This morning, we are going to be thinking about reparations: what they are, the history of conversations around reparations, and ways that the biblical story, and theology that has been created since, may support reparations. Clearly, I will be making an argument for them; however, this does not mean that...
King David’s third son, Absalom, was not the type of Old Testament character you would go to for informing your sexual ethics, your style of leadership, or what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. Absalom was known for his love of pomp and royal processions. He was apparently...
SpongeBob and our Imagination To open this sermon, I am going to use a millennial illustration that hopefully gets explained well enough for everyone here. It requires using a bit of imagination. What if sea creatures acted like humans? In the 2002 cartoon Spongebob Squarepants, the sea sponge named Spongebob...
Paul And Corinth The city of Corinth was in a time of peace. Since Emperor Augustus returned to the roman senate to civil Rule In 27 BCE, the Roman Generals were not at war against each other. This time of peace benefited cities like Corinth that were along key sea...
Origins of Rap In the summer 1977, New York City experienced economic stagnation and soaring unemployment. It was a summer known for its heat, but New York also experienced a black out. Successive lightning strikes in the area overburdened the power grid and sent the city into the pitch black....
So far in this series, we have been exploring creativity and the divine. We have opened this series by looking at the trinity. Two weeks ago we explored the creativity of the Creator – or Father- or the head of the trinity, and how that creator is still at work...
We start at the Beginning Today we start at the beginning. Yes its the first Sunday of our Summer series on Creativity. But I am talking about the very beginning. To explore creativity, we need to explore it from its origins. Creativity starts at the dawn of… creation. We live...
Dearly Beloved, We are gathered here today. The stereotypical words at the beginning of a wedding. “We” are gathered – the object of something or someone’s gathering. Gathered like the strawberries at Suters, or like the people in the long lines waiting to get them. Gathered Like flowers cut from...
If I fall asleep in the sermon today, it is because of how jealous Chaska and I were of everyone who got those beautiful views of the northern light on Friday, so we sat outside till midnight last night trying to pray the findlay light pollution into northern lights because...
Beauty of Love All you need is love. Love Love Love. Everyone is singing about it. We all desperately need it. In the 1950 John Bowby started writing about “Attachment Theory.” This Evolutionary theory suggests that in order for humans and other animals to survive, they need to create secure...
