2025
Hoping and Dreaming
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Welcome to advent 1, the week that we focus on hope. We dream of a new world with Isaiah – and wonder where or how there is any hope at […]
Not Done Yet
Speaker: Dave Kraybill
When I was about four years old, one summer day I was in the shop on our family farm, hammering away on something with fierce determination. The door was open […]
The Word Comes To …
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Jeremiah is a strange bird. God’s word comes to him. He hears voices. He has visions. He makes bizarre choices. Jeremiah’s scribe, Baruch, keeps track of the strange experiences and […]
Honest Prayer
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Most mornings, I try to start my day with prayers of gratitude. As I lay in bed and stretch, I look out the window and give thanks: the sky, clouds, […]
Free
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
The Mennonite writer, Miriam Toews, has a short story in the most recent New Yorker, called “Something has come to Light.” It reminds me a little bit of the passage […]
When I Survey
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
A few years ago at an interfaith event, a Buddhist person asked me what Mennonites believe about suffering. I was at a loss. For Buddhists, understanding suffering, is central to […]
Bargaining with God
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
The conversation we just heard between God and Abraham occurs between two stories that may be more familiar. The beginning of chapter 18 is the visit of three strangers to […]
Peace to this House
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
As a child growing up in small town Oregon, we were not a very political or activist family, though we did have a decal on our front plate glass window. […]
Witness & Testify
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
I find stories like this in the Biblical text a bit scratchy. I’m never quite sure how I feel about the prevalence of demon possession and exorcisms in the life […]
Lamentations
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
What a time in the world it is. Our hearts are broken by the injustice and cruelty that we see and hear about every day. Our minds are preoccupied and […]