REVERB, APRIL CABALLERO: FEAST OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE
I want to open this up by saying that I do not have any formal training in theology or Christian history. So what I am going to share with you is purely speculation, and isn’t grounded in anything that...
View ArticleREVERB, NATALIA PIERSON: PROPER 12A
The Lessons I think I can only remember one incident where I wanted to cause physical harm to someone while in a church. In college, I attended a small, conservative, southern Baptist church. We were...
View ArticleREVERB, ERIN QUARTERMAN: ADVENT 3B
The Lessons Often it is difficult to approach a story you know so well from a different perspective. I grew up with these stories about Mary and Jesus. In some ways it is straightforward for me to...
View ArticleREVERB, ELLIOT HUEMANN: THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER
The Lessons Witnessing Together Today’s Gospel text holds a small sentence that I’ve easily overlooked before. “You are witness of these things,” Jesus says. This is an especially easy verse for me to...
View ArticleREVERB, KERRI GIBBARD KLINE: PRIDE SUNDAY
Happy Pride, Everyone! Two years ago, on June 12, 2016, 49 members of the queer and trans community, the majority of whom were Latinx folks and people of color, were murdered on their own turf, inside...
View ArticleREVERB, KATHERINE GRAYBUCK: ST. FRANCIS & ST. CLARE
Welcome to the feast of St Francis and St Clare. You know, this community has a long history of celebrating St Francis, it’s come to be a regular occurrence, with a blessing of the animals or by...
View ArticleREVERB, CHARLIE SHIN: PROPER 25B
The Lessons: Job 42:1-6, 10-17; Mark 10:46-52 (part of a series on Holy Women) Thank you, Katherine, and Church, for inviting to deliver the reverb today. It’s a huge pleasure to be part of this season...
View ArticleREVERB, BRANDON HOFF: AN APOCALYPTIC POPULOUS
The Lessons: Daniel 12:1-3; 1 Samuel 2:1-10; Mark 13:1-8 Not long ago Ivar (our pastor) referred to COTA in a rap as a ”non-apocalyptic populous.” I certainly don’t mean any disrespect to his rapping...
View ArticleREVERB, APRIL CABALLERO: ADVENT 1C
The Lessons: 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13; Luke 21:25-36 In the 2010 film, “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” Screen Writer and Director Werner Herzog takes an expedition into the nearly inaccessible Chauvet Cave...
View ArticleREVERB, EILEEN JIMENEZ: EPIPHANY 1C
The Lessons: Isaiah 43:1-7; Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Today, I wanted to share some thoughts and reflections that came to mind when I read the Isaiah passage. I think that for a lot of people, passages like...
View ArticleREVERB, EMILY WILLARD: LENT 3C
The Gospel: Luke 13:1-9 Today is a really special day. It is the first ever official feast day of St. Oscar Romero of El Salvador. He was canonized in the catholic church as a saint this past October,...
View ArticleREVERB, IVAR HILLESLAND: RISE/EASTER 2019
Why do you look for the living among the dead? That question, seems to stand straight up out of the sacred scripture to speak to me what so often desires to be said. Why do I keep seeking and seeking …...
View ArticleREVERB, KATHERINE GRAYBUCK: DAY OF PENTECOST 2019
The Lessons: Acts 2:1-28, John 14: 8-17 [25-27] The Spirit shows up in community. In the Pentecost story, the miracle is that the speakers were able to speak in a language understood to each in their...
View ArticleREVERB, JOHN VERNON: PROPER 7C
The Lessons: Acts 16:9-15, Luke 8:26-39 I want to begin by recognizing a certain amount of power that I bring into the room as a heterosexual man standing behind the podium during pride month. During...
View ArticleREVERB, NATALIA PIERSON: PROPER 12C
The Lessons: Galatians 3:23-4:7, Luke 11:1-13 A friend who is a UU minister mentioned once in conversation some advice she received from a mentor. “You should preach from your scars, not your wounds.”...
View ArticleREVERB, ERIN QUARTERMAN: ALL SAINTS’
The Lessons Today, as the days are growing noticeably shorter, and the temperature drops, and the trees finish shedding their leaves, it seems fitting that our tradition practices a communal grieving....
View ArticleREVERB, MATT QUARTERMAN: CHRIST THE QUEEN
From our Christ the Queen liturgy: Christ the King is the traditional final festival of the Christian calendar, and this year we’re going out with a bang: a musical, QUEEN-inspired service of worship...
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