Sermons
Rotten Grapes
Queries:
What have humans created that is not serving the common good?
What needs to be laid down? What needs to be nurtured?
Where I am glimpsing new ways of ordering our lives together?
What makes it hard for people to let go? What support do they need?
How do we respect the individual while criticizing the institution?
What We Treasure
Queries:
What do you treasure? What has your heart?
What would reassure you, in the midst of your fears?
What good have you experienced by letting go of possessions?
What lasts?
What does it mean to be ready? Ready for what/whom?
Let There Be Greening! Continuing the Work of Earth Ministry/WA Interfaith Power and Light
Worship God in the Grandeur of Creation!
God’s majesty—in the pounding waves
God’s strength—in the wind
God’s creative work—in the volcano
God’s destructive work—in the tsunami
God’s love—in the flickering fire
god’s emptiness—in the desert
God’s constancy –in the seasons
Worship God—Give Thanks—Make peace
Conscientious Objectors and Deserters from the Army in Russian/Ukrainian War (Guest Speaker: Mikheil Elizbarashvili)
Mikheil (Misah) Elizbarashvili is from Georgia (the country), born in Tbilisi on March 8, 1979. He is married and has three children. He received a Bachelor of International Law in 2005 from Tbilisi International University of Business and Law. He has been an AVP (Alternatives to Violence Project) facilitator since 2008.
Tents, Hills, and Doing What is Right
Queries:
What is the invitation, hope, or challenge of this Psalm–to me?
What is the invitation, hope, or challenge of this Psalm–to us?
Pride and Joy
Queries:
What joy have you found through affirming yourself, your need, your hopes?
How have those who cherish you supported your liberation and becoming?
What can “Pride” teach us about God’s Love? About ourselves?
Why is the spirit of Pride disruptive? What does it disrupt?
How can joy be an act of resistance?
What can the joyful resistance of the LGBTQIA+ community teach us all?
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