SERMON ARCHIVES (2014–2023)
We hold in-person/Zoom hybrid services every Sunday at 11am ET. Information about our Virtual and Hybrid services, including our Zoom webinar link, can be found on our Sunday Services page.
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Past sermons
You can watch past Sunday services on Vimeo. Edited videos, and podcasts (audio only) of the sermon portion of the service are also available, with links below.
Archived service recordings
2023 Virtual & Hybrid Services and Sermon Archives
DECEMBER
12.31.23 Sunday Service “Stories of St. Nicholas”
Emily Swan and friends
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Message and Music Video | Message and Music (mp3)
12.24.23 Christmas Eve Service
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo
12.17.23 Sunday Service “Advent: Finding Peace and Joy”
Lisa Ruby
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
12.10.23 Service Canceled due to Power Outage
12.03.23 Sunday Service “Advent: Standing Watch”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
NOVEMBER
11.26.23 Sunday Service “Icon-ic Stories: St. Francis and St. Brigid”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
11.19.23 Sunday Service “Icon-ic Stories: Queer Icons”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
11.12.23 Sunday Service “Icon-ic Stories: St. Rocco & Saint Olga, Everyday Saints”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
11.05.23 Sunday Service “Icon-ic Tales: Shadrach, Meshach, & Abednego”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
OCTOBER
10.29.23 Sunday Service “Shaped by Psalm 23: Prepare a Table”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
10.22.23 Sunday Service “Shaped by Psalm 23: Paths of Justice”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
10.15.23 Sunday Service “Shaped by Psalm 23: Restore My Soul”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
10.08.23 Sunday Service “Intentional Community”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
10.01.23 Sunday Service “Shaped by Psalm 23: The Gentle Shepherd”
Caroline Kittle
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
SEPTEMBER
09.24.23 Sunday Service “Ways of the Wilderness:
Of Deserts & Wanderings & Monastics” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
09.17.23 Sunday Service “Ways of the Wilderness:
The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries (TFAM)” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
09.10.23 Sunday Service “Ways of the Wilderness:
When Stories Crash” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
09.03.23 Sunday Service “A Pocket Full of Prayers:
Keep Watch, Dear Lord” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
AUGUST
08.27.23 No recorded service due to power outage
08.20.23 Sunday Service “A Pocket Full of Prayers:
Holy Spirit, Comforting Fire” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
08.13.23 Sunday Service “Pocket Full of Prayers: The Sarum Prayer”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
08.06.23 Sunday Service “On Prayer as Communion with God”
Caroline Kittle
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
JULY
07.02.23 Sunday Service “Characters We Love: Sheerah”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
07.23.23 Sunday Service “Speaking Truth to Power”
Crystal Harding
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
07.16.23 Sunday Service “Characters We Love: Jonah”
Christian Axelgard
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
07.09.23 Sunday Service “Characters We Love: Ruth”
Caroline Kittle
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
07.02.23 Sunday Service “Characters We Love: Barnabas”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
JUNE
06.25.23 Sunday Service “On Reparations” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
06.18.23 Sunday Service “On Juneteenth: A History” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
06.11.23 Sunday Service “Healing Communities: Zacchaeus
and Shame” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
06.04.23 Sunday Service “Healing Communities: Honest Speech”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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MAY
05.28.23 Sunday Service “Why and How We Can, and Should,
Love Our Neighbors” Lisa Ruby
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
05.21.23 Sunday Service “Healing Communities & Mental
Health: Let’s Talk About Resilience” Rachel Murr
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
05.14.23 Sunday Service “Healing Communities & Mental
Health: A Conversation” Caroline Kittle & Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
05.07.23 Sunday Service “Healing Communities & Mental
Health: Introduction” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
APRIL
04.30.23 Sunday Service “I Am Legion” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
04.23.23 Sunday Service “Was Jesus a Roman Slave?”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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04.16.23 Sunday Service “The World of Jesus: Road to Emmaus”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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04.09.23 Sunday Service “Easter: Death is Overcome”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
04.02.23 Sunday Service “The World of Jesus: Palm Sunday,
the Anti-Imperial Procession” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
MARCH
03.26.23 Sunday Service “The World of Jesus: Nonviolent Resistance”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
03.19.23 Sunday Service “The World of Jesus: Roman Occupation”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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03.12.23 Sunday Service “The World of Jesus: The Pharisees” Caroline Kittle
Service plan (pdf)
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03.05.23 Sunday Service “The World of Jesus: Maccabean Revolt” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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FEBRUARY
02.26.23 Sunday Service “The World of Jesus: Empire, Torah, Identity”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
02.19.23 Sunday Service “Diving Into Lent” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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02.12.23 Sunday Service “God Is Here: Becoming” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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02.05.23 Sunday Service “God Is Here: The Cloud” Caroline Kittle
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
JANUARY
01.29.23 Sunday Service “God Is Here: Consuming Fire” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
01.22.23 Sunday Service “God Is Here: My Heart’s Rock” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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01.15.23 Sunday Service “God is Here: The Place” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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01.08.23 Sunday Service “Joseph, Patron Saint of Allies?” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
01.01.23 Sunday Service “The Legacy of St. Nicholas of Myra: It’s Not About Naughty and Nice” Caroline Kittle
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
2022 Virtual & Hybrid Services and Sermon Archives
DECEMBER
12.18.22 Sunday Service “The Comfort of God” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
12.11.22 Sunday Service “Surviving Together With Joy”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
12.04.22 Sunday Service “The Biological Rhythms of Advent”
Special Guest, Gayle Boss
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
NOVEMBER
11.27.22 Sunday Service “Advent: Waiting in Holy Silence”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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11.20.22 Sunday Service “ Come and Drink” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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11.13.22 Sunday Service “Cultivating Open Hearts, Open Hands”
Caroline Kittle
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
11.06.22 Sunday Service “The Bible As a Means of Grace” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
OCTOBER
10.30.22 Sunday Service “All Saints Day: A Great Cloud of Witnesses”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
10.23.22 Sunday Service “The Jewishness of the New Testament, Part 2”
Special Guest, Dr. Sarah Emmanuel
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
10.16.22 Sunday Service “New Wineskins: Blue Ocean Vision” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
10.09.22 Sunday Service “The Jewishness of the New Testament, Part 1”
Special Guest, Dr. Sarah Emmanuel
Service plan (pdf)
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10.02.22 Sunday Service “Living Stones” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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SEPTEMBER
09.25.22 Sunday Service “Blue Ocean and the Quirky Category-Bending
Mustard Seed We Represent” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Notes | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
09.18.22 Sunday Service “Jesus Unplugged: Parable of the
Talents Reconstructed” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
09.11.22 Sunday Service “God Loves You Just As You Are”
Guest Speaker Liz Dyer
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
09.04.22 Sunday Service “Jesus Unplugged: Justice Over Fairness“
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
AUGUST
08.28.22 Sunday Service “What I Love About Blue Ocean as I Retire:
A Preserved Hope” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Notes | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
08.21.22 Sunday Service “Jesus Unplugged: The Great Banquet”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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08.14.22 Sunday Service “What I Love About Blue Ocean as I Retire: Part 2”
Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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08.07.22 Sunday Service “Jesus Unplugged: The Widow and the Mite”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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JULY
07.31.22 Sunday Service “Bird God: Contemplatives In Action”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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07.24.22 Sunday Service “What I Love About Blue Ocean as I Retire: Part 1”
Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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07.17.22 Sunday Service “Bird God: Ark of Nests” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
07.10.22 Sunday Service “The Divine & Human Mystery of Identity”
Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Notes | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
07.03.22 Sunday Service “Songwriting and Psalm 61”
Guest Speaker Susan Shaffer
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3) |Psalm 61 Song
JUNE
06.26.22 Sunday Service “Birds as Messengers of Divine Presence” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Notes | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
06.19.22 Sunday Service “Bird God: Fierce, Loving, Protective”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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06.12.22 Sunday Service “I Had Hoped…” Guest Speaker Sarah Bessey
Service plan (pdf)
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06.05.22 Sunday Service “Uncontainable Spirit” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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MAY
05.29.22 Sunday Service “On Friendship” Caroline Kittle
Service plan (pdf)
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05.22.22 Sunday Service “Learning As We Grow” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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05.15.22 Sunday Service “Give Me Justice” Guest Speaker David Gushee
Service plan (pdf)
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05.08.22 Sunday Service “A Prayer in the Face of Threats” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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05.01.22 Sunday Service “Come, Have Breakfast” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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APRIL
04.24.22 Sunday Service “Confused About the Resurrection? Join the Club!”
Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Notes | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
04.17.22 Easter Sunday Service “Baptism: What’s the Point?” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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04.10.22 Palm Sunday Service “Holy Week: Why It Matters” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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04.03.22 Sunday Service “Accept the Things We Cannot Change”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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MARCH
03.27.22 Sunday Service “Working Toward Liberation Through Community”
Guest Speaker AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez
Service plan (pdf)
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03.20.22 Sunday Service “Humor for Survival” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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03.13.22 Sunday Service “The Difference a Translation Makes: The Lord’s Prayer”
Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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03.06.22 Sunday Service “Finding Joy: Help for Anger and Despair” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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FEBRUARY
02.27.22 Sunday Service “Lent: An Alternative Approach to Time” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Sermon Notes | Sermon Video | Sermon Podcast (mp3)
02.20.22 Sunday Service “On Liturgy” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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02.13.22 Sunday Service “Perfection Not Required for
Divine Connection” Susan King
Service plan (pdf)
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02.06.22 Sunday Service “Both Sides Now” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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JANUARY
01.30.22 Sunday Service “A Deeper Look at Psalm 42 and Korah’s Rebellion”
Caroline Kittle
Service plan (pdf)
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01.23.22 Sunday Service “Love From Both Sides Now: Perspective”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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01.16.22 Sunday Service “Expressing Injury Anger with Psalm 27”
Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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01.09.22 Sunday Service “Reconstruction in a Nutshell: Honoring
Archbishop Desmond Tutu” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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01.02.22 Sunday Service “Going Through Deconstruction? It’s Like Untangling
a Knotted Ball of Yarn” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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2021 Virtual & Hybrid Service and Sermon Archives
DECEMBER
12.26.21 Sunday Service “Making Room for More Miriam at Christmas”
Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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12.24.21 Christmas Eve Virtual Service
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12.19.21 Sunday Service “Jesus was a Refugee” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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12.12.21 Sunday Service “Trust Joy” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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12.05.21 Sunday Service “Prepare the Way” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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NOVEMBER
11.28.21 Sunday Service “Don’t judge, Don’t boast, Love others.” Caroline Kittle
Service plan (pdf)
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11.21.21 Sunday Service “Psalm 27” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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11.14.21 Sunday Service “Treat the Immigrant Like a Citizen” Rabbi Josh Whinston
Service plan (pdf)
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11.07.21 Sunday Service “What an Emerging Divine Realm Might Look Like”
Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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OCTOBER
10.31.21 Sunday Service “Special Service for All Saints Day: A Service of Lament”
Service plan (pdf)
Watch on Vimeo | Litany of Lament Video | Litany of Lament Podcast (mp3)
10.24.21 Sunday Service “Counting Our Losses and the Folly of
Comparative Suffering” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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10.17.21 Sunday Service “Embracing Reciprocity” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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10.10.21 Sunday Service “Introducing G-d: Three Early Surprises” Ken Wilson
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10.03.21 Sunday Service “Clearing a Path” Emily Swan
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SEPTEMBER
09.26.21 Sunday Service “Weeping for Joy” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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09.19.21 Sunday Service “Yom Kippur: A Time for Christians to Atone
for Some Bad Theology” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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09.12.21 Sunday Service “Feeling Safe: The Problem with Two
Mistranslations” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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09.05.21 Sunday Service “To Be Human Is to Suffer” Emily Swan
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AUGUST
08.29.21 Sunday Service “Supporting Grieving Loved Ones” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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08.22.21 Sunday Service “When You’re Going Through It,
Practice Self Kindness” Ken Wilson
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08.15.21 Sunday Service “I Lift My Eyes” Emily Swan
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08.08.21 Sunday Service “How Do You Read It?” Ken Wilson
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08.01.21 Sunday Service “Walking on Water” Emily Swan
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JULY
07.25.21 Sunday Service “Wanderings: A Spirituality Suited to Uncertainty”
Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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07.18.21 Sunday Service “Jonah in the Belly” Emily Swan
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07.11.21 Sunday Service “The Emotions of Big Transitions” Emily Swan
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07.04.21 Sunday Service “In a Big Transition, Increase Your Stores
of Trust” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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JUNE
06.27.21 Sunday Service “Putting the Puzzle Together” Susan Shaffer
Service plan (pdf)
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06.20.21 Sunday Service “The Dead Sea Rejuvenated: An Image of
Thriving After Adversity” Caroline Kittle
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06.13.21 Sunday Service “Taking Stock as a Siege Recedes” Ken Wilson
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06.06.21 Sunday Service “The Vine and the Branches” Emily Swan
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MAY
05.30.21 Sunday Service “The Physical-Emotional-Ethical-Mystical
Logic of Ritual” Ken Wilson
