by Melissa Kelly | Jun 2, 2024 | Liz Colver, Sermons
Decentering human experience in light of creation as a whole Creation itself, the morning stars and divine beings and whatnot – they were celebrating the foundations of the world itself before humans were even a thing. God and nature itself celebrated and called...
by Melissa Kelly | May 26, 2024 | Liz Colver, Sermons
Making the World Cultures and traditions – including religions – all have multiple creation stories. Today we hear one from our scriptures told in Genesis, and our sermon shares another one – in the form of the children’s book “Big Momma Makes the...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 12, 2021 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
An Ingathering of the Supremely Good We start our new year with the Narrative Lectionary “In the [very] beginning…” (a very good place to start…). The first creation account, in Genesis chapter one, reveals a Creator God who creates and co-creates, makes and beckons...
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...
