C04: The Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year C (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)
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)
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)
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)
Brian McLaren, speaker, activist, and bestselling author of Faith after Doubt, Do I Stay Christian?, and, most recently, Life after Doom, preaches on Mark 9:38-50. McLaren begins by explaining the migration of humans from their...