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05.23.21 Sunday Service “Holy Spirit: All the Truth”
Guest Speaker, David Borger Germann
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05.16.21 Sunday Service “Soul Incubation” Emily Swan
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05.09.21 Sunday Service “Attachment Bond Spirituality” Ken Wilson
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MamaBear Minute
05.02.21 Sunday Service “The Spirit Intercedes” Emily Swan
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APRIL
04.25.21 Sunday Service “Fire from Heaven? I Object!” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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04.18.21 Sunday Service “Jesus Feeds the 5000” Emily Swan
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04.11.21 Sunday Service “The Resurrection Appearance Feeling Cloud”
Ken Wilson
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04.04.21 Sunday Service “Hope Begins In the Dark” Emily Swan
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MARCH
03.28.21 Sunday Service “The Palm Sunday Mixed-Emotion Cocktail”
Ken Wilson
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03.21.21 Sunday Service “Alone” Susan Shaffer
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03.14.21 Sunday Service “Seeds for Thought: Expressing Emotion
through Imagination” Caroline Kittle
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03.07.21 Sunday Service “The Mixed Feelings We Might Have
About Praise” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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FEBRUARY
02.28.21 Sunday Service “After Evangelicalism: A Path to a New Christianity”
Guest Speaker Dr. David Gushee
Service plan (pdf)
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02.21.21 Sunday Service “Cultivating Wonder” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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02.14.21 Sunday Service “Divine Wisdom: At Ease With Our Need to Find Out for Ourselves” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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02.07.21 Sunday Service “Consolations From Qoheleth” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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JANUARY
01.31.21 Sunday Service “Cohelet (Ecclesiastes): Patron Saint of the Disillusioned” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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01.24.21 Sunday Service “My Own Vine and Fig Tree” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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01.17.21 Sunday Service “Words of an Ancient Prophet to Our
Emotional Distress” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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01.10.21 Sunday Service “God with Us in Our Turmoil” Guest Speaker
Rev. Dr. Harold Trulear
Service plan (pdf)
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01.03.21 Sunday Service “Lessons from the Magi Story” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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2020 Virtual Services and Sermon Archives
DECEMBER
12.27.20 Sunday Service “St. Nicholas Stories and Traditions” Cassie Richardson
Service plan (pdf)
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12.24.20 Christmas Eve Service “Readings, Carols, and Candles”
Service plan (pdf) | Watch on Vimeo
12.20.20 Sunday Service “How to Talk to Ourselves in Such a Time as This”
Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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12.13.20 Sunday Service “Word Made Flesh” Susan Shaffer
Service plan (pdf)
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12.06.20 Sunday Service “A Bedtime Prayer: Hear, O Israel,
the Lord Our God is One” Caroline Kittle
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NOVEMBER
11.29.20 Sunday Service “Advent: A Portal into Hope” Ken Wilson
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11.22.20 Sunday Service “Thanksgiving & Greetings to the Natural World”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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11.15.20 Sunday Service “Blue Ocean Membership and a Faith-Journey Story”
Ken Wilson and guest Amy McNeil
Service plan (pdf)
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11.08.20 Sunday Service “It’s okay to celebrate” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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11.01.20 Sunday Service “Elections Survival Psalm Mediation” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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OCTOBER
10.25.20 Sunday Service “Pre-Election Psalm” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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10.18.20 Sunday Service “The Greatest Story is that All Life is One”
Guest Speaker, Carl Safina
Service plan (pdf)
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10.11.20 Sunday Service “Communion Table: Peace Through Justice” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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10.04.20 Sunday Service “It Feels Like the Apocalypse!” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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SEPTEMBER
09.27.20 Sunday Service “Jesus and Empire” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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09.20.20 Sunday Service ” We Could Use a G-d of Becoming Right Now”
Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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09.13.20 Sunday Service “Jesus Had the Family Blues Too”
Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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09.06.20 Sunday Service “Why We Say Kin-dom of God” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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AUGUST
08.30.20 Sunday Service “Holding Space for Each Other”
AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez
Service plan (pdf)
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08.23.20 Sunday Service “Exodus and Its Most Bizarre Episode” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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08.16.20 Sunday Service “A Burning Bush Moment” Rev. Cedric Lundy
Service plan (pdf)
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08.09.20 Sunday Service “Finding Peace In All Circumstances” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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08.02.20 Sunday Service “Making Space for Hope” Cassie Richardson
Service plan (pdf)
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JULY
07.26.20 Sunday Service “The Exodus Mirror and the Problem of the
Religious Ego” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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07.19.20 Sunday Service “The Complicit Egyptians” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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07.12.20 Sunday Service “Miriam: Holder of Hope, Ready to Rise”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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07.05.20 Sunday Service “Midrash, Moses, and Unlearning White Supremacy”
Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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JUNE
06.28.20 Sunday Service “Give Us Our Inheritance: The Story of
Mahlah, Noa, Hoglah, Milkah, and Tirzah” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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06.21.20 Sunday Service “The Cost of Safety” Guest Speaker Bishop-elect
Darrell Goodwin of the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries (TFAM)
Service plan (pdf)
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06.14.20 Sunday Service “Shiphrah and Puah Spark a Liberation Movement”
Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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06.07.20 Sunday Service “You Shall Not Follow the Many for Harm—
Sinai’s Radical Vision of Equal Justice” Ken Wilson
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MAY
05.31.20 Sunday Service “Sinai, Pentecost, Minneapolis” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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05.24.20 Sunday Service “Coming Back to Myself” Cassie Richardson
& Liz Dyer
Service plan (pdf)
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05.17.20 Sunday Service Canceled—ZOOM is down (worldwide)
05.10.20 Sunday Service “We Remember the Light” Emily Swan
Service plan (pdf)
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05.03.20 Sunday Service “When Facing a Current Crisis,
Remember a Past Deliverance” Ken Wilson
Service plan (pdf)
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APRIL
04.26.20 Sunday Service “Enough to Sustain: Elijah & God’s Care for Us”
Emily Swan & Liz Dyer
Service plan (pdf)
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04.19.20 Sunday Service “Psalm 131 and Learning to Calm Ourselves”
Ken Wilson & Liz Dyer
Service plan (pdf)
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04.12.20 Sunday Service “Easter Sunday: The Presence of God Is Near”
Emily Swan & Liz Dyer
Service plan (pdf)
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04.05.20 Sunday Service “Palm Sunday: The Importance of Geography & Gestures”
Ken Wilson & Liz Dyer
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MARCH
03.29.20 Sunday Service “Sufficient Unto the Day—Gammy’s Spirituality of Resilience”
Ken Wilson & Liz Dyer
Service plan (pdf)
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03.22.20 Sunday Service “Coping with the Pandemic” Emily Swan
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2020 (In-person) Sunday Service and Sermon Archives
03.08.20 Sunday Service “Job: When Faith Shaped by Privilege Hits a Wall”
Emily Swan.
