Blessed are the Accused

 October 13, 2024 | Armando David Scott-Canchola | Mark 1:21-24, 3:20-35 In this series, we have drawn from the margins of scripture to see how God is setting a pattern of disruptive radical inclusion. In this sermon by Pastor Armando, we explore how this belonging reaches its culmination in God becoming flesh to dwell […]

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Blessed are the Embodied

 October 6, 2024 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Psalm 139 v1-16 Belonging begins IN our bodies and belonging is cultivated in community. The beginning of our belonging begins in the womb of God’s imagination and in the womb of our mothers who carried us. In Psalm 139 we see that Creator God who gave us […]

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Blessed are the Little Ones

 September 29, 2024 | Janet Hale | Matthew 19:14 Our very own Janet Hale, a kindergarten teacher of 30 years, teaches us how Jesus shows us his true nature by welcoming children into the kin-dom. She shares provocative truths about how children have taught her the inclusive love of God and how to connect […]

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Blessed are the Minimized

 September 22, 2024 | Maren Jo Schneider | Genesis 24 We’ve all heard that we worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but when you read Genesis like an English major, it’s not hard to see that a better name would be the God of Abraham, Rebekah, and Jacob. The text designates Rebekah […]

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Blessed are the Powerless

 September 15, 2024 | Nicola Patton | Joshua 2 The story of Rahab teaches us that morality is often a luxury but that God provides for the powerless. God is the God of radical inclusion and a border-crossing God who looks to tear down walls for us to belong together, not so that we […]

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Blessed are the Seen

 September 8, 2024 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Gen 16:7-16 Mother Hagar is the first human and first foreign woman to name God, the God who sees. This is in response to God naming her son, Ishmael, which means, God hears. She finds herself in a difficult predicament after being taken advantage of. Yet, God […]

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Hope is a Habit

 August 11, 2024 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde and Nicola Patton | Hebrews 6:12-19 The Voice In this communal sermon, Pastoras Nicola and Inés hold a conversation about hope. Hope is a habit that grows in the dark and hope has a root system. We created a communal poem of hope with the congregation because hope […]

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Justice is a Verb

 August 4, 2024 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Matthew 6:33 NRSV God is the author, architect, and arbiter of justice. From the Old Testament to the New, we see that God always has protested injustice and has preferential treatment for the marginalized. In the life and ethical work of Jesus, we are invited to live […]

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