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January 2011

Wrestling With Privilege

January 30, 2011 | Filed under: Sermons

Understanding race and class privilege is an important part of resisting oppressive systems in our culture, but it’s also important spiritual work. Come consider how understanding privilege and marginalization enhances your own healing and wholeness. Click here to listen (file length is 24:17): Sermon 2011 January 30

Remembering Dr. King

January 16, 2011 | Filed under: Sermons

Martin Luther King, Jr. is celebrated as the pivotal leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. But now it is more than 40 years since his assassination, and it is easy to forget—or not know!—that Dr. King’s teachings still have relevance for us today. Let us gather …

Learning To Love Our Luggage

January 1, 2011 | Filed under: Church Newsletter, Ministry, Pastoral Care

It’s a new year, and there’s lots of talk (as usual) about fresh starts, clean slates, and starting over. The past, it seems, is just luggage weighing us down, and if we can leave it behind, we can move forward faster, lighter, and unencumbered. My experience is that this is …

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