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03.01.20 Sunday Service “Job: An Intro” Emily Swan.
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FEBRUARY
02.23.20 Sunday Service “Nurturing the Spirit in Spirituality: Pray & Act”
Emily Swan.
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02.16.20 Sunday Service “Nurturing the Spirit in Spirituality: Liberating Praise”
Emily Swan.
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02.09.20 Sunday Service “Engaging the Spirit in Spirituality: The Loosening
of Our Tongues” Ken Wilson.
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02.02.20 Sunday Service “Engaging the Spirit in Spirituality: God’s Feminine
Side” Ken Wilson.
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JANUARY
01.26.20 Sunday Service “God Meets Us In Our Troubles: Jesus Responds
to the Grief of Mary and Martha” Emily Swan.
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01.19.20 Sunday Service “Self-Kindness as a Spiritual Practice: Notes from an
Older Tradition” Ken Wilson.
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01.12.20 Sunday Service “War and Peace” Emily Swan.
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01.05.20 Sunday Service “Self-Kindness as a Spiritual Practice” Ken Wilson.
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2019 Sunday Service and Sermon Archives
12.29.19 Sunday Service “St. Nicholas Stories and Traditions” Guest Speaker
Cassie Richardson.
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12.22.19 Sunday Service “Monsters of the Bible: Fiery Cherubim on Wheels”
Emily Swan.
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12.15.19 Sunday Service “Monsters of the Bible: Facing Down Our Giants”
Ken Wilson.
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12.08.19 Sunday Service “Monsters of the Bible: Leviathan” Emily Swan.
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12.01.19 Sunday Service “Monsters of the Bible: What the devil is Satan about?”
Ken Wilson.
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NOVEMBER
11.24.19 Sunday Service “Monsters of the Bible: Rabisu the Crouching Predator”
Emily Swan.
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11.17.19 Sunday Service “The Lord Is My Shepherd” Emily Swan.
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11.10.19 Sunday Service “Living With a Long-Term Sadness-Ache” Ken Wilson.
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11.03.19 Sunday Service “We’re Surrounded by Loved Ones Just Beyond Our
Four Dimensions” Ken Wilson.
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OCTOBER
10.27.19 Sunday Service “The Fruit Doesn’t Lie” Guest Speaker Liz Dyer.
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10.20.19 Sunday Service “eXvangelicals: Beyond Toxic Religion—Fundagelicalism
and Reclaiming Scripture” Ken Wilson.
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10.13.19 Sunday Service “eXvangelicals: Beyond Toxic Religion—Telling the Truth
(to Others)” Emily Swan.
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10.06.19 Sunday Service “eXvangelicals: Beyond Toxic Religion—Telling the Truth
(to Ourselves)” Emily Swan.
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SEPTEMBER
09.29.19 Sunday Service “eXvangelicals: Beyond Toxic Religion—
Three Tools for Deconstruction” Ken Wilson.
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09.22.19 Sunday Service “Jesus, Gender, and Toxic Masculinity:
Courage to be Ourselves” Ken Wilson.
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09.15.19 Sunday Service “Jesus, Gender, and Toxic Masculinity:
Reflecting on God Beyond Gender” Emily Swan.
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09.08.19 Sunday Service “Jesus, the Gender-Bender and the
Complementarity Myth” Ken Wilson.
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09.01.19 Sunday Service “It’s a Wonder-Full Life’” Guest Speaker Susan Shaffer.
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AUGUST
08.25.19 Sunday Service “We Don’t Say, ‘You Can’t Play’” Guest Speaker Cassie Brabbs.
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08.18.19 Sunday Service “The 3 Kinds of Empathy and Empathy Blockers” Ken Wilson.
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08.11.19 Sunday Service “It Takes a Village: Empathy, Inclusion, and Wonder” Emily Swan.
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08.04.19 Sunday Service “A Spiritual Journey” guest speaker Josh Reimer.
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JULY
07.28.19 Sunday Service “Staying in God’s Peace” guest speaker Crystal Harding.
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07.21.19 Sunday Service “Fresh Wind: Connecting with the Body of Christ”
Emily Swan and guest speaker Carla Huff.
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07.14.19 Sunday Service “Earth, Dirt, Gardens: Finding God in the
Extraordinary Ordinary—Praying in the Outdoor Cathedral” Ken Wilson.
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07.07.19 Sunday Service “Earth, Dirt, Gardens: Finding God in the
Extraordinary Ordinary—The Human-Divine-Dirt Connection” Ken Wilson.
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JUNE
06.30.19 Sunday Service “Earth, Dirt, Gardens: Finding God in the
Extraordinary Ordinary—A Work in Progress” Emily Swan.
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06.23.19 Sunday Service “Earth, Dirt, Gardens: Finding God in the
Extraordinary Ordinary—The Longing for Eden” Emily Swan.
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06.16.19 Sunday Service “Lady Wisdom: Loud, Assertive, Sassy, Serious,
Alluring, Playful” Ken Wilson.
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06.09.19 Sunday Service “Pentecostal Freedom: To Speak Up and
To Lean In Toward the Other” Ken Wilson.
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06.02.19 Sunday Service “Mid-Storm Peace” Ken Wilson.
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MAY
05.26.19 Sunday Service “Justice, Money, and Unearned Advantages:
Perspectives from a Strange Parable” Guest Speaker David Borger Germann.
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05.19.19 Sunday Service “New Creation Stories: Our Wounds Here are
Known There” Ken Wilson.
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05.12.19 Sunday Service “Times of Transition, John 21” Emily Swan.
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05.05.19 Mitzvah Day Joint service with St. Clare/Temple Beth Emeth (no video recording)
APRIL
04.28.19 Sunday Service “The Intersection of Faith and the Scientific Method”
Guest Speaker Mike Liemohn.
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04.21.19 Sunday Service “Jesus, His So-Called Friends, and
the Dramas We Find Ourselves In” Ken Wilson.
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04.14.19 Sunday Service “Black Jesus/White Jesus” Emily Swan.
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04.07.19 Sunday Service “What’s the Meaning of the Cross & Resurrection?” Emily Swan.
