Tag: Faith
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Misericordias Domini (2nd Sunday After Easter) ~ 14th April 2024
The following sermon was not an easy one for me to write, and I’m still not sure how much I like it or how happy I am with it. But I got a fair bit of positive feedback from women from both congregations where I preached this past Sunday. One thing in particular stuck with…
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Sermon – Last Sunday After Epiphany 2024
I don’t know about you, but these days I feel as if there is a heaviness weighing on everything and everyone. Two young people violently lost their lives these past few days. The press conference about the “ForuM-Studie” on Thursday. The neverending images of war, violence, and death in Gaza, the Ukraine, the Sudan, and…
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When Hope Seems Lost…
It’s Friday night and I am sitting here on my couch in the comfort and safety of my four walls. It feels like the weight of the world is resting in my shoulders. 2024 is barely a month old. Yet so much has already happened. More than I can keep track of. The war in…
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Good Friday Sermon
Yesterday everything had seemed fine. We were sitting around a table with Jesus and shared a meal. We were happy and I was convinced that everything would remain like this forever. But suddenly Jesus started to talk about his own death again. I didn’t want to hear that. I didn’t want to think about what…
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“You are wonderfully made.”
[Translation of my part of the sermon for the “Queerer Gottesdienst” (Queer Service) on September 06, 2022. The theme of the whole service was bisexuality.] Bisexuality. A term that seems to be firmly rooted in binaries. And for a long time that was exactly the case. Being bi meant nothing more or less than being…
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When Trauma Memories Hit You Out Of The Blue
On my way home from work today a trauma memory resurfaced when I drove past an accident on the highway. Police and fire brigade were already there and either an ambulance hadn’t been needed (what I doubt) or it had already left. So I didn’t stop, but slowly passed in the lane furthest from the…
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Altruism, Charity and COVID Regulations
The past year has been a very difficult one. And not only because of COVID. Though that certainly added its own layers of problems to my, and everyone else’s, life and made certain things even more complicated, stressful, and uncomfortable than they would have been anyway. For example the almost complete disregard to my feelings…
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Good Friday – Karfreitag
The English name for this days focuses on the hope and the good that came from the darkness. The German name is very different. As so many words in my native language this noun is made of two nouns (fun side note: in German you can add an indefinite number of nouns together to create…
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Work, Family and Self-Care
As I write this we are two days away from the beginning of Holy Week. Next Friday is Good Friday (I still don’t get why it’s called that in English). And then on Sunday: Easter. I love this time of year. Both from a faith perspective and because it’s spring and I just love how…