Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost • September 24, 2017 Pastor Elyse Ambrose Sacred Text – An Excerpt from Alice Walker’s The Color Purple Listen, God love everything…
When I think about wilderness, I now think of Georgia. And I think of the zombie apocalypse. One of my favorite shows is “The Walking…
As a clergy person in the United Methodist Church, I no longer have membership in any local church. So my “church” becomes my annual conference….
As we sit on the cusp of the high holy days of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter, I am thinking about the woman who…
I preached the following sermon at Yale Divinity School’s Lunar New Year worship service at Marquand Chapel on January 31, 2014. “Gōngxǐ Fācái!” A Mandarin…
The first Sunday after Three Kings is always Baptism of the Lord, when we remember the day Jesus walked into the waters with John the…
There are a few lines from the book of Jeremiah that we sometimes read at Advent. They go like this: The days are surely coming,…
I was a really scared little kid. The time of the day that was always most terrifying for me was bedtime. I hated going to…
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? I Corinthians 3:16 Yesterday morning, I read a blog…
I have found that getting pregnant is in many ways an incredibly isolating experience. For several months, you are going through one of the most…
