By Rev. Kelsey Beebe
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Join Pastor Kelsey and Rev. Angela Tyler-Williams for a timely and important conversation about how our faith can guide our vote, particularly when it comes to values around Reproductive Justice.
About SACReD:
SACReD (SACReD Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Dignity) is a national alliance of multiracial, multifaith, multiethnic, mixed gender and sexual identity religious leaders, congregations, movement organizations, activists, academics, and directly impacted communities collaborating to advance Reproductive Justice through congregational education, culture change, community building, and direct service.
Join SACReD for their Woven Together educational series: https://www.sacreddignity.org/2024/08/24/woven-together-registration-open/
Learn more about Reproductive Justice here: http://www.sistersong.net/
A note about Womanism:
Womanism is a concept created by Alice Walker: The womanish girl exhibits willful, courageous, and outrageous behavior that is considered to be beyond the scope of societal norms. A woman who loves other women, sexually and/or nonsexually. Appreciates and prefers women's culture, women's emotional flexibility ... and women's strength. ... Committed to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female. Not a separatist, except periodically, for health ... Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit ... Loves struggle. Loves the folk. Loves herself. Regardless. Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
About Angela
Angela Tyler-Williams (She/Her) is proud to serve as the Co-Executive Director for Movement Building at SACReD. Angela is a queer pastor ordained by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) into her call to engage people of faith to speak publicly and politically in support of reproductive health, rights, and justice and LGBTQIA+ equality. Angela holds a Master of Divinity from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. The Center for American Progress named Angela as one of the 22 Faith Leaders to Watch in 2022. Angela learned about faith-based community organizing and building people power to create positive social change from the Industrial Areas Foundation. In her free time, Angela volunteers as a clergy counselor with Faith Aloud Talkline. She finds life in experiencing music, listening to podcasts, exploring creation, and engaging in theological discussions that go off the beaten path.
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Recently, Kelsey had the opportunity to preach at First Congregational Church of Bellingham and when the Pastor told her what the scripture would be, she almost backed out.
It was the story of Passover (Exodus 12 and 13), when Moses leads his people out of slavery into freedom. It's a powerful, poignant story, but it also includes the gruesome and troubling 10th plague to hit Egypt: the killing of all the first-born children and animals.
While she doesn't focus primarily on that aspect of the story, Kelsey offers a perspective from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks that changed how she understood God's actions.
The bulk of the sermon, shared in today's episode, focuses on how God is with us, preparing us for the difficult journeys we face in life - often with very specific (and loving) instructions.
You can read more of Kelsey's thoughts on the 10th plague in Exodus 12 here.
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Close out your September and move into October with this blessing.
“Humanity was made through the outpouring of love within God. One doesn’t create out of the outpouring of love something bad or unbeautiful.” - Bridget Black
If human beings are made in the image of God, then how can we understand humans as instrinsically bad? Instead, from the beginning, God creates and calls humanity good. In this transformative conversation, spiritual director and theologian Bridget Black dives into what it means to be a human being made in God's image, what it means to bear that image in the world, and how we can experience God and the beauty of God more fully in this world.
About Bridget
Bridget (she/her) is a perpetual wonderer and lover of people. She is constantly seeking the deeper things of life and is fascinated by and interested in who people are and the formative narratives of their lives. She is a Certified Spiritual Director and Spiritual Theologian at Soul Kin Community, where she helps people and communities heal and grow in their personal and spiritual lives, by exploring their inner world and story while learning to notice the presence and movement of God in and around them.
Learn more and connect with Bridget at Soul Kin Community or on Instagram @thebridgetblack.
Today’s episode is sponsored by
Jeff Fulmer’s new novel, American Prophet.
American Prophet takes a fresh look at some of the problems facing America today, such as gun violence, race relations, and climate change. “These are moral isssues that will keep plaguing us until we deal them as a society,” author, Jeff Fulmer said. “People of faith, especially Christians, could be a leading light. Unfortunately, many are silent, or even work against positive change. Fulmer recognizes that not all Christians will agree with the message in the book. “A prophet is supposed to challenge people. That’s the job.”
American Prophet is on sale on Amazon, Audible, and Apple Books. Just look for American Prophet by Jeff Fulmer. There is more information about the author and the books at www.jefffulmer.com.
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“All of us are God’s images on earth - we are to be God’s representatives of power.”
It’s not a bold statement to say that people in power often abuse it. We see corruption of power in leadership in all facets of society: politics, school administrations, businesses both large and small, churches, and even inside homes. But what if we approached leadership in a way that is more aligned with the God who leads us?
Ann Garrido (she/her), an expert in Christian leadership, invites us to find a new way forward. She encourages us to look closely at the model God sets before us: one that is about power with instead of power over. Doing so will transform us as leaders.
