Rev. Parker

Scripture: Genesis 9:8-17After the flood, God makes a promise (and a rainbow) of protection over all creation. Can we, as part of that creation take up that promise for each other, and for all the earth?

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10Ash Wednesday invites us into Lent, not as a self-improvement plan, but as witness to how God draws near to us as we are… and how that grace still transforms us. We are dust, we say this night… but we are also God’s.

Scripture: Mark 1:29-39Jesus brings healing home. Is this a troubling story in which God “cures” certain people, and not others? Or is this an invitation to think about the richness of healing, and how we can offer it to one another, and share it with the wider world?

Scripture: Mark 1:21-28As Jesus teaches in a holy gathering, he is met by an unholy spirit which has bound up a man. How often are we caught up in debates about what or who belongs where… when the deeper and more pressing question is, “What is the healing that is required?” For individuals? For the … Read more

Scripture: Psalm 62:5-12The Psalmist tells us of God’s promises heard twice: in words and in silence. How can we participate in God’s call to be present and to care for others when they are in those wordless and silent places of grief and change?