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Seekers Church Talk
Adam Greene
January 19, 2025
Third Sunday in Epiphany
So I haven’t given too many talks like this. And I tend to not want to do it reading. And so what’s going to come out? I’m not entirely sure, but there’s a lot of kind of different things floating around.
I have very present that we’re having an inauguration tomorrow. And incidentally, I spoke for Eighth Day, the day just before the election. So it seems like I’ve had the opportunity to be in a little bit of a crucible when giving these talks, and from a certain point of view, I could say that there’s a lot of complexity, there’s a lot of different things that I want to to say, but in a certain way, it feels like that complexity is a little bit of an illusion, in the sense that … I had an experience last night like, I’m like waiting for it to sort of click right? “What am I going to talk about?” And I’m not even sure how I’m going to put it into words. But the experience was: it was simple. There was a kind of a deep love which I recognized that has always been there. A lot of dreams were coming back to me that I realized I had had. And it was almost like, you know, a lock. When you put a key into a lock, there’s a lot of different gears—right?—in the lock sometimes, and it’s just sort of a matter of turning it and it opens. That is kind of what happened to me last night. And I guess, you know, now I’ll sort of get into some particular details and so see where we go with this.
The Blessing
Brenda Seat
January 12, 2025
Second Sunday in Epiphany
We have an interesting set of texts to work with this morning:
Over the past weeks of Advent and through to this Second Sunday in Epiphany, I have been noticing how many blessings have appeared in our lection readings.
We have heard the blessing of Hagar, of Mary, of Abraham and Sarah, Elizabeth’s blessing of Mary when she comes to visit; the blessing of Hannah, Mary blessing God in the Magnificat,
Home by Another Way
Marjory Bankson
January 5, 2025
Epiphany Celebrated
Text: Matthew 2:1-12
Today we celebrate Epiphany with the story of three wise men who came with their gifts to honor a new king of the Jews. It’s a simple story, perfect for the finale of a Christmas pageant.
My favorite image of Epiphany is this carving of a fish which I bought from a street vendor in Guatemala. It shows three well-dressed women with increasingly-large halos as they approach a gold-domed church and a very bright star overhead. On the other side, common people carry baskets of food toward the same gold-domed church. I love the mixture of messages here. The wise women drew me in and at least the ordinary folk are on the same fish, if not the same side.
Hope for What we Cannot Yet See
Deborah Sokolove
December 29, 2024
Christmastide
For most of the world, Christmas is over. All the presents have been opened, and whether we are delighted or disappointed by the gifts we have or have not received, many of us feel a kind of let-down. After all the tidings of comfort and joy, after all the familiar feasting of Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, the twelve days of Christmastide seem to fall a little flat. Here on the altar, the Christ child is in the manger and the wise men are still making their way from the East to Bethlehem, but the angels and shepherds seem to have fallen silent. We struggle to keep celebrating while all around us, the news is just as bad as ever. If the savior whose advent we longed for has really come, why does everything seem just like it did before the big day?
Mothers of the Promise
Elizabeth Gelfeld
December 22, 2024
Fourth Sunday of Advent
God of Grace,
Appear to us today.
Come, Lord Jesus.
We long for peace.
We long for love.
We rise each day in hope.
We wait for you.
You are the bringer of hope.
You are the bringer of love.
You are peace.
Come to us, Lord Jesus.
Amen
During this Advent season our scripture readings have come from a different lectionary from the Revised Common Lectionary, which we generally use. The lectionary we’ve been using for these four weeks is titled A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church, compiled by the Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney, who is a Black woman, though you might not guess that from her first name, Wil.