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MARCH
03.31.19 Sunday Service “Four Scenes in the Life of Jesus:
The Psychology of Scapegoating” Ken Wilson.
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03.24.19 Sunday Service “Imitating Love” Emily Swan.
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03.17.19 Sunday Service “We Cannot Forget Joseph” Ken Wilson.
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03.10.19 Sunday Service “What We Learn From Suicidal Pigs” Emily Swan.
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03.03.19 Sunday Service “Lent Preview: An Alternative Approach to Time” Ken Wilson.
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FEBRUARY
02.24.19 Sunday Service “What’s It Feel Like to Experience God? Discerning
When We Can Trust Our Own Minds” Emily Swan and Caroline Kittle.
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02.17.19 Sunday Service “What’s It Feel Like to Experience God?
(And how might we notice it happening more often?)” Ken Wilson.
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02.10.19 Sunday Service “What’s It Feel Like to Experience God? Week 2”
Guest Speaker Ben.
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02.03.19 Sunday Service “What’s It Feel Like to Experience God?
Small Steps in the Dark” Emily Swan.
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JANUARY
01.27.19 Sunday Service “The Short Stories of Jesus: The Parable of
the Surprising Salaries” Emily Swan.
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01.20.19 Sunday Service “The Short Stories of Jesus: A Man Had Two Sons” Ken Wilson.
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01.13.19 Sunday Service “The Short Stories of Jesus:
The Pharisee and the Tax Collector” Emily Swan.
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01.06.19 Sunday Service “The Short Stories of Jesus:
Leaven Hiders & Party Throwers” Ken Wilson.
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2018 Sunday Service and Sermon Archives
12.30.18 Sunday Service “St. Nicholas Stories and Traditions”
Guest Speaker Cassie Brabbs.
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12.23.18 Sunday Service “How We Wait, Week 4: Believing and Expectant” Ken Wilson.
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12.16.18 Sunday Service “How We Wait, Week 3: Surrounded, Worshipful” Emily Swan.
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12.09.18 Sunday Service “How We Wait, Week 2: Perplexed, Surrendering” Ken Wilson.
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12.02.18 Sunday Service “How We Wait, Week 1: Wide-Eyed and Looking for Signs” Emily Swan.
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NOVEMBER
11.25.18 Sunday Service “Questioning the Sinner Label” Ken Wilson.
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11.18.18 Sunday Service “The Widow at the Temple: A Different Lens” Emily Swan.
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11.11.18 Sunday Service “Bartimaeus and the Affirmation of Agency” Ken Wilson.
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11.04.18 Sunday Service “Reflections on the Feast of All Saints” Emily Swan.
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OCTOBER
10.28.18 Sunday Service “Reintegrating Our Faith Stories” Ken Wilson.
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10.21.18 Sunday Service “My Journey to Becoming Affirming” Guest Speaker Liz Dyer.
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10.14.18 Sunday Service “Self Care as an Act of Resistance” Emily Swan.
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10.07.18 Sunday Service “Allies: The Way of Love From the Beginning” Ken Wilson.
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SEPTEMBER
09.30.18 Sunday Service “Reclaiming Christianity for Jesus, Justice, & the Common Good” Emily Swan.
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09.23.18 Sunday Service “Navigating the Hard Questions: The Praying-for-Things Dilemma” Ken Wilson.
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09.16.18 Sunday Service “Navigating the Hard Questions: Interfaith Jesus” Emily Swan.
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09.09.18 Sunday Service “Navigating the Hard Questions (Like Hell)” Ken Wilson.
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09.02.18 Sunday Service “Navigating the Hard Questions: Patriarchy in the Bible” Emily Swan.
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AUGUST
08.26.18 Sunday Service “A Transgender Interpretation of Esther” Guest Speaker Andy Deeb.
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08.19.18 Sunday Service “Esther is Burlesque: Part 3” Emily Swan.
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08.12.18 Sunday Service “Esther is Burlesque: Part 2” Emily Swan.
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08.05.18 Sunday Service “Surprising Abundance from a Meager Offering” Ken Wilson.
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JULY
07.29.18 Sunday Service “Esther is Burlesque” Emily Swan.
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07.22.18 Sunday Service “How to Handle a Bully: Jesus v. Herod” Ken Wilson.
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07.15.18 Sunday Service “Comfort: When Thoughts & Prayers Are Not Enough”
Guest Speaker Cassie Brabbs.
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07.08.18 Sunday Service “The God Who Sees Me” Guest Speaker Cristy Starkweather.
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07.01.18 Sunday Service “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph Were Asylum Seekers” Ken Wilson.
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JUNE
06.24.18 Sunday Service “The Power of Faith and Acceptance in Transition”
Guest Speaker Lilianna Angel Reyes.
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06.17.18 Sunday Service “The 12 Steps for Anyone: Helping You is Helping Me (Step 12)” Ken Wilson.
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06.10.18 Sunday Service “The 12 Steps for Anyone: Improving Conscious Contact (Step 11)” Ken Wilson.
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MAY
05.27.18 Sunday Service “Tested to Become Diamonds” Guest Speaker Rev. Dr. Renee Jackson.
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05.20.18 Sunday Service “The 12 Steps for Anyone: Daily Amends (Step 10)” Ken Wilson.
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05.13.18 Sunday Service “The 12 Steps for Anyone: On Amend-Making (Steps 7–9)” Ken Wilson.
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05.06.18 Sunday Service “An Interfaith Vision” Guest Speaker Christine Modey.
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APRIL
04.29.18 Sunday Service “The 12 Steps for Anyone: Doing Hard Things with a Little Help
from Our Friends (Steps 4–6)” Ken Wilson.
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04.22.18 Sunday Service “The Power of Stories: Participating in God’s Story,
and Letting God Reshape Ours” Guest Speaker Molly Morton.
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04.15.18 Sunday Service “The 12 Steps for Anyone: How to Say More with Less
About God” Ken Wilson.
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04.08.18 Sunday Service “The 12 Steps for Anyone: How Alcoholics Anonymous
Changed the Spiritual Landscape for Everyone” Ken Wilson.
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04.01.18 Sunday Service “Easter Sunday—The Gospel for Eddie & Tom” Ken Wilson.
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MARCH
03.25.18 Sunday Service “Prayer: The Shaping of Desire—Getting in the Mood
for Jesus Week” Ken Wilson.
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03.18.18 Sunday Service “Prayer: The Shaping of Desire—Connecting to Our True Self” Emily Swan.
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03.11.18 Sunday Service “Prayer: The Shaping of Desire—How I Learned to Calm Myself” Ken Wilson.
