Author: Sara WG
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On Being Christian (A Sermon on I John 4:7-21)
Given as a guest preacher at Colonial Church on December 27, 2015. You can listen to the sermon below. Beloved let us love one another because love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God, whoever does not love does not know God for God is love. God’s love was…
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Living in the Face of Fear
This spring I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of fear in our lives. One particular insight that has stayed with me is found in Adrian McFarlane’s text A Grammar of Fear and Evil (McFarlane, Adrian Anthony. A Grammar of Fear and Evil: A Husserlian-Wittgensteinian Hermeneutic. New York: P. Lang, 1996.). The section that has…
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“A Tale of Three Seminaries”…A Reappraisal
This post has been a long time in coming. Since 2008, like many of you, I’ve witnessed the conversations about the future of theological education online, in print, and in person…and specifically, have seen a lot of recent talk about the three Protestant seminaries of the Twin Cities (esp. on FB). Much of the discussion…
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On Love: #ReasontoRise
It’s Valentine’s Day…have you seen the posts from Sojourners about joining with One Billion Rising in speaking out against violence against women? I have and am writing as my act of solidarity with people around the globe to demand an end to gender violence. Particularly as a person of faith, I want to speak out this weekend…
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On Growing Up an Evangelical Woman
My pastor, Dan Collison, at First Covenant Church in Minneapolis asked if I would share my story of growing up as a female person in the evangelical church…and I wanted to share it with you. You can either read it below, or you can watch a version online. It is my story of navigating the conflicting…
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On the Eve of the Shutdown: Contemplation of the “Common Good”
What does it mean to be a citizen- a good citizen of our cities, of our countries, of our world…and of this planetary system? This fall I started my Ph.D. in Integrative Studies in Ethics and Theology. My focus is ethics. It has been amazing to read Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Luther, Niebuhr, Kittay, Nussbaum, etc.…
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Trayvon Martin, Racism, Sin… and Turning Toward the Other
I want to start by saying that I am grieved. I have been grieved for sometime now. It’s the down in your bones, knowing that the grief could consume you if it wanted to because it’s so real; but also the knowing that I could live outside of the knowing this grief if I want…
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On the Eve of the Election: “Bigot”; “Godless” … Reflections on Constructing the “Other”
Nov 6, 2012… I’ve been seeing the posts from my friends on Facebook. I feel it myself: the “ick” of wondering where we will be on November 7th when we wake up and find we have to keep on living with each other. We have to live with those with whom we disagree. How do…
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The Invitation to Reformation
I preached on Sunday at Pacific Lutheran University as a part of my work at Luther Seminary. I was anxious about preaching because of a few reasons: 1) I am not Lutheran and was afraid I’d mess up Lutheran theology; 2) I wanted to do well; 3) I wanted to represent Luther Seminary well; and…
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On Keeping up with the Jones: Wearing Birkenstocks and other Reflections
A little known fact about me: I grew up in poverty. Not the abject kind, but the kind that meant my mom’s income was below the poverty line my entire life (except for maybe one year). The kind where I know what it means to go to a foodshelf; to not have any groceries. The…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 