by Melissa Kelly | Apr 20, 2025 | Easter, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Seeking the Living & Practicing Resurrection “Why do you seek the living among the dead?” sounds like a chastisement. Until we remember that the only reason that ANYone knows that Jesus’ tomb is empty is because a whole crew of faithful women showed up at the...
by Melissa Kelly | Mar 30, 2025 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Sermons
The Crevasse is Real This Lukan fable has a pretty clear message: Wealth creates an impassable crevasse between humans. Wealth is only one of the many things that can create impassable crevasses between people; so too can race and religion and immigration status, to...
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 | Nov 17, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Singing our Holy Holy Holies What does it mean to sing “Holy holy holy is God” NOT to God, but to one another? Might Isaiah’s magnificent and poetic imagery of the seraphim singing their praise of God’s holiness TO one another be received as an invitation to do the...
by Melissa Kelly | Nov 3, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Unlikely Dependencies = God’s Provision What happens when a raven and a prophet form a little community of care? How about a Hebrew man and Phoenician widow – across religious and political divides? According to our storyteller, the needs of all are met, and the...