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03.04.18 Sunday Service “Prayer: The Shaping of Desire—Singing Our Prayers” Ken Wilson.
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FEBRUARY
02.25.18 Sunday Service “Prayer: The Shaping of Desire—Fixed-Hour Prayer” Emily Swan.
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02.18.18 Sunday Service “Prayer: The Shaping of Desire—The Serenity Prayer” Ken Wilson.
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02.11.18 Sunday Service “Ready, Set, Lent!” Ken Wilson.
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02.04.18 Sunday Service “The Elements of Worship: The Lord’s Prayer.” Emily Swan.
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JANUARY
01.28.18 Sunday Service “The Elements of Worship: Sermons.” Ken Wilson.
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01.21.18 Sunday Service “The Elements of Worship: Hymns, Part 2.” Emily Swan.
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01.14.18 Sunday Service “The Elements of Worship: Gospel Hymns.” Ken Wilson.
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MLK Day Remarks on Racism (pdf) | MLK Day Remarks Video
01.07.18 Sunday Service “The Elements of Worship: Communion.” Emily Swan.
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2017 Sunday Service and Sermon Archives
12.31.17 Sunday Service “The Elements of Worship: The Sarum Prayer.” Ken Wilson.
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12.24.17 Christmas Eve (morning) Service: Lessons, Carols, and Candles | Watch on Vimeo
12.17.17 Sunday Service “Taking Advantage or Sharing It: An Alternative Approach to Power,
Week 3.” Ken Wilson.
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12.10.17 Sunday Service “Taking Advantage or Sharing It: An Alternative Approach to Power,
Week 2.” Emily Swan.
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12.3.17 Sunday Service “Taking Advantage or Sharing It: An Alternative Approach to Power,
Week 1.” Ken Wilson.
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NOVEMBER
11.26.17 Sunday Service “Understanding Our Limits: Humility as the Path to Love,
Week 5.” Ken Wilson.
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11.19.17 Sunday Service “Understanding Our Limits: Humility as the Path to Love,
Week 4.” Emily Swan.
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11.12.17 Sunday Service “Understanding Our Limits: Humility as the Path to Love,
Week 3.” Emily Swan.
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11.5.17 Sunday Service “Understanding Our Limits: Humility as the Path to Love,
Week 2.” Ken Wilson.
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OCTOBER
10.29.17 Sunday Service “Understanding Our Limits: Humility as the Path to Love,
Week 1.” Emily Swan.
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10.22.17 Sunday Service “Braving the Wilderness: Week 5.” Ken Wilson.
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10.15.17 Sunday Service “Braving the Wilderness: Week 4.” Emily Swan.
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10.8.17 Sunday Service “Braving the Wilderness: Week 3.” Emily Swan.
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10.1.17 Sunday Service “Braving the Wilderness: Week 2.” Ken Wilson.
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SEPTEMBER
9.24.17 Sunday Service “Braving the Wilderness: Week 1.” Ken Wilson.
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9.17.17 Sunday Service “WhyChristian? Week 5.” Emily Swan
& Guest Speaker Brandon Carruth.
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9.10.17 Sunday Service “WhyChristian? Week 4.” Ken Wilson.
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9.3.17 Sunday Service “WhyChristian? Week 3.” Guest Speaker Rachel Murr.
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AUGUST
8.27.17 Sunday Service “WhyChristian? Week 2.” Emily Swan.
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8.20.17 Sunday Service “WhyChristian? Week 1.” Ken Wilson.
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8.13.17 Sunday Service “Hatred Will Not Overcome Us.” Guest Speaker Andy Deeb.
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8.6.17 Sunday Service “Savoring Life: Animals and Land.” Emily Swan.
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JULY
7.30.17 Sunday Service “Savoring Life: Sabbath, Week 4.” Ken Wilson.
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7.23.17 Sunday Service “Savoring Life: Sabbath, Week 3.” Emily Swan.
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7.16.17 Sunday Service “Savoring Life: Sabbath, Week 2.” Ken Wilson.
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7.9.17 Sunday Service “Savoring Life: Sabbath, Week 1.” Emily Swan.
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7.2.17 Sunday Service “John 20.” Ken Wilson.
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JUNE
6.25.17 Sunday Service “Psalm 23.” Ken Wilson.
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6.18.17 Sunday Service “God’s Preferential Option for the Poor.”
Guest Speaker Rev. Brooke Pickrell.
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6.11.17 Sunday Service “The Radical Revision of Our Image of God.” Ken Wilson.
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6.4.17 Sunday Service “God is Everywhere.” Emily Swan.
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MAY
5.28.17 Sunday Service “The Things You Can Get Away With Saying in a Psalm.” Ken Wilson.
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5.21.17 Sunday Service “Free Martha.” Emily Swan.
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5.14.17 Sunday Service “What Way?” Ken Wilson.
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5.7.17 Mitzvah Day (Sunday of Service)—joint service with St. Clare’s Episcopal and Temple Beth Emeth.
APRIL
4.30.17 Sunday Service “Altars and Wells.” Emily Swan.
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4.23.17 Sunday Service “The Shaping of a World View.” Guest Speaker Rev. Dr. Renee Jackson.
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4.16.17 Sunday Service “Easter Sunday Service: Carl’s Question, Take 3.” Ken Wilson.
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4.9.17 Sunday Service “Palm Sunday Service: The Death of the Scapegoat.” Emily Swan.
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4.2.17 Sunday Service “Jesus and the Disinherited: Love Lets the Other Blow Your Blinders Off.” Ken Wilson.
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MARCH
3.26.17 Sunday Service “Jesus and the Disinherited: Resisting Hatred.” Emily Swan.
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3.19.17 Sunday Service “Jesus and the Disinherited: Deception.” Ken Wilson.
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3.12.17 Sunday Service “Jesus and the Disinherited: Overcoming Fear.” Caroline Kittle.
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3.5.17 Sunday Service “Jesus and the Disinherited: Power for the Weak.” Emily Swan.
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FEBRUARY
2.26.17 Sunday Service “Lenten Leap of Faith Introduction.” Ken Wilson.
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2.19.17 Sunday Service “Making Contact: Mercy NOT Sacrifice.” Guest Speaker John West.
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2.12.17 Sunday Service “Making Contact: Art is Better than Straight Talk.” Ken Wilson.
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2.5.17 Sunday Service “Making Contact: Jesus’s Anger at Injustices.” Emily Swan.
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JANUARY
1.29.17 Sunday Service “Making Contact: Luke 24 as a Model for Meeting Jesus Today.” Ken Wilson.
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1.22.17 Sunday Service “Making Contact: Emmanuel Prayer.” Cassie Brabbs.
