Category: remember
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Birthing Josie and Myself (An Account)
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose their power and can be altered.” – Audre Lorde, “Uses of the Erotic” When I was a kid, my mom told me I’d never survive childbirth because I wasn’t strong like…
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Turning to the Wilderness (A Sermon on Luke 4:1-10)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on February 28, 2021. You can listen to the sermon below or you can watch the Alternative or Traditional service on YouTube. You can also watch the Kids’ Sermon HERE. Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he…
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Monday Meditation #45: Spiritual Practices
To kick off our Lenten journey, in this Monday Meditation I invite the community to consider the power of practices and share a few that have helped me participate in the Lenten journey of turning.
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God First (A Sermon on Judges 5:1-13)
Our relationship with God is supposed to shape who we are, and so that the call and the cry at the end of Judges, I’d argue, is best understood not as an apology for a monarchy, for a king here on earth to save us (even if that’s what the editors intended and what some…
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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…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 