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Queer Power in the Christmas Story
sermon by Pastor Rachael Weasley November 2023 Luke 1:39-56 As you move through the Advent season, take a queer lens with you and find God creating power on the margins throughout the Christmas story. Our Mysterious Beloved Divine, grieving and inflaming the hearts of those working for justice, is constantly bringing forth new life. May each of us find our ways to be a part of it! |
Note: I was wrong about shepherds! While they aren't in the highest social classes, they are not unclean according to Hebrew custom of that time. Thanks for the fact check, E.!
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Exodus, Climate Change, and Process Theology!
sermon by Pastor Rachael Weasley October 2023 Exodus 17:1-7 & Psalm 95:1-7 Sometimes facing climate change can feel like a dead-end. But ours is a living God who will move with us through any version of the future, infinitely creative! Process Theology and Adrienne Marie Brown's book Emergent Strategies: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds help us face climate change with the resiliency and imagination that we need to join the cooperative and intersectional work of climate justice. |
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Palm Sunday as Protest
a sermon by Caly McCarthy at Cleveland Park Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, DC April 2nd 2023 A CoH community member preaches at her local congregation about empire and Caesar, rest as revolution, and Palm Sunday as Jesus staging anti-imperial political theater! |
Watch sermon video here:
https://youtu.be/EgNv9r9A_f4?t=1449
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"Mary the Tower"
sermon by Pastor Rachael Weasley March 2023 John 11:1-27 There is new scholarship about ancient manuscripts of the gospel of John, showing Mary Magdalene to be potentially a much more important and powerful figure than church traditions have let on. Let us follow Holy Wisdom in uncovering and telling the stories we need, and following Her call to be "as much ourselves as is possible"! Inspired by research and music video by Elizabeth Schrader, and Diana Butler Bass's work here. |
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"Queerly Advent"
sermon by Pastor Rachael Weasley December 2022 Luke 1:5-56 In the Christmas story, God is active at the margins, honoring women of color and silencing men of authority. Say yes like Mary, to God's queer invitations. I'm grateful to these brilliant thinkers whose ideas which contributed so much to this sermon: *Erma Kim Hackett- I recommend her blog Feisty Thoughts: (https://feistythoughts.com/category/feisty-women/ *Brian G Murphy, at QueerTheology.com |
We had to trim the beginning of the video, so it starts kind of abruptly. Here you can read the missing beginning words and enjoy the full sermon transcript!
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A Moment With Moss
a short video by Pastor Rachael, shared in the October 2022 newsletter Inspired by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer's book Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses |
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Jory Mickelson, seminarian
August 1, 2022 "No Longer Strangers" Ephesians 2:14-22 It's still not always safe to be queer in the USA, but we are already whole and holy in God's eyes. Including a town-coming-together story. |
Sorry, we forgot to hit "record" on a couple sermons this spring!
The written versions are excellent, though. Enjoy!
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Joanne Gallardo, conference minister
July 11, 2022 "Adopted into a Queer Family" Ruth 1:6-18 There is no one or right way to be family, and the Bible is God’s really long memoir that includes all different ways to be in relationship with one another... Allow yourself to be a person adopted into a queer family. Honor your own journey. |
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Rachael Weasley, Community of Hope's pastor
June 6, 2022 "God's invitations have a Yes flavor" Luke 24:1-42 Where are we encountering resurrection in our lives, and where should our church go from here? Ends with a reflection time for a gratitude practice. |
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