TEN OF THE LESSONS I LEARNED IN MY ANABAPTIST CHILDHOOD Shelly Weaverdyck INTRODUCTION This reflection is part of a series of worship services where we are examining who we are and want to be at Shalom, both individually and as a community. Shalom has a heritage of Anabaptism, which includes Read more…
This is the audio from the sermon Jo Hatlem preached in candidacy for Shalom’s pastor.
When Doug and I first started dating he was beginning an obsession with birding. He grew up in Southern California, in an urban area, within a family that wasn’t particularly outdoorsy. As a kid the only birds he would see with any frequency were the seagulls that stole his Read more…
February 6, 2022Luke 5:1-11, Psalm 138 by Alison Casella Brookins I’m sitting in a dim conference room. It’s a brand new room. Tiers of curved tables wrap around the speaker. Outside the room in the main hall the ceiling stretches four stories high, above the full-grown live trees whose roots Read more…
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Jo, your question raises issues I hadn’t really given thoughts to. Love and knowledge are central to our existence. But the intersections are complex because there are different types of each and requires deep exploration which we don’t have time for now. Love and knowledge are interwoven Read more…
Scripture Reading and Reflections – Max Eckard As we planned today’s service, Trevor and I thought that the model Jodie and Nelson offered last week of diving into the lectionary text with scripture readings, reflections, and a message seemed to work relatively well, and so we’re repeating it today. I’ll Read more…
Nelson Shantz Introductory points: –today: scripture readings and message as one piece — same passages for all three years…must be important material! —my engagement as I read them…theme or arc of content connecting them –gratitude to some monk long ago –I’ll read the texts –offer comments & questions that came Read more…
