by Melissa Kelly | Jan 11, 2026 | Epiphany, Megan Ramer, Sermons
Nighttime musings; Daytime wayfinding Nicodemus seeks Jesus under cover of dark, and Jesus challenges Nicodemus to follow an Empire-defying Way in the light of day. When we step away from complicity with a violent and death-dealing Empire, when we emerge from the...
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 | Dec 22, 2024 | Advent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
And Yet More Love As we wait for God’s “Big L” Liberating Love to be fully realized, we are called to BE God’s love of ourselves, for one another, and for all creation. We enter the story of Mary, and then Mary with Elizabeth, to see how this love begets more love and...
by Melissa Kelly | Mar 24, 2024 | Charlene Epp, Easter, Lent, Sermons
Costly Extravagant Love Jesus lives an increasingly life of truth-telling to civic and religious authorities. All the while he enfolds the marginalized and oppressed into a just and merciful embrace of care and love, calling disciples to do the same. Up to his...
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...