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1.15.17 Sunday Service “Making Contact: A Jewish Approach to Scripture.”
Guest Speaker Rabbi Dr. Mark Kinzer.
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1.8.17 Sunday Service “Making Contact: Epiphany and the Risen Jesus.” Emily Swan.
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1.1.17 Sunday Service “Stephen’s Stoning: A Faith Perspective on How to be an Ally.” Ken Wilson.
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2016 Sunday Service and Sermon Archives
12.24.16 Christmas Eve Service: “Lessons, Carols, and Candles.” Watch on Vimeo
12.18.16 Sunday Service: “Advent Week 4: The Art of the Complaint.” Ken Wilson.
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12.11.16 Sunday Service: “Advent Week 3: Mary’s Song.” Emily Swan.
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12.4.16 Sunday Service: “Advent Week 2: The Shoot from the Stump.” Emily Swan.
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NOVEMBER
11.27.16 Sunday Service: “Advent Week 1: Hoping For and Working Toward a Better Future.” Ken Wilson.
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11.20.16 Sunday Service: “Election Distress: Home for the Holidays.” Ken Wilson.
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11.13.16 Sunday Service: “Election Distress in the Company of Jesus.” Ken Wilson.
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11.6.16 Sunday Service: “Election Distress in the Company of Jeremiah.” Ken Wilson.
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OCTOBER
10.30.16 Sunday Service: “Connect & Renew—Week 6.” Emily Swan.
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10.23.16 Sunday Service: “Connect & Renew—Week 5.” Emily Swan.
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10.16.16 Sunday Service: “Connect & Renew—Week 4.” Ken Wilson.
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10.9.16 Sunday Service: “Connect & Renew—Week 3.” Ken Wilson.
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10.2.16 Sunday Service: “Connect & Renew—Week 2.” Emily Swan.
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SEPTEMBER
9.25.16 Sunday Service: “Connect & Renew—Week 1.” Ken Wilson.
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9.18.16 Sunday Service: “The Fourfold Path of Forgiveness—Week 4.” Ken Wilson.
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9.11.16 Sunday Service: “The Fourfold Path of Forgiveness—Week 3.” Emily Swan.
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9.4.16 Sunday Service: “The Fourfold Path of Forgiveness—Week 2.” Emily Swan.
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AUGUST
8.28.16 Sunday Service: “The Fourfold Path of Forgiveness—Week 1.” Ken Wilson.
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8.21.16 Sunday Service: “Beyond Envy, Rivalry, and Violence—Week 9.” Ken Wilson.
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8.14.16 Sunday Service: “Beyond Envy, Rivalry, and Violence—Week 8.” Emily Swan.
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8.7.16 Sunday Service: “Beyond Envy, Rivalry, and Violence—Week 7.” Ken Wilson.
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JULY
7.31.16 Sunday Service: “Beyond Envy, Rivalry, and Violence—Week 6.” Emily Swan.
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7.24.16 Sunday Service: “Beyond Envy, Rivalry, and Violence—Week 5.” Ken Wilson.
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7.17.16 Sunday Service: “Beyond Envy, Rivalry, and Violence—Week 4.” Emily Swan.
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7.10.16 Sunday Service: “Beyond Envy, Rivalry, and Violence—Week 3.” Emily Swan.
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7.3.16 Sunday Service: “Beyond Envy, Rivalry, and Violence—Week 2.” Ken Wilson.
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JUNE
6.26.16 Sunday Service: “Beyond Envy, Rivalry, and Violence—Week 1.” Ken Wilson.
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6.19.16 Sunday Service: “Integrity and Influence: Lessons from a Vagabond—Week 4.” Ken Wilson.
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6.12.16 Sunday Service: Guest Speaker Rev. Deborah Dean-Ware.
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6.5.16 Sunday Service: “Integrity and Influence: Lessons from a Vagabond—Week 3.” Emily Swan.
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MAY
5.29.16 Sunday Service: “Integrity and Influence: Lessons from a Vagabond—Week 2.”
Guest Speaker Hayden Carruth.
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5.22.16 Sunday Service: “Integrity and Influence: Lessons from a Vagabond—Week 1.” Emily Swan.
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5.15.16 Sunday Service: “Sunday of Service—Joint Service with St. Clare’s Episcopal Church.”
5.8.16 Sunday Service: “Loving Our Neighbors—Week 5.” Guest Speaker Rev. Rachel Brownson.
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5.1.16 Sunday Service: “Loving Our Neighbors—Week 4.” Emily Swan.
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APRIL
4.24.16 Sunday Service: “Loving Our Neighbors—Week 3.” Guest Speaker Vivek Sankaran.
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4.17.16 Sunday Service: “Loving Our Neighbors—Week 2.” Guest Speaker Austin Channing Brown.
4.10.16 Sunday Service: “Loving Our Neighbors—Week 1.” Emily Swan.
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4.3.16 Sunday Service: “Follow Up to Lenten Prayer Practices.” Emily Swan.
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MARCH
3.27.16 Sunday Service: “Easter Sunday.” Emily Swan.
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3.20.16 Sunday Service: “Lenten Sermon Series: Sola Jesus—Week 6.” Emily Swan.
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3.13.16 Sunday Service: “Lenten Sermon Series: Sola Jesus—Week 5.” Emily Swan.
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3.6.16 Sunday Service: “Lenten Sermon Series: Sola Jesus—Week 4.” Ken Wilson.
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FEBRUARY
2.28.16 Sunday Service: “Lenten Sermon Series: Sola Jesus—Week 3.” Ken Wilson.
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2.21.16 Sunday Service: “Lenten Sermon Series: Sola Jesus—Week 2.” Emily Swan.
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2.14.16 Sunday Service: “Lenten Sermon Series: Sola Jesus—Week 1.” Ken Wilson.
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2.7.16 Sunday Service: “Sola Jesus—Introduction.” Emily Swan.
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JANUARY
1.31.16 Sunday Service: “Bids and Responses to Bids.” Ken Wilson.
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1.24.16 Sunday Service: “Getting Over Ourselves: Visions of an Exiled Prophet—Week 4.” Emily Swan.
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1.17.16 Sunday Service: “Getting Over Ourselves: Visions of an Exiled Prophet—Week 3.” Cassie Brabbs.
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1.10.16 Sunday Service: “Getting Over Ourselves: Visions of an Exiled Prophet—Week 2.” Ken Wilson.
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1.3.16 Sunday Service: “Getting Over Ourselves: Visions of an Exiled Prophet—Week 1.” Ken Wilson.
