Showing Up for God
March 31, 2024
Church of the Servant
Easter Sunday - Year B
Mark 16:1-8
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Lent: The Season of Listening
February 18, 2024
Church of the Servant
1st Sunday in Lent
Psalm 25:1-9; Mark 1:9-15
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Sources:
Anderson, Luleen S. Under The Covers: Discovering the Crazy Quilt of Life, 2017. Kindle edition. Location 62.
Meeks, Catherine. A Quilted Life: Reflections of a Sharecropper’s Daughter, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI (2024), xii-xiii.
Plummer, Don. “Dr. Catherine Meeks: A Lifetime of Working for Racial Healing,” June 6, 2023. Diocese of Atlanta.https://episcopalatlanta.org/news/catherine-meeks-lifetime/ Accessed: Feb. 17, 2024.
A ‘Yep, I Can’ Spirit
June 25, 2023
Church of the Servant
4th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 7 - Year A Matthew 10:24-39; Romans 6:1b-11 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon (The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Sources:
- “On Gustavo’s Farm”, Dorsey Barger and Gustavo HausBar, HausBar Farm Publishing, Austin:2018.
Lavender Love
June 11, 2023
Church of the Servant
2nd Sunday after Pentecost Proper 5 - Year A Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon (The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Pride Houston Chorus singing “Love Don’t Need a Reason” https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwood.773/videos/215547967975595
Sources:
- “The Lavender Song”, 1920 Music by Mischa Spoliansky. English lyrics by Jeremy Lawrence based on the original German lyrics by Kurt Schwabach.
- John Broich, “How the Nazis destroyed the first gay rights movement,” July 4, 2017, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/how-the-nazis-destroyed-the-first-gay-rights-movement-80354, Accessed: June 8, 2023.
- Terry Gross & Robert Beachy, “Between World Wars, Gay Culture Flourished In Berlin,” December 17, 2014, Fresh Air on NPR. https://www.npr.org/2014/12/17/371424790/between-world-wars-gay-culture-flourished-in-berlin, Accessed: June 8, 2023.
- Charles M. Blow, “Yes, We’re in an L.G.B.T.Q. State of Emergency”, New York Times, June 7, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/opinion/pride-lgbtq-laws.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare. Accessed June 8, 2023.
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