Rev. Natalie Webb’s Easter Sermon from April 17, 2022.
“Many of you have stories of resurrection - resurrection from addiction, new life you’ve experienced after coming out, the reconciliation of relationships thought long dead, or the death of abusive relationships and the resurrection and healing that has followed, the courageous rising up of assault survivors, the way your kid or your friend comes to life with gender affirming care. So many of you have experienced, in your own ways, resurrection power. And it’s not any less true because people don’t believe it. Tell your stories, friends, the Resurrection is for you!”
Rev. Natalie Webb’s sermon, “We Are Fragile,” from April 3, 2022.
“Christianity doesn’t offer us an escape from death, it offers us a way through it together. One thing that Christians can offer to the world, and I think to our world in particular, is a way to grieve, a way to face the reality of the world and meet it with extravagant acts of love. Useless acts of love. Inefficient acts of love. Unimaginable wastes of time hearing old stories at bedsides and building imaginative worlds with children and long lunches with friends and pouring out resources with no return-rate, scandalizing the world by the way we insist it is loved loved loved, by us and by God.”
Rev. Natalie Webb’s sermon, “Emerging from the Wilderness,” from June 13, 2021.
“We are introduced to Hagar in Genesis 16, when Sarah, who was unable to have children, offered her up to Abrahama as a surrogate. While it is tempting for religious people to sweep this story under the rug or sanctify it with God-talk, I want to be clear: This is a story of domestic and sexual violence. If we can’t call it out for what it is in our holy texts, how will we call it out in our pews (and in our pulpits)?”
Rev. Milo Grant’s Pride sermon, from August 21, 2022.
“Beloveds, we stand here today to proudly proclaim that we do not accept the lies cast by distorted agendas of hate and bigotry. We, as a faith community and as an unbound people, refuse to shackle ourselves to the shadows. We, who know the truth that our God is a consuming fire compelling us towards love, justice, and respect of all human dignity, stand firmly beside a queer legacy of inclusion, revolution, and resistance. So to the world frozen by hate, this is your warning. We are here. We are queer. And we are compelled by a burning love that will never cease to blaze. We are University Baptist Church. We are rooted in a faith older than your hate. We are progressive in action spurred on by love. And we will not go quietly into the night. For indeed, our God is a consuming fire.”
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