2023
Consider the Spirit
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
As we consider the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost today, I want to start by traveling back in time – way back for us – and way back […]
God and Country?
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
I recently completed a four week online class through Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. It was called Resisting Christian Nationalism with the gospel of peace. Fifty people in the US, Canada, […]
Life to the Full
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
“Ehhhh wooly wooly!!” “Ehh wooly wooly!!” Eh wooly wooly is the call that used to ring forth from the mouths of shepherds at Shepherd’s Field farm in Philippi West Virginia […]
Why Are You Weeping?
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Christ is Risen, Christ is Risen indeed. Here we are. It’s Easter; we made it through lent – and our journey with questions is not over. In our story today, […]
Nourishing Questions: Who Gets to Belong?
Today we continue our Lenten journey of nourishing questions. What is a “nourishing” question? In my imagination, I like to think of questions in connection with the life cycle of […]
Nourishing Questions: What is Living Water?
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
We are claiming the questions in this lenten season: Nourishing Questions. Here are some of the questions in this story from John 4: “How is it that you, a Jew, […]
Nourishing Questions and the Reign of God
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Nicodemus comes to Jesus in the night, presumably because he has questions, questions about Jesus, questions for Jesus. He comes under cover of darkness which means these questions unnerve Nicodemus, […]
Nourishing Questions: Curiosity & Discernment
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
Today we mark the first Sunday in Lent. Lent being the 40 day period that leads up to Easter Sunday. It is a season that is an echo, or reflection, […]
Enlightening
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Two weeks ago, on Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday, we read from the prophet Isaiah, “The people walking in darkness are seeing a brilliant light.” And here we have light again, […]
Anabaptist Light/Anabaptist Slant: World Anabaptist Fellowship Sunday
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant,” Emily Dickinson reminds us. That’s how a good story is told, gradually, with perspective, and context and details that may not be […]