Category: Feminism
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Birthing Josie and Myself (An Account)
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose their power and can be altered.” – Audre Lorde, “Uses of the Erotic” When I was a kid, my mom told me I’d never survive childbirth because I wasn’t strong like…
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The Kin-Dom of God (A Sermon on John 15:12-17)
And that is the command we are given: the command to love one another, to lay down our lives, to be friends with all of God’s children, just as God has called and named us friends. No longer are we servants or slaves under some master. No, we are instead invited to follow brother Jesus…
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Grace Actually Restores (A Sermon on Ruth 2:8-13, 17-23)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on Mother’s Day: May 10, 2020. Listen to the sermon below or watch the whole service on YouTube. 8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women. 9 Keep your eyes on…
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A Christian Feminist Ethicist & Pastor on Sex and the Patriarchy
I was recently contacted by a journalist who was writing a piece about sexuality in the context of religion, and she reached out to me in particular as I identify as a feminist and a pastor. She asked me to respond to questions listed in italics below. In writing my response, I realized how much I’ve been…
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Love Story: Abby & Isaac’s Garden + T-Swift Wedding Meditation
*Note: My cousin Abby LOVES Taylor Swift. A few months ago, there was a viral tweet which invited people to list their top ten Taylor Swift songs. Since Abby isn’t on Twitter, I texted her to ask her top ten T-Swift songs and she responded with the following (of course, she didn’t exactly follow the…
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On Being a Bad Neighbor (A Sermon on Genesis 16)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on November 24, 2019. 16 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian slave-girl whose name was Hagar, 2 and Sarai said to Abram, “You see that the Lord has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my slave-girl; it may be that I…
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“Into Your Hands” (A Maundy Thursday Sermon on Luke 23:44-49)
Sermon given on Maundy Thursday 2019 at Colonial Church. It has been edited. 44 It was about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, 45 because of an eclipse of the sun. Then the curtain in the sanctuary was torn in two, 46 and Jesus uttered a loud cry…
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Advent. Day 3: Elizabeth. “Bearing New Things”
Note: This post originally appeared as a part of Colonial Church’s 2018 Advent Devotional Series. I finalized the edits for it on the night that my baby quit having a heartbeat…I got home around 10pm to discover that I, at 9.5 weeks pregnant, was bleeding and we ended up losing the baby. The profound nature…
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To love (eros) One’s Self
An opening invocation I gave at the “Love On” Event on November 11, 2018 “LOVE ON,” dreamed into being by Kelsey Kreider Starrs and friends, was a space to experience the healing presence of love in a variety of ways. When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 