Category: Poverty
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Faith & … Justice: Segregation in Culture & Life
Conversation Series returning on February 9th from 6:30 – 8:00pm via Zoom Zoom ID: 541-870-2251 Our call is clear: God loves and champions the cause of the oppressed, and we’re meant to image God by doing the same. Join us for a Conversation series continuing to explore themes of racial justice and the lack of it. We’ll uncover…
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Be The Church #2: The Color of Law
This fall, our podcast series “Be the Church” will feature two monthly episodes, the first one each month focuses on our sermon series and what we’re learning about the Bible and ourselves, and the second episode of each month focuses on our Faith & Justice text for the month. In this second episode, join Rev. Sara…
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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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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 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. 