Category: Race
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Kingdom People #1: Anti-Racism, The Gospel, & 13th
Join us this summer for a series on what it means to be a Kingdom People. The first three episodes of our summer series will follow the work we are undertaking to be the church by committing to the work of anti-racism. On this Juneteenth, join with Rev. Sara Wilhelm Garbers, community and staff member Laura…
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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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On Bodies (A Sermon on I Corinthians 12:12-31)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on January 26, 2020. 12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we…
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The I AM: A Sermon for MLK Sunday (Exodus 3:1-15)
Sermon given at Colonial Church on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday, January 19, 2020. You can listen to the sermon online. 1 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of 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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The Good News in Which You Stand (A Sermon on I Corinthians 15:1-11)
This sermon was given at Colonial Church on February 4, 2019. 15 Now I would remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand, 2 through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that…
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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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“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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Trayvon Martin, Racism, Sin… and Turning Toward the Other
I want to start by saying that I am grieved. I have been grieved for sometime now. It’s the down in your bones, knowing that the grief could consume you if it wanted to because it’s so real; but also the knowing that I could live outside of the knowing this grief if I want…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 