Category: Politics
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Resurrection People #4: What Does it Mean to be a Resurrection People (The Political & Resurrection, Part I)
Join with Rev. Sara Wilhelm Garbers and Dr. Christian Winn along with their guest Michele Steinke in the fourth of a six-week podcast series exploring the question: What does it mean to be a Resurrection people? This week the focus is part one of a two week exploration of Resurrection & the Political. Engage the…
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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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Hope Interrupts Power: A Sermon in the Midst of Coronavirus (Zech. 4:1-7)
A sermon given for Colonial Church during COVID on March 29, 2020 *Note- The text below reflects an edited version of the sermon that was actually shared with the Colonial Church community (it was edited for time). You can watch the whole original sermon on my YouTube page! 1 The angel who talked with me…
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Strangers in the Land (A Sermon on Deuteronomy 10:12-22)
Sermon given at Colonial Church on September 29, 2019. You can listen to the sermon online. 10:12 So now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all God’s ways, to love God, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart…
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Rise Up (A Sermon on I Corinthians 15:12-20)
This sermon was given at Colonial Church on February 11, 2019. 12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; 14 and if Christ has…
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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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“I’m Not Ready to Make Nice”: Reflections on the Inward Journey
Given for chapel at United Seminary on November 17, 2016 in the wake of the 2016 election. Three pieces were read before the sermon: “For the Unknown Self” by John O’Donohue Proverbs 4:20-27 “A Brave and Startling Truth” by Maya Angelou In the spring of 2003 I was enrolled in a course at the University…
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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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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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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. 