Pastor Liz
Emmaus Moments | Luke 24:13-35
I'm trying something new. I'm a little nervous about it, but I've started recording my reflections or sermons each week. It seemed...
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Pastor Liz
Apr 20, 20179 min read
Lynching & Resurrection | Easter
This is a two-part sermon told in sacred story and reflection. I've included selected text of the Common English translation. Mark...
Pastor Liz
Apr 11, 20177 min read
#Resistance | Palm Sunday
There were two very different kinds of processions in the city that week, one right after the other. One involved pom and circumstance,...
Pastor Liz
Apr 4, 20175 min read
Ruah | Ezekiel 37:1-10 and Romans 8:6-9
Have you ever stood outside in a field or in the forest and felt the breeze dance around you, rustling leaves and your hair? Have you...
Pastor Liz
Mar 26, 20175 min read
Spiritual Sight | John 9
“I have come into the world to exercise judgment so that those who don’t see can see and those who see will become blind.” - John 9:39...
Pastor Liz
Mar 8, 20172 min read
Women: Wild & Holy
In the church cycles and seasons the color red symbolizes the presence of the Holy Spirit. Representative of tongues of fire, the season...
Pastor Liz
Feb 24, 20172 min read
You are stardust and to stardust you shall return.
We remember that life is begotten from stardust, radiant in light and heat. We are all one - all of creation, all that now live, all that...
Pastor Liz
Feb 13, 20174 min read
Love God, Love Neighbor | Isaiah 58
A century and a half ago, as he led the faith-rooted struggle against slavery in America, Frederick Douglass wrote, "Between the...
Pastor Liz
Dec 19, 20164 min read
Incarnation | Advent 4
There are some theological concepts that I shy away from because I’m not sure what I believe about them myself. I don’t always feel...
Pastor Liz
Dec 13, 20165 min read
Mary Did You Know? | Advent 3
We’ve spent the first weeks of Advent in the first testament of the bible looking at the prophetic words, the visions told by Isaiah that...
Pastor Liz
Nov 24, 20162 min read
Gratitude
In the winter I am writing about, there is much darkness. Darkness of nature, darkness of event, darkness of the spirit. The sprawling...
Pastor Liz
Nov 10, 20162 min read
Lament
I’m angry friends. I’m heartbroken and angry. I am not ready to “get to work”. I am not ready to “dust myself off”. I am not ready to...
Pastor Liz
Nov 8, 20165 min read
Anxiety & Faith | Matthew 5:1-16
This week has felt dark. This past week before the time changed felt so dark. The days and days of rain certainty aren’t helping, it was...
Pastor Liz
Oct 31, 20166 min read
WWJD + Standing Rock
When I was young in the late 1990’s among my rather conservative christian friends WWJD, what would Jesus do, became a popular motto....
Pastor Liz
Oct 26, 20161 min read
Becoming the Beloved Community | Bethany Chapel October 26, 2016
As a part of Bethany Theological Seminaries fall preaching series, I was asked to share about WildWood Gathering and where we see the...
Liz Ullery Swenson
Aug 17, 20161 min read
Live from the GooseCast Stage
In July I spent five days in the sticky-humid mountains of North Carolina attending Wild Goose Festival, a spirituality, faith and social...
Liz Ullery Swenson
Aug 11, 20162 min read
Marching the Stars
Each August my family and I head up to Mt. Rainier to see the Perseid meteor shower. This year it's supposed to be extra spectacular and...
Liz Ullery Swenson
Jul 16, 20166 min read
Who Is My Neighbor? | Luke 10:25-37
As we drove up the winding two-lane road an hour outside of Asheville North Carolina, I was prepared to loose cell phone reception. I had...
Liz Ullery Swenson
Jun 24, 20168 min read
Fruits of the Spirit | Sharing Divine Love
While WildWood is Christian leaning, we are not exclusive. And we certainly don’t expect you to profess any particular beliefs to be a...
Liz Ullery Swenson
Jun 13, 20162 min read
Sanctuary
Last week at a Christian conference one of the evening worship services took on a spirit all its own. While it was meaningful for many,...
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