About Ann
Dr. Ann Garrido is associate professor at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri and author of the popular Redeeming series for Christian leaders from Ave Maria Press. You can find out more about Ann at anngarrido.com and be sure to check out her latest book, Redeeming Power: Using the Gift As God Intended.*
*this is an affiliate link; when you purchase using this link, it costs nothing extra for you, but a small percentage of your purchase goes to support this ministry.
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As requested, we are offering a series of short sermons that will be posted once a month. They're less sermon and more pastor Kelsey reflecting on scripture alongside to, inviting us all to explore God's word together.
Today we're getting curious about Matthew 14:22-33, when Jesus walks on water and invites Peter to do the same. What could the invitation to all of us be a we hear this story? What might God be saying to you?
Let's find out together!
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After hearing from several parents a request for podcast recommendations for progressive faith related podcasts, Rev. Lydia Posselt (she/her) decided to take matters into her own hands. Having found very little out there that fit the need, Lydia started Faith, Hope, & LOL: A Parenting and Faith Podcast. In today's episode, she talks with Kelsey about why this need is so important to fill, why the gap exists, and what support parents are asking for in talking with kids about faith.
You can find Faith, Hope, & LOL anywhere you listen to podcasts!
About Lydia
Pastor Lydia Posselt is the Associate Pastor for Evangelism and Mission at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Vienna, Virginia, just outside of Washington DC. She is originally from Wisconsin and has been sojourning on the East Coast for over a decade. She loves learning, being creative and trying new things, reading novels, binge-watching baking shows, drinking coffee, and hanging out in the outdoors with her family.
Her new and very irregular podcast Faith, Hope and LOL: a Parenting and Faith Podcast, can be found on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/51OhqEyGAQPrrML8YoEcO6?si=d7d868573d9c4e13&nd=1&dlsi=dfb335b2b42c4b35
and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faith-hope-and-lol-a-parenting-and-faith-podcast/id1760400055
It can also be found on her congregations's website: https://elcvienna.org/podcast/
Invested Faith
Invested Faith is a non-profit fund supported by congregations and religious institutions who want to support the work of God beyond the church walls. With unrestricted grants, Invested Faith funds and resources faith-rooted entrepreneurs making positive change in their communities.
To learn more, go to InvestedFaith.org
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Driven by a desire to create space for people to be empowered to have agency over their spiritual lives, Rabbi Brian created Religion Outside the Box - a community of people of all walks of life. He encourages a different way of thinking about religion, where there are "few answers" and "many questions." In today's conversation, we talk about his newest work, the book, "A Highly Unorthodox Gospel: A Modern Guide to Compassion, Kindness, and Love for Others and Self."
About Rabbi Brian
Rabbi Brian Zachary Mayer (rB) doesn’t rabbi normally. He left synagogue, mainstream Judaism to teach math to inner-city high school students and now runs ROTB.org, a worldwide, internet congregation of over 3,000 members. rB enjoys constructing small bios, making stained glass lamps, and gaining mastery on the French horn. They live in Portland, Oregon, have written Rabbi Brian’s Highly Unorthodox Gospel an as of yet unpublished gospel, and are thinking a lot about pronouns these days.
Invested Faith
Invested Faith is a non-profit fund supported by congregations and religious institutions who want to support the work of God beyond the church walls. With unrestricted grants, Invested Faith funds and resources faith-rooted entrepreneurs making positive change in their communities.
To learn more, go to InvestedFaith.org
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A blessing as we dive into September.
"I hope my words invite children to find thesmevles in those [Bible] stories and to wonder about our great God and their whole part in this world. My whole job as a writer is to invite children into that arena of wonder." - Glenys Nellist
Throughout our faith’s history, our scriptures have been passed down through oral storytelling. The Bible is made up of stories handed down generation to generation, and it is through these stories that we have come to know who God is and what God is like. Children’s author, Glenys Nellist, has harnessed the power of storytelling to invite children into God’s great story. Her new book, Gathered at the Table, welcomes children to engage their holy imagination and find themselves at the table, gathered with all of God’s beloved, to experience this amazing, mysterious sacrament.
About Glenys
Glenys Nellist (she/her) was born and raised in a little village in northern England. The author of multiple award-winning children’s books, including the bestselling ‘Twas the Evening of Christmas, The Wonder That is You, and five popular series: Love Letters from God, Snuggle Time, ‘Twas, Good News and Little Mole, her writing reflects a deep passion for helping children discover joy and hope in the world. Glenys lives in Michigan with her husband, David.
Invested Faith
Invested Faith is a non-profit fund supported by congregations and religious institutions who want to support the work of God beyond the church walls. With unrestricted grants, Invested Faith funds and resources faith-rooted entrepreneurs making positive change in their communities.
To learn more, go to InvestedFaith.org
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