Because You Loved: A Sermon on John 17:24 for Northampton Ecumenical Pride 2025

“You begin to do it to yourself. You become a collaborator, an accomplice of your own murder, because you believe the same things they do.“ James Baldwin said.

And if we are honest, if we are truthful, if we are candid, some of us do.”

Dazzling, Beloved: A Sermon on Transfiguring and The Washing Society of Atlanta at Bethel AME, Lynn MA

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Lynn Sunday February 11, 2024 Rev. Laura Everett Transfiguration Sunday Mark 9:2-9 NRSV Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no …

Reaffirmation of Ordination Vows

A Reaffirmation of Ordination Vows for Rev. Steve Watson of Reservoir Church, North Cambridge Sunday October 1, 2023  (Adapted from the Episcopal Church and United Church of Christ) The clergyperson stands, as able. Leader: Dear friends, the ministry we share is none other than the sacrificial ministry of Christ, who gave himself up to death …