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2015 Sunday Service, Notes, and Study Guide Archives
DECEMBER
12.27.15 Sunday Service: “Following the Star.” Emily Swan.
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12.20.15 Sunday Service: “Advent with Isaiah: Week 4.” Emily Swan.
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12.13.15 Sunday Service: “Advent with Isaiah: Week 3.” Ken Wilson.
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12.06.15 Sunday Service: “Advent with Isaiah: Week 2.” Emily Swan.
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NOVEMBER
11.29.15 Sunday Service: “Advent with Isaiah: Week 1.” Ken Wilson.
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11.22.15 Sunday Service: “Blue Ocean Faith Ann Arbor—Our First Year in Review,
and Looking Forward to 2016.” Emily Swan.
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11.15.15 Sunday Service: “Blue Ocean Faith Distinctives—Week 2: Third Way,
Ecumenical, and Joyful Engagement.” Ken Wilson.
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11.8.15 Sunday Service: “Blue Ocean Faith Distinctives—Week 1: Sola Jesus,
Centered Set, and Child-Like Faith.” Ken Wilson.
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11.1.15 Sunday Service: Special Guest Speaker, Adey Wassink,
lead pastor of Sanctuary Community Church in Iowa City.
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OCTOBER
10.25.15 Sunday Service: “Rising Strong—Week 3.” Ken Wilson.
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10.18.15 Sunday Service: “Rising Strong—Week 2.” Emily Swan.
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10.11.15 Sunday Service: Special Guest Speaker, Dr. David Gushee,
Leading Evangelical Ethicist and author of “Changing Our Mind.”
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10.4.15 Sunday Service: “Rising Strong—Week 1.” Emily Swan.
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SEPTEMBER
9.27.15 Sunday Service: “Personal Integrity: Connecting Our Whole Selves—
Week 5.” Ken Wilson.
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9.20.15 Sunday Service: “Personal Integrity: Connecting Our Whole Selves—
Week 4.” Ken Wilson.
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9.13.15 Sunday Service: “Personal Integrity: Connecting Our Whole Selves—
Week 3.” Emily Swan.
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9.6.15 Sunday Service: “Personal Integrity: Connecting Our Whole Selves—
Week 2.” Ken Wilson.
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AUGUST
8.30.15 Sunday Service: “Personal Integrity: Connecting Our Whole Selves—
Week 1.” Emily Swan.
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8.23.15 Sunday Service: “Faithful Love: The Story of Ruth—Week 3.” Ken Wilson.
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8.16.15 Sunday Service: “Faithful Love: The Story of Ruth—Week 2.” Emily Swan.
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8.9.15 Sunday Service: “Faithful Love: The Story of Ruth—Week 1.” Emily Swan.
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8.2.15 Sunday Service: “Consider the Birds: The Secrets of the Sparrow.” Ken Wilson.
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JULY
7.26.15 Sunday Service: “Consider the Birds: Cockadoodledon’t—
Roosters & Betrayal.” Emily Swan.
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7.19.15 Sunday Service: “Consider the Birds: Consider the Death Eaters.” Emily Swan.
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7.12.15 Sunday Service: “Consider the Birds: Father, Son, & Holy Pigeon.” Emily Swan.
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7.5.15 Sunday Service: “The Power of a Vulnerable Faith: Week Four.” Ken Wilson.
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JUNE
6.28.15 Sunday Service: “Charleston: What Our Madmen Tell Us
About Ourselves.” Ken Wilson.
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6.21.15 Sunday Service: “The Power of a Vulnerable Faith: Week Three.” Ken Wilson.
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6.14.15 Sunday Service: “The Power of a Vulnerable Faith: Week Two.” Emily Swan.
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6.7.15 Sunday Service: “The Power of a Vulnerable Faith: Week One.” Ken Wilson.
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MAY
5.31.15 Sunday Service: “Hello Leviticus: Week Six.” Rabbi Bob Levy.
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5.24.15 Sunday Service: “Hello Leviticus: Week Five.” Ken Wilson.
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5.17.15 Sunday Service: “Hello Leviticus: Week Four.” Ken Wilson.
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5.10.15 Sunday Service: “Hello Leviticus: Week Three.” Emily Swan.
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APRIL
4.26.15 Sunday Service: “Hello Leviticus: Moving the Kids Along
the Purity Spectrum.” Ken Wilson.
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4.19.15 Sunday Service: Introduction to “Hello Leviticus.” Emily Swan.
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4.12.15 Sunday Service: “Beyond the Suffering Free Gospel.” Ken Wilson.
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4.5.15 Sunday Service: “Easter Sunday: Resurrection Begins in the Dark.” Emily Swan.
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MARCH
3.29.15 Sunday Service: “Lenten Series Week Six (Palm Sunday) – 40 Days of Faith:
It’s All About Connection.” Ken Wilson.
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3.22.15 Sunday Service: “Lenten Series Week Five – 40 Days of Faith:
It’s All About Connection.” Emily Swan.
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3.15.15 Sunday Service: “Lenten Series Week Four – 40 Days of Faith:
It’s All About Connection.” Ken Wilson.
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3.8.15 Sunday Service: “Lenten Series Week Three – 40 Days of Faith:
It’s All About Connection.” Ken Wilson.
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3.1.15 Sunday Service: “Lenten Series Week Two – 40 Days of Faith:
It’s All About Connection.” Emily Swan.
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FEBRUARY
2.22.15 Sunday Service: “Lenten Series Week One – 40 Days of Faith:
It’s All About Connection.” Ken Wilson.
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2.15.15 Sunday Service: “Lenten Series Introduction – 40 Days of Faith:
It’s All About Connection.” Ken Wilson.
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2.8.15 Sunday Service: “The Great Banquet.” Emily Swan.
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2.1.15 Membership Series #5: “Jesus, The Hero’s Journey, Our Turn.” Ken Wilson.
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JANUARY
1.25.15 Membership Series #4: “Blue Ocean Spirituality.” Emily Swan.
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1.18.15 Membership Series #3: “Revival in the Secular West: Engaging
Secular Culture.” Emily Swan.
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1.11.15 Membership Series #2: “It’s All About Connection, to self, others,
the wide world, and God.” Ken Wilson.
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1.4.15 Membership Series #1: “A Church Waiting to Happen: Jesus, Spirit, Scripture,
Science, All-People Friendly,” Ken Wilson
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2014 Sunday Service Archives
DECEMBER
12.28.14 Video Available on request.
12.21.14 Video Available on request. “Disgrace: The Cost of Bringing Jesus into the World” Study Guide (pdf)
12.14.14 Video Available on request. “New Birth” Study Guide (pdf)
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