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“Canceling” the sacred little things

Perhaps if we’re offended that all our sacred things are now under scrutiny, we have too many sacred things. A quick glance over our internal curio cabinets reveals a bevy of fools’-gold calves. Sacred little things we couldn’t stand to admit are tarnished, because what would that say about their collectors?

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July 2022: Pay Attention [Queering Genesis]

During this sermon series, Queering Genesis, with a focus on the life of Joseph, we’ve been exploring how God can be understood and made known through even the lives of unconventional people.  It may be that you sometimes feel like a very conventional person. Or it may be that you don’t. Either way, you are…

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March 2022: No Cure Necessary [Disabling Lent]

Today, we’re continuing our Lenten series titled “Disabling Lent,” an exploration of disability justice, anti-ableism, and God’s image through the whole and holy lives of disabled people. And in particular, I want to contrast two events recorded in the Gospel commonly attributed to John.  Neither of these stories are inherently about disabled people, but I…

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January 2022: Guilt, Shame, or Transformation?

I had two ideas for what I wanted to talk about today as we continue our series titled Ojalá. Last week, M encouraged us to release our judgment and self-judgment and to prevent perfection from preventing us from what is good. The week before that, S kicked off the series and invited us to be…

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September 2021: Holy Children, People of Play

Up on the ground level, far from our roots, we are susceptible to commodifying even our joy – a hustle culture that lures us to ossify our happiness into an income stream. We live in a culture where people of color must achieve far more than white people do in ministry, in our careers, in our…

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July 2021: Paul [Troublemakers]

But it’s also important to consider the invitation Jesus issues to those who do have power. Because sometimes that’s us, and we need to be able to recall these stories when opportunity knocks on our door – when our invitation comes. And that invitation is to a good betrayal.

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July 2021: Naomi [Troublemakers]

I wanted to condense her into a single lesson for a single sermon. My instinct was to reduce Naomi into something bite-sized. But she refuses to be reduced. She’s not a paragon of faith without doubts or even of moral purity. The Davidic royal line is not a story of moral purity either. Along the…

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