Celebrating Emmanuel’s 10 year anniversary of being an Open & Affirming Congregation A Prayer of Queer Thanksgiving by Rev. Micah Bucey I sing praises to this little boy, no more than seven or eight, Who
Holy Moses! If you think today’s Scripture reading was long, imagine how long it will take me to unravel it all for you. Obviously, I won’t be able to do more than point us to
These are the words of God, for us, God’s people. They are true in the stories they tell, even if they didn’t happen. Because who doesn’t know a story of siblings who didn’t handle the
While tradition tells us that Moses wrote the first 5 books of the bible, scholarship assumes that Moses lived 12,000 years before the beginning of writing in the Middle East. What Biblical scholars think happen
Genesis is the true story of the creation of the universe, even if it didn’t happen like it says. It was written and passed down as story in temples and sacred places, around fires and
It has happened that throughout time, when people have time, people have stopped and looked at the world around them and thought, we can do better. They saw a problem and then imagined what the
Well, here we are again and the text doesn’t get any easier. My preaching professor suggests that we start to craft a sermon we start by looking at what God is doing in the text.
We have gotten to the bit of revelation that you probably recognize. This part of the Revelation story is set up for, is perfect for creative interpretations, for imagination, for storytelling, for images, for fan
I have always been a reader. As a younger person with free time, reading opened up worlds to me and it gave way for something I wasn’t always great at--imagination. I crossed the bridge to
When I was in college I went with a friend, to one of her friend’s place to watch the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When we got there I noticed that this person
