Tuesday Highlights (May 16)

Homiletics2023 is off to a great start in Minneapolis AND wherever you are joining from!

Comet the cat isn’t sure about this whole #homiletics2023 thing, but his human is loving Bishop Curry’s words about trees and being in relationship with creation pic.twitter.com/oYAsEo5szg

— Sarah Fanning (@revsmf) May 16, 2023

At #Homiletics2023 virtually from #LosAngeles where #pomegranates are in bloom💐💝 https://t.co/NUo0AwNzKR pic.twitter.com/dcEUQSW8k3

— Leah Sophia 🇺🇦 & Roxy 🐱Kitteh☀️ (@suntreeriver) May 16, 2023

Today she taught us: "Mitakuye Oyasin" – it is our prayer this afternoon. We are related to everything, and everything is related to us. 💞#Homiletics2023 pic.twitter.com/ivbRSp2aH7

— Alexis Twito 🇺🇦 (@ATwitoRev) May 16, 2023

Emcee Dawn Hand (at Westminster) encouraged everyone at that venue before praying for Anna Carter Florence, to pause and greet those participating online: 

Whose preaching or teaching is feeding your spirit already?

From the Hopin chat: 

Thanks be to God for Michael Curry AMEN

Such balm

Terrific to hold up this lens for us preachers to view our preaching commitments! THANK YOU, Dr. Karoline! 

Somebody is finally putting words to “pastoral care from the pulpit”.

Man! There was a ton of information in that!!

Prayers and great thanks to Jay’s wisdom

Wonderful inspiring preaching in the spirit! 

Anna – thank you so much. I’m moved. And I have lots of notes. Thanks.

MY BRAIN IS GOING TO EXPLODE

Say it, Dr. Veronice Miles! What if…?

She’s got me cryin’ up in here….

a jam-packed lecture – will look forward to hearing it over again with the recording.

Prophetess!

Thank you, Bishop!

Maybe we preach unconditional love and forgiveness because we know we sure need it, I know I do. Thank you Rev. Dr. Skinner for this sermon.

Karoline Lewis (Westminster)

“The Jesus movement was a movement of the colonized.” 

“Christianity didn’t start as a theology of the powerful but a theology of the powerless.”

“When we ignore real bodies, does the Word made flesh really matter?” – Dr.Karoline Lewis

Bishop Michael Curry (Central) 

Great line from Bishop Michael Curry – “the bishop is meeting with Jesus. One of them has his eyes closed”#homiletics2023

— Sarah Fanning (@revsmf) May 16, 2023

How do I begin to express my joy with being in the presence of the Most Rev. @PB_Curry ?? #Homiletics2023 pic.twitter.com/ut8bJ73wK4

— Cana Moore (@CanaMoore) May 16, 2023

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, we will have peace.” @PB_Curry invoking Jimi Hendrix in his moving sermon at #Homiletics2023 pic.twitter.com/eWlTswqNOk

— Pulpit Fiction (@PulpitFpodcast) May 16, 2023

“It is only through love that we shall overcome: ‘when the power of love is greater than the love of power, then the world shall know peace,’ lots of folks said that, but I first heard from Jimi Hendrix…either it way sounds like Jesus.” The Most Rev Michael Curry #Homiletics2023 pic.twitter.com/Ny1hSrrHv5

— Asa David Coulson (@KingAsa) May 16, 2023

“The Holy Spirit is a wildfire, not a controlled burn!” 

Bishop Michael Curry 

“Don’t underestimate the power of witness”

When we speak up and stand up there is the possibility that evil will shut up! Amen

#Itsintheroots

The paschal mystery isn’t lived sequentially… but existentially.
Sometimes we live Good Friday and Easter Sunday at the same time. @PB_Curry @FestHomiletics #Homiletics2023

— Amanda McCaffery (@ahuntsbe128) May 16, 2023

The first instinct is to respond to the environment itself. But no, go deep – listen to the lesson of the tree. Go deep. So deep that nothing on the surface can overcome you. Key is found in the depth, not on the surface. Go on Bishop!

The Paschal mystery is no longer experienced sequentially, but rather existentially. Sometimes Good Friday & Easter Sunday are happening at the same time. “These may be the best of times & worst of times at the same time & such is the nature of life.” @PB_Curry #Homiletics2023

— RevEpiscoDad (@RevEpiscoDad) May 16, 2023

Jay Augustine 

America is plagued by an epidemic of otherism – Dr Jonathan C Augustine #Homiletics2023

— Rev. Dr. Ramona Hayes (@PastorRamona) May 16, 2023

Anna Carter Florence 

"Jesus pushes the limits by staging his own church lock-in" – Anna Carter Florence at #Homiletics2023 speaking about Jesus' experience in the temple when he was 12 😆

— Rev. Laura Phillips (she/her) (@RevLAP) May 16, 2023

Rolf Jacobson and Tripp Fuller 

Veronica Miles

Phew! Veronice Miles bringing the HEAT this afternoon at @FestHomiletics. #Homiletics2023 #WeAreImagoDei #EmbodiedHope #FearlesslyHopeFilled pic.twitter.com/X1JsO1j6kF

— Adam Gordon ☩ (@nodroglmada) May 16, 2023

“For much of Christian history we have been engaged in a pedagogy of forgetfulness.” – Veronice Miles @FestHomiletics #Homiletics2023 pic.twitter.com/vuXLIsRZBK

— RevEpiscoDad (@RevEpiscoDad) May 16, 2023

Bishop Yvette Flunder

You don’t believe in biblical marriage. You believe in bible bookstore marriage, which is a very different thing. @bishop_flunder @FestHomiletics #Homiletics2023

— Amanda McCaffery (@ahuntsbe128) May 16, 2023

Mihee Kim-Kort

The power of the Risen Christ doesn't deal in the currency of imperial powers, and it doesn't deal in currency at all!– Mihee Kim-Kort #Homiletics2023

— Cana Moore (@CanaMoore) May 16, 2023

Matt Skinner

The Rev. Dr. Matt Skinner preaches for us this afternoon @FestHomiletics, "Mercy: You Can Never Get Enough."

"Mercy isn't mercy if it isn't shared widely." And God's mercy will pursue us, hunt us down. #Homiletics2023

— Alexis Twito 🇺🇦 (@ATwitoRev) May 16, 2023

Join us tomorrow for more wisdom, inspiration and prophetic calls to action!