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 | Oct 23, 2022 | Amy Epp, Fall 2022, Sermons
Bible’s Best Boy As much as we learned otherwise in Sunday school, Boaz is not the romantic lead of a storybook romance. He is, however, one of the best examples we have in the Bible of how to use privilege, power and wealth in a way that offers a place to those who...
by Megan Ramer | Mar 1, 2020 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Jesus made me do it Not going to lie: this is a TOUGH message about the laughable impossibility of wealth in God’s kindom and the dispiriting reality of growing homelessness on the West Coast and specifically on our front doorstep. But it’s also about...