C04: The Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year C (2018)
December 17, 2018
Popular preacher, author, and retreat leader MaryAnn McKibben Dana takes a second look at “Gentle Mary, meek and mild,” and finds some thunder in her voice. The words of the Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55) have very...
B04: The Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year B (2014)
December 17, 2017
MaryAnn McKibben Dana is a writer, speaker, pastor, and the author of Sabbath in the Suburbs: A Family’s Experiment with Holy Time. An avid student and champion of improvisational theater, she prides herself on her...
C04: The Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year C (2015)
December 20, 2015
The Rev. MaryAnn McKibben Dana preaches this Sunday’s assigned reading from Luke 1:39-45, sometimes blandly titled: “Mary Visits Elizabeth.” But there is nothing bland about this visit. Mary has just received life changing news from...
B50: The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2015)
November 11, 2015
MaryAnn McKibben Dana is a sought-after speaker, preacher, conference leader, and writer, specializing in issues of leadership, faith formation, technology, and congregational transformation. This week she preaches a sermon based on Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17. What does...
B44: The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2015)
September 27, 2015
Brian McLaren, speaker, activist, and bestselling author of More Ready Than You Realize, We Make the Road by Walking, The Great Spiritual Migration, and, most recently, Faith After Doubt, preaches on Mark 9:38-50. McLaren begins...