn them: Shif-rah. Pu-ah. Praise! Let them again be household names!”...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 7, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
You Are Like Trees Planted by Streams of Water We are gathered back in for singing and praying, formation and feasting. We kick off our artful fall worship with a Psalm; a very good place to start. And we receive from Psalmist, artist, poet, and preacher a blessing...
by Melissa Kelly | Nov 19, 2023 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 2, Sermons
Poetry The prophet Isaiah writes poetry: to express deep love between God and God’s beloveds, to convey heartache, to cleverly and poignantly pierce through word play, to evoke hope and catalyze action, to faithfully proclaim the truest nature of God. If poetry is...
