Sermons
Valiant for Truth (Guest Speaker: Melanie Mock)
Melanie Springer Mock is a professor of English at George Fox University, Newberg, Ore., an evangelical Friends institution, where she primarily teaches first-year writing, memoir, and journalism courses. She is also the author or coauthor of seven books, including one forthcoming in 2027, tentatively titled Whatever is True: Reflections on a Small Town, a School Board, and Hope for our Country’s Future (Fernwood Press, 2027). Her essays and reviews have appeared in Ms. Magazine, The Nation, Christian Feminism Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Runner’s World, and Inside Higher Education, among other places, and she is a regular reviewer for Anabaptist World. She is also a member of Christians For Social Action’s Pundits Circle. She lives with her husband in Dundee, Ore., and they have four grown children and three grandchildren.
Disruptive Generosity
Queries:
What is the invitation or challenge of this parable, to us?
What does this parable disrupt, for us, today?
What does this parable have to say to us about justice and generosity?
How will generosity help get us to where we need to be?
Love is Liberating
Queries:
What is most important to me about today’s scripture?
What are the stories that have helped clarify and sustain my mission?
How are we invited to sustain the Quaker commitment to liberation?
How have I experienced or practiced liberation?
Intro to Extended Open Worship
Queries:
What sustaining practices do I encounter in this text? What feels most timely, for us?
What is sustaining me—my body, mind, and heart—in this season?
What is sustaining my community and my relationships with others?
What—negatively—is sustaining cruelty and violence in our world?
What—positively—is sustaining my efforts to do good in the world?
In what ways am I, even in some small way, sustenance for others?
I Appeal to You, Friends
Query:
What points in today’s scripture or message do I need—in this time of silence and open worship—to underscore, supplement, illustrate, or apply, to potentially help those of us gathered deepen our practice of Love?
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