Bethany UCC

Interim Pastor Alaina wraps up our Beyond the Binary series with a sermon on Joseph's coat of blessing. We're finishing this series (for now) with the blessing of beyond the gender binary in the Bible with Joseph.

Ann Ridge provided an amazing sermon on the climate crisis for our first worship of July. Hellfire and brimstone: the state that people are living in right now. Hell and fire are here now. She reminds us that we are people of action. We’re people with responsibility. We’re able to take action.

Rev. Rebecca preached our third week of "Beyond the Binary" about the good happening in-between. In pastoral care class in grad school, a guest speaker talked about the ways people early in romantic relationships tend to project onto each other, to the extent that they miss some of what’s really there. If and when those relationships deepen, people often go through a painful but necessary pulling back, which allows the other to exist fully. He summed it up by saying that “everything good — play, music, conversation, sex — happens in the in-between.”

We had the AMAZING Johnny Buranosky as a guest preacher with us to continue our June series! In this sermon, Johnny is expanding beyond the binary of thinking we will walk only one path. Dolly Parton famously said “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

Interim Pastor Alaina kicked off our June series with a sermon about nourishment for body and soul. This Pride month we are going beyond the binary

Guest preacher and Bethany member in discernment, Xander King, provides our next sermon in the weirdest stories of the Bible series! With Numbers 25 as the base, it's just a scriptural mess but it could be an interesting exploration of how the "weird" and disturbing stories in the Bible are often the result of historical tension in the story itself. Tune in to hear!

Interim Pastor Alaina continues our series by addressing how we interpret the story of the blind man in Mark 8. It's often interpreted to be only about healing and therefore miss the vision of the blind man. Listen as she uplifts a different understanding of disability and interprets this message in a non-ablest light.

Rev. Rebecca kicks off our May series with the weird, weirder, and weirdest stories of the Bible. This time, we're covering the she-bears and why they are in 2 Kings. Tune in all month for the wackiest stories and most unusual of characters!

Rev Rebecca continues "Feast Days" with remembering through feasts. Freezing wedding cake, backpacking food, and final meals as well as what it means to re-constitute feasts.