Seekers recognizes that any member of the community may be called upon by God to give us the Word, and thus we have an open pulpit with a different preacher each week. Sermons preached at Seekers, as well as sermons preached by Seekers at other churches or events, are posted here, beginning with the most recent.
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Marjory Zoet Bankson: The Egg Turned Red
March 30, 1997
Mary traveled with the disciples, supporting them out of her means. The church has long trashed Mary Magdalene, assumed that a woman could have no “means” excepts as a prostitute, but that doesn’t fit the facts. She was more likely a patrician daughter who had inherited money and position because there were no brothers. She brought financial support and good connections to the little band of faithful students. She gave out of gratitude because Jesus’ divine power was real for her.
Deborah Sokolove: Setting Our Faces Like Flint
March 23, 1997
Like Jesus, as he turned toward the final days, we are setting our faces like flint, wishing that this cup would pass from us, and knowing that it will not. But, unlike Jesus, we are not being crucified. Our dying to our old selves is neither sudden nor violent. We have been given the grace of time to prepare ourselves, to say what needs to be said, to do what needs to be done.
Pat Conover: Coming Out Christian
March 16, 1997
Psychiatrists and preachers tried to put people like me back in the bottle. They hid us away in the back wards when we were healthier than our oppressors were. They fried our brains with electricity and chemicals to make us docile. Psychiatrists said they were just trying to help us adjust to a Judeo-Christian society. Preachers said we were sinful and turned us over to the clinicians to be cured. This awful oppression began to turn around for gays and lesbians in 1973 when the voices of psychiatry and psychology said homosexuals were not sick. It has to happen for transgender people now.
David W. Lloyd: Snakebite and Healing
March 09, 1997
What God tells Moses to do is to make a snake of bronze and erect it on a standard so that whoever had been bitten and looked at it would be healed. How extraordinary! I have been thinking that it’s like a variation of curing a hangover by having a hair of the tail of the dog that bit you. In another sense, it isn’t extraordinary at all.
Jeanne Marcus: Party On!
February 23, 1997
An Absolutely Fabulous Big Creation Gala, where everything and everyone — sandpipers to sand sharks to loan sharks — is an object of divine delight; every duck, every pimento and every one of us is exactly what God had in mind. And the party keeps on, with God always toying around, full of wacky new ideas, morphing this into that, and rearranging the pieces. And every one just exactly what God had in mind.