Author: Ken Burton

Kolya Braun-Greiner

February 23, 2025

Seventh Sunday After Epiphany

When I read that “love your enemies” was the gospel message for this week, I thought, “Oh my God, help me with this one.”

Richard Rohr’s reflections on the metaphor of the Cosmic Egg caught my imagination this week. Within this “Egg” are the nested domes of my story, our story, and other stories, and the fourth being the big story of cosmic universe story. His metaphor of the spheres of being, nesting within one another inspired me to frame my sermon along similar lines as a way of looking at 3 contexts for the transforming power of courageous love in troubling times: Us – Them – and We.…

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Larry Rawlings

February 16, 2025

Sixth Sunday in Epiphany

Black History Month begins in Chicago during the summer of 1915 when Carter G. Woodson traveled from Washington, D.C. to participate in a national celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of emancipation sponsored by the state of Illinois. Thousands of African Americans travelled from across the country to see exhibits highlighting the progress their people had made since the destruction of slavery. An overflow crowd of six to twelve thousand waited outside for their turn to view the exhibits. Inspired by the three-week celebration, Woodson decided to form an organization to promote the scientific study of black life and history saying “We are going back to that beautiful history and it is going to inspire us to greater achievements.”…

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Paul Holmes

February 9, 2025

Fifth Sunday After Epiphany

Luke 5:1-11

They were bone tired.  They had worked all night and had caught almost nothing, and then along came this guy, who wasn’t even a fisherman, and he urged them to again let down their nets.  Even though they knew it was totally futile, these future disciples did as Jesus asked, and were rewarded with more fish than their nets could hold.…

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Mary Mehala

February 2, 2025

Fourth Sunday After Epiphany

 Good morning, Seekers. This was a tough week I tell you. I am looking forward to taking David and Marji’s class because in these deeply troubling times my spirit is so grieved, that I need help to see Jesus, and to grow in my understanding of the spirit of God. If I am going to remain faithful to the end and trust God in all things, I need help, because like Daniel I want to stand and walk in the fire, and like Daniel I cannot walk alone.…

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