by Stephen Phelps | Aug 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Listen to Audio Download PDF Texts on Sunday, August 24, 2025 Ezekiel 37:1-14; Luke 1:26-38 If the title of our sermon seems for some to affirm the obvious, that religion and God all comes to nothing—too bad the title didn’t go viral; even more might have come....
by Stephen Phelps | Apr 8, 2024 | America, democracy, hope, love, nonviolence, spiritual community, spiritual practice
Link to a YouTube video of the scripture readings and sermon Download PDF Texts on Sunday, April 7, 2024 Psalm 133; John 20: 19-31; Acts 4: 32-35 W ell! And you’d heard it said that the communists were bad. That first church could have shared some notes...
by Stephen Phelps | Nov 13, 2022 | America, climate change, criminal justice, democracy, economic justice, environment, justice, militarism, racism, spiritual practice, transformation
Link to the video of the whole worship celebration. The sermon starts at 31:50 https://s3.amazonaws.com/monkdev.ysl.23635/streams/398630/mp4/playlist_1_1080.mp4 Link to audio of just the sermon Download PDF Texts on Sunday, November 13, 2022Isaiah 65:17-25 and Matthew...
by Stephen Phelps | Jul 11, 2021 | America, democracy, economic justice, environment, evil, history, hope, inequality, justice, mass incarceratiom, militarism, race, racism, relinquishment, salvation, social justice, spiritual community, transformation
Download a PDF of this sermon Amos 7:7-15 • Acts 15:6-12 In 2008, a fragment of a sermon by Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ got clipped into the news cycle for some days. To the shock and awe of millions, that preacher, who was pastor...
by Stephen Phelps | Nov 29, 2020 | freedom, hope, love, relinquishment, spiritual community, transformation, womens rights
Download a PDF of the sermon text Genesis 38: 6-26; Mark 13: 33-37 What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. –Friedrich Nietzsche The story of Tamar and Judah is by no means a traditional reading for Advent One. We do have here,...
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