Sermon Prep and Lectionary Prayers for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C Discipleship, Lectionary Reflections, Liturgical Prayers, nonviolence, Pacific Activism, Peacemaking, Refelctions, Semon Preparation, Year CMichael HowardJuly 12, 2016God's love, Lectionary Prayers, Liturgical Calendar, Love, Pacifism, peacemaking, Prayers, Proper 11C, Repentance
Sermon Prep and Lectionary Prayers for the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C Discipleship, Lectionary Reflections, Liturgical Prayers, Martin Luther King, nonviolence, Peacemaking, Reflection, Year CMichael HowardJuly 5, 2016Anti-semitism, Bonhoeffer, Call to Worship, Ched Myers, Gustavo Gutierrez, Jesus, Lectionary Prayers, Liberation, Liturgical Calendar, Liturgy for peace in a violent world, Love, Love my neighbor, Luke 10, Nonviolence, Opening Prayer, peacemaking, Prayer of Confession, Prayers, Repentance, revised common lectionary, Simone Weil, the good samaritan, Violence, Words of Assurance, worship planning
To Whom Does Your Heart Belong? nonviolence, Peacemaking, Refelctions, Sermons, The GospelMichael HowardJune 22, 2016Authority, Discipleship, Kingdom of Heaven, Love, Pacifism, peacemaking, Repentance, Revelation, Revelation 5, Sacrifice, The Lamb, Worship
A season of promise and the lie of a crossless grace RefelctionsMichael HowardApril 17, 2016Bonhoeffer, Discipleship, Easter, God's Promises, Ignacio Ellacuría, James Cone, Liberation Theology, Repentance, Steve Schallert, strange fruit, The Cross, the cross and the lynching tree
May it be said of you: Bonhoeffer on the death of the city and the conversion of the Church Creation Care, Discipleship, Semon PreparationMichael HowardApril 11, 2016Bonhoeffer, Repentance
Dear future humanity: please forgive us. Biophilia, Creation Care, Links to things that m...Michael HowardApril 2, 2016Bookchin, Ecclesiology, Ecology, Ethics, Murray Bookchin, Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Repentance, Social Ecology
Trees Biophilia, Discipleship, Pacific Activism, PeacemakingMichael HowardMarch 14, 2016Creation Care, Repentance, Trees
The Repentant Church's Non-Triumphal Witness Michael HowardMarch 8, 2016Bonhoeffer, chruch, community, confession, Discipleship, Ethics, Jennifer McBride, Jenny McBride, Politics, Repentance, triumphalism, Wheaton Theology Conference, Witness
Vineyard Tales (Matthew 21:33-46) Creation Care, Sermons, The Gospel, Year AMichael HowardOctober 5, 2014A Faith Embracing all Creatures, Anti-semitism, Carol Adams, Charlie Brown, domination, dominion, Genesis 1:26, Genesis 3, Holocaust, John Chrysostom, Lucy, Matthew 21, Matthew 21:33-46, metanoia, Never Again, Peanuts, Repentance
A difficult text to preach: Ched Myers and the Parable of the Tenants In all honesty, the text for this coming Sunday, Matthew 21:33-46, is quite a difficult one to preach. Read More Semon PreparationMichael HowardSeptember 29, 2014Ant-Semitism, Ched Myers, Discipleship, Matthew 21:33-46, Parable of the Tenants, Repentance, The UNking
"Faith and Fratricide": A repentant response RefelctionsMichael HowardAugust 31, 2014Anti-semitism, Christian Triumphalism, Judaism, Prophetic Tradition, Repentance