Category: Formation
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Resurrection People #6: Resurrection, Pentecost, and George Floyd
Join with Rev. Sara Wilhelm Garbers and Dr. Christian Winn for their final installment of a six-week podcast series exploring the question: What does it mean to be a Resurrection people? This week the focus is a conversation about Resurrection & Pentecost and the Spirit’s work and desire that all might have enough air to…
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Monday Meditation #4: Grace to Breathe
This Monday Meditation I joined with Tracy Mooty who shares a special poem of prayer and reflection called “Woven Together.” You may download a copy of Tracy’s poem here. Let’s start our week with grace. #TheMondayMeditation
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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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Resurrection People #3: What Does it Mean to be a Resurrection People (Trauma & Resurrection)
Join with Rev. Sara Wilhelm Garbers and Dr. Christian Winn along with their guest Laura VanderTop in the third of a six-week podcast series exploring the question: What does it mean to be a Resurrection people? This week the focus is Resurrection & Trauma. Engage the conversation then on Facebook , Instagram, or via email with Sara or…
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Grace Actually Makes Us Bold (A Sermon on Ruth 1:1-14 & 18-22)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on May 3, 2020. Listen to the sermon below or watch the whole service on YouTube. 1 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his…
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Being a Resurrection People: Episode #1
During this strange time, one of my greatest locations of localized anxiety has been my concern that people in the community of faith where I am a minister might be feeling particularly isolated and unseen. Thus, I’ve been working collectively with others to offer intentional opportunities for people to connect for worship (via YouTube or…
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Grace Actually Sees (A Sermon on Luke 19:1-10)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on April 19, 2020. You can listen to the sermon below or watch the whole service on YouTube. 1 He entered Jericho and was passing through it. 2 A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was,…
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Good Friday Reflection (Mark 15:40-47)
A reflection given at Colonial Church as a part of the Good Friday Service on April 10, 2020. You can listen below. Or, you can watch the whole service on YouTube. 40 There were also women looking on from a distance; among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and…
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Hope Interrupts (A Sermon on Leviticus 23:1-8)
A sermon given at Colonial Church for Ash Wednesday on February 26, 2020. “The Lord spoke to Moses saying, ‘Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘These are the appointed festivals of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations, my appointed festivals.’ Six days shall work, be done, but the…
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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…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 