During the season of Advent, we are reading (about) one verse of the first chapter of John each Sunday. Read Emily’s latest sermon “Not right but true,” on her blog, Sit and Eat.
Read Emily’s latest sermon, “What. Just. Happened?” on her blog, Sit and Eat.
To speak of this woman as “living in sin” is not only anachronistic, but misses the full impact of this story, strips it of gospel and reduces it to a waggling finger. Her sins (the word “sin,” by the way, appears nowhere in the text) are beside the point, for all of us are sinners. Nothing makes her any different from any of the other people Jesus encounters along the road, at least not in that respect.
Read Emily’s latest sermon, “Manna and Magic,” on her blog, Sit and Eat.
Read Emily’s latest sermon, “Water We Can Drink,” on her blog, Sit and Eat.
The journey is about creating an abiding relationship between God and God’s people. As counter intuitive as it might sound to our modern ears, it is a story of a people who escape involuntary bondage at the hands of the Egyptians, only to be bound again: this time to the God who has redeemed them, this time, by their choice.
This creation story has us living in this incredible tension. Instead of the waters of chaos being vanquished or conquered, God merely creates a place for us to live in the midst of the waters. We continue to live lives that are set in deep relationship with the waters of chaos. We live between the sky and the water, on this island of dry land.
Read Emily’s latest sermon, “The Source of the River” on her blog, Sit and Eat. The sermon is part of a series we’re doing on water and baptism in September and October.
Greg Brown is a congregant at St. Lydia’s, and a Master of Divinity candidate at General Theological Seminary in New York City. He is in the process of ordination in the Episcopal Church. Greg shared this sermon on Psalm 137 with us on Sunday, August 14. I have to start this with a confession: I […]
Crystal Hall is a congregant at St. Lydia’s, and a Master of Divinity candidate at Union Theological Seminary with a concentration in biblical studies. She is also a candidate for ordination in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), and is a Fellow with the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary. At the Poverty Initiative, […]