Category: Justice
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Showing Up in the Arena (A Summary of Camp Pyro)
This sermon was a quick summary of the week I got to spend with the students at Camp Pyro. Given at Colonial Church on August 12, 2018. For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them, to one he gave five talents, to another…
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Breathe Out (A Sermon on II Corinthians 5:16-21)
Preached at Colonial Church on June 17, 2018. From now on therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So, if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation. Everything old…
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A Litany for Mother’s Day
To you who have nurtured us, who have struggled so that we might live and flourish in the world. To you who have cared for our bodies and souls, who have given of yourself to make our future possible. To you, our mothers who birthed us. To you, our mothers who adopted us as your…
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On Taking Back Our Power
The original version of this post appeared on Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light. You can access the text on their website or learn more about their work. I recently had the opportunity to preach at a local community of faith and I chose to talk about when Jesus met the woman at the well. Jesus…
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The Foolishness of the Cross (A Maundy Thursday Sermon on I Corinthians 1:18-31; with Jeff Lindsay)
This sermon was co-preached at Colonial Church for Maundy Thursday of Lent on March 29, 2018. You can listen to the sermon HERE. For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, ‘I will…
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Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 